Some stars just get unlucky. There are billions of stars within a typical galaxy. Yet once every 100,000 years or…
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South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope array has already amassed quite a string of feats. It has provided new information about…
The European Space Agency made history last week with the announcement of the first “parastronaut”, 41-year-old UK citizen John McFall.…
The night sky is a shared wilderness. On a dark night, away from the city lights, you can see the…
If you’ve recently watched the night skies, you’ve probably spotted something that looks way too bright to be a natural…
SpaceX unleashes a Dragon This weekend saw the launch of Space X’s Dragon spacecraft, which arrived at the International Space…
Since the first planet orbiting a star other than the Sun was discovered in 1995, we have realised that planets…
Neil Armstrong took his historic “one small step” on the Moon in 1969. And just three years later, the last Apollo astronauts…
On July 31 2013 a constellation of US defence satellites saw a streak of light over South Australia as a rock from…
NASA does a fly-by After months of trying (and failing) to get the Orion Rocketship out of Earth’s orbit, NASA…