Twenty Top Fun Facts About The Constellations
Learn About The Constellations! The word constellation comes from a Latin word meaning ‘set of stars’ and simply refers to a prominent group of stars on the celestial sphere that…
The Search For Extraterrestrial Life (Aliens) 👽
Is There Life Out There In The Solar System And Beyond? When you look up to the sky at night and see those millions of stars, knowing there are billions…
Timeline Of Major Human Astronomical Events
Astronomical History Human beings have always been fascinated with the heavens above. Since ancient times we believed it to be the mysterious realm of the gods. Early humans have also…
What Is A Lunar Eclipse And Why Do They Occur? 🌒
Passing Into Earth's Shadow Lunar eclipses occur when the Sun, Earth and the Moon are aligned (called a "syzygy") and the Moon moves into Earth’s shadow during the Full Moon…
Solar Eclipse – When The Moon Blocks The Sun! 🌒
Cosmic Alignments! Solar eclipses occur when the Sun, Moon and Earth are perfectly aligned when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth during the new moon phase of its…
Checkout The OSIRIS-Rex Asteroid Sample Return Mission
Asteroid Touch-And-Go The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is a unique sample return mission to the carbonaceous asteroid Bennu which is also a potentially hazardous asteroid that may hit Earth late next century.…
Rosetta Mission – First To Orbit & Land On A Comet!
Comet Chaser The Rosetta spacecraft is a European Space Agency (ESA) probe which travelled for 10 years to chase down Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko; said to be shaped like a giant rubber…
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter | Mapping The Moon
Revealing The Lunar Surface NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is an unmanned spacecraft in polar lunar orbit, which was designed to image the lunar surface to help identify if water-ice…
Deep Impact – Colliding With A Comet!
Comets Interior The Deep Impact mission, which deployed an impactor probe towards the comet Tempel 1 (and excavate material from its interior), was the first of its kind! The impact…
Stardust – The First Comet Coma Sample Return Mission!
Cosmic Dust, Comets Coma The Stardust mission to collect dust from the coma of comet Wild 2 during its close encounter (along with cosmic dust), and return it to Earth…