A total lunar eclipse on the night of 7 September, 2025, was seen by 77% of the world’s population, or 6.2 billion people. This was from 18:30 till 19:52.WAT. Sky watchers in India, China and East Africa had a full Read More …
NASA continued to facilitate research work on the possibility of growing crops in space with the launch of Crew-11 to the International Space Station, ISS, on 1 August, 2025, with the Falcon 9 rocket. In the payload, launched from John Read More …
A US-based Nigerian, Owolabi Salis, travelled to sub-orbital space in Blue Origin’s NS-33 mission on 29 June, 2025, and made history as the first Nigerian in space. The mission took him and five others up to 105 kilometres into sub-orbital Read More …
Ax-4, Axiom’s fourth crewed flight to the International Space Station, ISS, was launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on June 25, 2025. It was earlier scheduled for June 11, but a liquid oxygen leak in the booster delayed the Read More …
Stars form, evolve and finally die. They form as huge amounts of Hydrogen atoms gather and, due to their own gravity, press together, heat-up and finally start “burning” in a nuclear process. They burn by nuclear fusion which makes the Read More …
Pope Leo XIV marked 56 years of human Moon landing on 20 June, 2025, with a visit to the Cupole of Vatican Observatory in the Apostolic Palace of Castle Gandolfo. The Pope looked through the telescopes and admired the heavenly Read More …
Nigeria has postponed its plans to build and launch a satellite on home soil. The National Space Research and Development Agency, NASRDA, said 2025 is no longer feasible due to financial constraints. The then Director General, Dr Halilu Shaba, was Read More …
Fasting is one of the five pillars of Islam. The others are: Belief in God and accepting Prophet Muhammad as the messenger, saying five prayers a day at affixed times, performing the Hajj pilgrimage and giving alms. Quran Chapter 2, Read More …
Satellite images from the 1970s to date show that Lake Chad, which provides economic livelihood to 30 million people, has shrunk by 90%. There is historical evidence of a Lake Mega Chad, about 1,000 years ago, connected to the Nile, Read More …
Six planets in our Solar System aligning, so that they can be seen in a line at once in the night sky, is a significant astronomical event. A planetary alignment forms when the planets appear as on same side of Read More …
