Where are the comets? Ever since we started recording the arrival of comets in our skies, we could count on there being a remarkably bright and impressive show every twenty years or so. We are now in a comet drought. Waiting for the next big one. Any day now!

Do we have a launch date? The mission to send humans back to the Moon seems to be on hold right now.

Exoplanets… the Latest The new trick question in Astronomy; ‘How many planets are there?’ Turns out there are hundreds, with more being discovered all of the time.

More solar system moons Time was, there were only a couple of dozen known moons orbiting the planets of our solar system. With better instrumentation and fancy new space telescopes, that number has grown considerably.