A Super Blood Moon and Lunar Eclipse will grace our skies next week

Look up next week! A Super Blood Moon and Lunar Eclipse will grace our skies as our natural satellite appears bigger and redder than usual The full moon that occurs in May is known as the Flower Moon as flowers bloom A total lunar eclipse is referred to as a Blood Moon due its more reddish … Read more

Pink Supermoon dazzles the early morning skies

Photographers have captured some stunning images of the ‘Pink Supermoon’, which illuminated global skies throughout the night on Tuesday.  April’s Pink Supermoon peaked at 04:31 BST on Tuesday (April 27), dazzling the night’s sky with a gentle shade of gold before it set in the west.  Eager photographers snapped stunning photos of the lunar phenomenon … Read more

Beijing’s skies turn orange and brown as sand and dust combine to form ‘severe’ pollution

Beijing’s skies turn orange and brown as sand and dust combine to form ‘severe’ pollution that has left people struggling to breathe The skies above Beijing turned orange as air pollution soared to severe levels & air quality index rose to 324 It worsened in the evening, exceeding 1,300 in some parts of the city, according … Read more

Business chiefs and MPs write letter to Boris Johnson urging him to speed up reopening our skies 

Business leaders last night united with MPs to plead with the Prime Minister to resume foreign travel. They warned that more than a million jobs were at risk if Boris Johnson failed to get Britain flying again. In letter to the PM, they said firms across the country faced devastation if planes were kept grounded. … Read more

Eyes to the skies for Super Worm Moon: Third full moon of the year is spotted over UK

Eyes to the skies for Super Worm Moon: Third full moon of the year is spotted over UK and will be at its biggest and brightest TONIGHT Tonight’s Super Worm Moon will be the largest and brightest of the year so far   The moon will be 100 per cent full and reach its peak at … Read more

‘Formula One of the skies’: World’s first FLYING race car unveiled with top speeds of 75mph

The world’s first flying race car has been unveiled – with top speeds of 75mph and ‘octocopter’ speeders that will see it compete in a new event later this year. Named Airspeeder, it will initially be flown by a remote pilot and can take off and land vertically, according to its developers Alauda Aeronautics.  Its … Read more

Air taxis to fill the skies over Florida following the construction of 10 ‘vertiports’

Air taxis to fill the skies over Florida following the construction of 10 ‘vertiports’ across the state for the aircraft powered by 36 jet engines with 186 mile range German aviation firm Lilium is opening 10 air taxi hubs across Florida The hubs will be built by Ferrovial SE, a Spanish infrastructure company The first … Read more

Discover the Moon, Mars…and moths at next month’s Virtual Dark Skies Festival

Discover the Moon, Mars… and moths: Join in with next month’s Virtual Dark Skies Festival and learn why darkness is crucial to the nation’s wildlife The theme of this year’s Dark Skies Festival, which runs from February 12 to 28, is Nature At Night  Experts will reveal science secrets from the North York Moors and … Read more

Russia QUITS Open Skies treaty which allows nations to carry out reconnaissance flights

Russia QUITS Open Skies treaty which allows nations to carry out surveillance flights and see if countries are preparing for war – two months after US withdrew Moscow announced it was pulling out of 1992 agreement observed by 34 states  Comes two months after the US quit the treaty, citing Russian breaches  Moscow said US … Read more

Asteroid that lit up the skies in 2008 ‘once contained water’

An asteroid that exploded in Earth’s atmosphere in 2008 was part of a much larger space rock that once contained water, a new study reveals.  The asteroid, called 2008 TC3, lit up the skies of Sudan in October 2008 and showered the ground with 600 meteorites, known collectively as Almahata Sitta.  After analysing a fragment of Almahata Sitta, US … Read more