TV space boffin Brian Cox has been given a "rocket up the arse" by BBC bosses for urging members of his audience to change channels. Cox was presenting the second episode in BBC2's three-night astronomy spectacular Stargazing Live with Irish comic...
London's astronomers are over the moon at the announcement that the London Borough of Ealing has been declared an International Dark-Sky Reserve. 'London is an international centre of excellence for numerous endeavours,' explained Mayor of London,...
Following the removal of Pluto's planet status by the International Astronomy Union in 2006, the dead orbiting body has received little respect. That is, until now. Discovered by the Hubbell telescope this past week, Pluto was found to have eviden...
Pasadena, Ca - Is a secret alien-hunting agenda behind Saturday's launch of NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory? Astrophysicists at the Agency's Jet Convulsion Laboratory have always rubbished claims that the red planet is a hollow structu...
Economists are turning to cosmologists to keep track of inflation, it is rising that fast. "It's going up so quickly," said Esme Duvet, economist for the London School of Economics Economy Department, "that we've been told that future economists w...
NASA - Astronomers have discovered a pair of supermassive black holes in the twisty, spiral brain of former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, NASA said Wednesday. Approximately 160 million light years from Earth, Ms. Palin is the nearest known such ph...
Science buffs are getting angry with the amount of contradictory twaddle being peddled from bemused so-called scientists these days. In the space of a few weeks we have been told that our moon was formed by the collision of two smaller moons mirac...
A massive glob of water 140 trillion times the volume of the earth's oceans was recently discovered 12 billion light years away surrounding a quasar in deep space. The revelation proves water is prevalent throughout the universe, even in its most...
Space - The Beeb's Sky At Fright presenter Sir Patrick Moore has blamed a gigantic storm in Saturn's atmosphere for lousy reception in the Delta Quadrant beyond Uranus. Captured on video by NASA'S Cassini probe the tempestuous swirling vortices ar...
Scientists fear that today's football match between Liverpool and Manchester United will not be seen by anyone. They are concerned that the game is so massive that no light will escape from Anfield - the home of Liverpool. Said a science inside...
Boffins working with deep space telescopes searching for the origins of the universe have made an unexpected discovery - an eddy in the space-time continuum containing millions of socks! The atronomers believe the discovery solves the ages-old que...
Horror in the UK this morning as astronomy call centres were swamped with calls relating that the the moon and the sun had actually collided within a minute of daybreak. There seems to be general agreement that the sun appears to have swallowed the m...
The first Lunar Eclipse for four hundred years to fall on a Winter Solstice has passed off without incident - so far. The last time that a full Lunar Eclipse occurred on a Winter Solstice was 1638. This heralded the start of a war between Scotland...
Area 51, Nevada - (Cool Yule News): NASA HQ sources said today a huge breakaway chunk of black opal from Halley's Comet has been detected orbiting the periphery of the moon. Its emergence comes ahead of the Winter Solstice lunar eclipse on Tuesd...
Star-gazing boffins trying to figure out how many stars there are in the sky have lost count. But according to an astronomy insider, they've issued a new estimate to cover up their gaffe. The space experts at Yale University last week said ther...
Alien technology experts fear reprisals against Earth from a newly-discovered "Super-Earth." The plant, GJ 1214b, is about three times larger than our planet but is the first such extra-solar body scientists have found with an atmosphere. Astro...
Thanks to deep space analysis and the identification of galaxies even further away than had ever been measured before, scientists now believe that there may be three times as many stars as previously thought. Astronomer and discoverer, Myron Neepe...
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