Astronomy

At the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Catharine A. Conley has a lofty job title: planetary protection officer. That conjures to mind shades-wearing Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones in the “Men in Black” movies.…

For about a decade, Joe Davis has been trying to send a message into space. This message is not intended for potential intelligent alien listeners, though. He’s already sent two signals into the void for…

Scientists have found a “lost” planet, in a breakthrough that could help us discover alien life. The planet is thought to be among hundreds of worlds that have gone missing and now can be discovered…

A huge flash of ultraviolet light has been spotted deep in the universe, and could potentially help illuminate some of the universe’s deepest mysteries. The discovery could help shed light on how stars come to…

ALIEN hunters believe they have spotted evidence of a large extraterrestrial on the Red Planet in what is being described as “undeniable proof” of life on Mars. Alien enthusiasts were sent into a frenzy when they…

STONISHING footage appearing to show dozens of black objects passing over the moon has sent the conspiracy world into meltdown. The clip – taken from the ground in the Russian capital of Moscow – shows the…

In June 2019, scientists discovered something strange buried 180 miles beneath the lunar surface. While the discovery does sound eerily similar to the beginning of Stanley Kubrick’s film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, scientists have a much…

Although we usually have a pretty good handle on all the different kinds of blips and blobs detected by our telescopes, it would be unwise to assume we’ve seen everything there is to see out…

Fifteen-year-old Marcus Reed snapped Saturn at 4am from his back garden He used a 102mm reflector telescope and an iPhone app to spot the planet Saturn’s rings around the planet can be clearly seen in…

Once every 53.5 days, NASA’s Juno probe screams over Jupiter’s cloud tops roughly 75 times as fast as a bullet. The spacecraft has used these high-speed flybys, called perijoves, to document the gas giant like…

For about four days, the radio waves would arrive at random. Then, for the next 12, nothing. Then, another four days of haphazard pulses. Followed by another 12 days of silence. The pattern—the well-defined swings…

So. You want to watch the eclipse on Monday and you think that you don’t need any of those “safety” eclipse glasses. That’s a fantastic way to cause permanent damage to your eyes. Unless the…

Fans of eclipses rejoice: 2020 has several lunar eclipses and two solar eclipses coming up. The first one will be an annular solar eclipse on June 21, the day after the Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. The path…