Starwatch 11/12/23 It is time for the last major meteor shower of the year. One of the most active and reliable meteor showers, the Geminids…
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The alien hunter: has Harvard’s Avi Loeb found proof of extraterrestrial life?
Avi Loeb has a chip on his shoulder. For years, the Harvard astrophysicist has been trying to find aliens. He’s in the middle of trying…
View More The alien hunter: has Harvard’s Avi Loeb found proof of extraterrestrial life?Starwatch: Orionid meteor shower reaches its peak
The Starwatch chart for viewing the Orionid meteor shower from London on 21-22 October 2023 The Orionid meteor shower reaches the peak of its activity…
View More Starwatch: Orionid meteor shower reaches its peakAre aliens that bad at parking? What we need to ask about recent UFO revelations
Another day, another story about the US government hiding the fact that it has retrieved alien spacecraft. You can hear similar claims all the time…
View More Are aliens that bad at parking? What we need to ask about recent UFO revelationsFragments of ‘Valentine’s fireball’ meteorite fall in southern Italy
Residents of southern Italy’s picturesque and ancient “city of stone” have been gripped by another rocky phenomenon after a meteorite crash-landed on the balcony of…
View More Fragments of ‘Valentine’s fireball’ meteorite fall in southern ItalyResearchers discover two new minerals on meteorite grounded in Somalia
A team of researchers in Canada say they have discovered two new minerals – and potentially a third – after analysing a slice of a…
View More Researchers discover two new minerals on meteorite grounded in SomaliaFire in the sky: on the trail of space rocks with New Zealand’s meteorite hunters
It looks like a scene from a crime show as a search party in hi-vis jackets walks in formation, heads down, searching the brush for…
View More Fire in the sky: on the trail of space rocks with New Zealand’s meteorite huntersAuction kennel hit by meteorite sold for $44k at Christie’s auction
While billionaires are battling it out in a race to colonise the moon, mere stratospherically rich mortals on Earth were able to grab a small…
View More Auction kennel hit by meteorite sold for $44k at Christie’s auctionOut of this world: did Earth’s water come from icy comets and grains of space dust?
It covers three quarters of the surface of the Earth and gives our planet its distinctive blue complexion when viewed from outer space. But the…
View More Out of this world: did Earth’s water come from icy comets and grains of space dust?Rumbling meteor lights up Norway, prompting search for meteorites
An “unusually large meteor” briefly lit up southern Norway on Sunday, creating a spectacular sound and light display as it rumbled across the sky, and…
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