RIYADH: The Saudi Press Agency (SPA) recently captured an amazing sky event: the waning crescent moon lined up with Mars, Jupiter, Aldebaran, and the Pleiades star cluster. This celestial alignment was visible to the naked eye and could be seen from 2:30 am in the Northern Border region until dawn. The alignment of the waning […]
The night sky will bring an added treat this Halloween as it features a spectacle that has not occurred in nearly two decades. Halloween is shaping up much differently this year due to the coronavirus pandemic with some communities electing to cancel trick-or-treating to reduce the risk of the virus spreading from one household to another. […]
The atmosphere of Venus contains a gas that on Earth can be attributed to living organisms, scientists said Monday, a discovery the head of NASA called “the most significant development yet” in the hunt for extraterrestrial life. Conditions on our planetary neighbour are often described as hellish with daytime temperatures hot enough to melt lead […]
