* Astronomy

The 25 - 55 metre wide asteroid 2015 RG83 will make a close pass (60.1 LD, 0.1544 AU) travelling at 4.52 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 19th September 2015 @ 19:07 UT ±01:41. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

Epsilon Lupi is a multiple star system in the southern constellation of Lupus. At an apparent visual magnitude of 3.41, Epsilon Lupi can be readily viewed from the southern hemisphere with sufficiently dark skies. Read more

The 21th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony The 2011 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony takes place on Thursday, September 29th at Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Ten (10) prizes will be awarded. The winners have a...

An astronaut in space just captured video of a 'blue jet' for the first time Blue jets, along with red sprites - a similar but distinct phenomena recently spotted in an image taken from the ISS - are enormous bursts of electrical discharge spiking upward from storm clouds in the upper atmosphere. Read...

A 7.9 magnitude earthquake shook the northern part of Chile today.

Comet 34D/Gale makes its closest approach to the Earth (0.428 AU) on the 30th May 2015 EphemerisDate UT R.A. (J2000) Decl. Delta r El. Ph. Mag 2015 05 29 000000 21 45 57.4 -28 47 15 0.429 1.214 107.5 52.8 2015 05 30 000000 21 51 32.6 -28 48 40 0.429 1.212 107.3 53.0 2015 05 31 000000 21 57 04.0 -28 49 28 0.429...

Meteor Over Alabama Brighter than Crescent Moon Spoiler Tonight, at 8:22:25 PM local time, NASA meteor cameras in north Georgia and western North Carolina detected a bright fireball over middle Alabama. First seen at an al...

Forty-Two years ago today, history was made when Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova, a Russian textile worker became the first woman in space. Valentina Tereshkova was born to a peasant famil...

Comet P/1999 XN120 (Catalina) makes its closest approach to the Earth (2.837 AU) on the 28th February, 2010. See more

Comet C/2015 B1 (PANSTARRS) is at Perihelion (5.976 AU) in the constellation Virgo on the 18th September 2015. EphemerisDate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase Mag 2015 09 15 11 54 58.5 -01 43 55 6.9695 5.9755 8.2 1.4 20.5 2015 09 16 11 55 41.5 -01 49 55 6.9712 5.9755 7.4 1.2 20.5 2015 09 17 11 56 24...

Comet 282P/2003 BM80 makes its closest approach to the Earth (3.017 AU) on the 29th July 2014 EphemerisDate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase Mag 2014 07 28 21 07 42.0 -23 26 13 3.0167 4.0202 169.8 2.6 2014 07 29 21 07 02.5 -23 28 38 3.0165 4.0217 170.6 2.4 2014 07 30 21 06 22.7 -23 31 01 3.0167 4.02...

Funky Light Signal From Colliding Black Holes Explained Entangled by gravity and destined to merge, two candidate black holes in a distant galaxy appear to be locked in an intricate dance. Researchers using data from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope hav...

Kylie Minogue will join Doctor Who on board the Titanic in a Christmas special, the BBC has announced. The Australian singer will mark her recovery from cancer with a leading role in the episode. Minogue, right, joins David Tennant for Voyage of the Damned, which starts filming in Cardiff next month...

Comet C/2014 Q6 (PANSTARRS) is at Opposition (3.876 AU) in the constellation Pegasus on the 17th September 2015. EphemerisDate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase Mag 2015 09 15 22 41 18.3 +31 53 43 3.8674 4.7097 143.0 7.4 19.2 2015 09 16 22 40 30.3 +31 55 27 3.8713 4.7133 143.0 7.4 19.2 2015 09 17...

TripleSat Constellation: New sharp-eye Surrey satellites see Earth The first images acquired by a new UK-built, high-resolution, Earth-observation constellation have been publicly released. The three spacecraft are owned and operated by Surrey Satellite Technology Limited, which is base...