Gravity pulls us to Earth, a lesson you learn viscerally the first time you fall. Isaac Newton described gravity as…
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On Thursday, 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut down…
NASA will soon launch a new telescope which it says will create the “most colourful” map of the cosmos ever made. The…
At some point, after picking up a telescope (and sticking with it) you’ll wonder if a more expensive telescope provides…
You may not know it, but right now there’s a huge cosmic rave party happening far, far above our heads.…
One of the more annoying things about astronomy is the amount of learning involved before taking part. It’s not just…
The folks who make up Stuff are all nerds in one way or another. Some enjoy movies, some are keen…
The world of amateur astronomy is slowly undergoing several changes. One of these is the advent of smarter telescopes, offering…
Every so often, astronomers glimpse an intense flash of radio waves from space – a flash that lasts only instants…
When you think of space telescopes, the SuperBIT program from the University of Toronto in Canada probably doesn’t come to…