Stargazers across a swathe of the world marvelled at a dramatic red “Blood Moon” during a rare total lunar eclipse in the early hours of Friday morning. A full lunar eclipse is seen during the Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse in Palm Springs, California, on March 13, 2025. (AFP) The celestial spectacle was visible in the…
Astronomers on Tuesday said that the asteroid designated 2024 YR4 had become the most likely sizable space rock ever forecast to impact planet Earth. The object, first detected in December, is 130 to 300 feet long and expected to make a very close pass of the planet in 2032. Its odds of impacting Earth on…
The most welcoming places on Earth for 2025 have been revealed – and it’s Sigiriya in Sri Lanka that’s No.1 overall, with Chester topping the ranking for the UK and coming 10th globally. The rankings have been drawn up by Booking.com, with entries identified based on the number of Traveller Review Awards each has. Sigiriya…
Peculiar electromagnetic bursts of energy known as “chorus waves” have been detected far from our planet for the first time by a China-led team of scientists, whose findings have raised new concerns about the risks for spacecraft and astronauts. The fluctuations originated about 165,000km (100,000 miles) from Earth – three times as far as any…
Hongkongers will have an opportunity to catch a glimpse of a rare comet passing by Earth in the coming week, three months after a similar sighting captivated the city’s stargazers. The Hong Kong Space Museum said Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) came closest to Earth on Tuesday and was gradually moving away. “If the weather permits…
Hongkongers will have an opportunity to catch a glimpse of a rare comet passing by Earth in the coming week, three months after a similar sighting captivated the city’s stargazers. The Hong Kong Space Museum said Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) came closest to Earth on Tuesday and was gradually moving away. “If the weather permits…
SpaceX, which owns the world’s fastest-growing satellite broadband network, Starlink, told the regulator that these “antiquated power restrictions” were unfit for “the modern space age”. It went on to charge that the international process governing the rules had been hijacked by an alliance between the operators of older, geostationary systems and “America’s staunchest adversaries”. At…
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The first rocky planet ever spotted orbiting a burned out star called a white dwarf offers a glimpse of what may be in store for Earth billions of years from now – showing it is possible our planet might survive the death of the sun, albeit as a cold…