A full Strawberry Moon will grace UK skies tonight, coupled with a rare phenomenon not to be seen for almost 20 years. Stargazers in the northern hemisphere already spotted an almost full moon sitting very low in the sky on Tuesday, but the full peak of the moon will appear later. BBC Weather presenter Sophia...
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As the full moon rises on Wednesday night, clear skies are expected over large parts of England up to south-west Scotland. Cloud is forecast across Northern Ireland, north-west Scotland, the Western Isles and the south-west of England, lessening chances of getting a good view of the full Strawberry Moon. The Moon rises in the east...
Republic of Ireland forward Emily Murphy said you “dream” of goals like her late winner over Turkey after her first international goal secured a dramatic comeback victory as the race for top spot in Group B2 goes down to the final fixture. It was not going according to plan for Carla Ward’s side, who needed...
Georgina Rannard Climate and science reporter Kate Stephens and Tony Jolliffe BBC climate and science team Tony Jolliffe/BBC News The specs of dust must be kept free from contamination on Earth The first samples of Moon rock brought back to Earth in nearly 50 years have arrived in the UK – on loan from China....
China will let scientists from six countries, including the US, examine the rocks it collected from the Moon – a scientific collaboration that comes as the two countries remain locked in a bitter trade war. Two Nasa-funded US institutions have been granted access to the lunar samples collected by the Chang’e-5 mission in 2020, the...
Photographer Tony Harnett has said he is “over the moon” with his latest picture which has taken years to successfully capture. His photograph showing people seemingly being guided by moonlight over the summit of Yr Wyddfa, or Snowdon, has been attracting mountains of praise on social media. But it’s a photograph Tony said he had...
Emma Woollacott Technology reporter Intuitive Machines Data centre firm Lonestar recently sent its test equipment to the Moon on this lunar lander It sounds like something from a science fiction movie, but Stephen Eisele is confident that one day his company will open a data centre on the Moon. “The way we see it is...