Nine billion years after the Big Bang the building blocks of the Solar System were present as a huge molecular cloud, several light years across. As parts of the cloud began to collapse there is stron..

You don’t need a telescope to see a lot of wonderful things in the night sky. For example five of the planets are often readily visible with the naked eye. There are lots of amazing things you ..

Since the dawn of time when man first looked up at the stars and planets and was awestruck by their beauty people have tried to understand their significance. This is the basic origin of modern astrol..

Aiming a telescope at the night sky has been one of my hobbies for quite a few years. Ever since I was a kid I spent many evenings gazing up into the Milky Way and wondered how many? How far away and ..

Astronomy has to be one the most humbling of all subjects to study. Just the thought of our universe, being like a grain of sand in a sandy shore of universes, is enough to make me want to crawl back..