A new planet discovery located 400 light years away in the constellation Cygnus has provided a new challenge to planetary formation models. Click to read more
BBC have announced that the Sky at Night will continue to be produced beyond the scheduled run ending in December 2013. Click to read more
Third night of my dark sky adventure at Namibia’s Sossusvlei Desert Lodge. Click to read more
A team led by scientists from Texas A&M University and the University of Texas at Austin have published the result of a new study of high red shift galaxies, detecting the most distant spectroscopically confirmed galaxy yet found at z of 7.51. Click to read more
Writing in the October 3rd, 2013 issue of Nature, J Michalski and J Bleacher propose that the Eden Patera Basin on Mars, previously categorised as an impact crater may in fact be the remains of a Super Volcano Click to read more
It has been reported in the last 24 hours that Comet C/2012 X1 has suddenly brightened by over 150 times from magnitude +14 to 8.5. Click to read more
An exciting new project worth several million dollars has been announced by astro-tourism operator, Earth & Sky located in Lake Tekapo in New Zealand’s IDA International Dark Sky Reserve. Click to read more
From Dusk till Dawn and a comic search for Comet ISON Click to read more
Ticket still available for this coming Sunday’s Astronomy Now Comet Conference in London. Click to read more
Sensational headlines have begun appearing in the popular press over the last 24 hours speaking of a newly discovered asteroid, designated 2013 TV135, which has a 1 in 63,000 chance of striking the Earth in 2032. Click to read more
