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Although asteroids figure prominently in doomsday predictions, science-fiction stories and video games, most stargazers have never actually seen one with their own eyes.
This week you will get an excellent opportunity to observe one of the largest asteroids, Pallas, as it passes close to Earth. (Don’t worry — there is no chance the enormous space rock will hit our planet.)...

When it comes to name recognition, he’s no Stephen Elop (former CEO of Nokia), Alan Mulally (CEO of Ford) or even Julie Larson-Green (Executive Vice President at Microsoft). The new CEO of Microsoft, however, is a familiar face in the hallowed...

Water may be spouting from Jupiter’s icy moon Europa – considered one of the best places to find alien life in the Solar System.Images by the Hubble Space Telescope show surpluses of hydrogen and oxygen in the moon’s southern hemisphere...

If we’re lucky, then in just a few days time we could witness one of the most spectacular sights in the night sky for a generation or more.
Astronomers hope that on 3 December a comet will appear on the eastern horizon – Comet Ison.
For the whole month of December, millions of people across the northern hemisphere should be able to see its tail, which is several millions of kilometres long, stretching across the dawn sky. Ison has come from the Oort cloud, a belt of comets on the...