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A rare twin event of a supermoon and a partial lunar eclipse is set to grace skies. (Photo: AFP via Getty Images)

Rare supermoon and partial lunar eclipse set to grace skies

Moonrise next to Newcastle airport control tower on Sunday (18 Aug) evening.

How to view tonight's 'rare' blue supermoon

Aurora Borealis seen from the International Space Station

Aurora Borealis: Stunning timelapse shows northern lights in space

Music fans reveal their ultimate travel bucket list

Stunning images of the Northern Lights captured by Astro Dog from Dalby Forest.

Northern Lights may be visible this week

TV star Sian Welby revealed that her newborn daughter, Ruby, was delivered via an emergency C-section after her initial plans for a water birth fell through.

TV star gives birth via emergency C-section

Brits are being told to keep their eyes peeled for a Strawberry Moon this evening. Picture: Getty Images

How to see first full moon of summer from the UK

A woman has been charged with assault after a milkshake was thrown at Nigel Farage

Woman charged over milkshake assault

Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage reacts after a woman threw a drink over him, as he launches his election candidacy at Clacton Pier on June 4, 2024 in Clacton-on-Sea, England. The launch follows yesterday's announcement that Nigel Farage will stand as an MP in Clacton at the 4 July general election and takes over from Richard Tice as leader of Reform UK. The Conservative-held seat in Essex was the first to elect a UKIP MP in 2014, a party that Farage founded. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Nigel Farage attacked

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The Lyrid meteor shower 2024: your guide to spectacular views

The solar eclipse as seen from Dallas, Texas. The phenomenon was first seen in the Mexican resort town of Mazatlan. April 8 2024.

Total solar eclipse 2024: Spectacular footage of rare blackout

The July 2 eclipse of 2019, as seen from northern Chile. Picture: Getty/AFP

Watch total solar eclipse 2024 live

Muslims will celebrate Eid al-Fitr this week

Muslims to celebrate Eid al-Fitr this week 

A woman watches during the eclipse of August 2017 in Washington, DC (Photo: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Your guide to the solar eclipse - how to view

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8 April solar eclipse - how to safely witness the celestial spectacle

A composite photo of 12/Pons-Brooks comet, which passes Earth once every 71 years, taken in Kendal, Cumbria Picture: Stuart Atkinson/PA Wire

Once-in-a-lifetime comet to pass near Earth

The holy month of Ramadan is approaching in the UK. Picture: Future Publishing via Getty Images

What does Ramadan mean?

Everything you need to know about Ramadan including when it will start in the UK this year and what it means

Rahmah Ghazali

February will see a full moon as well as a new moon.

This when you can see the full moon in February

A full eclipse of the moon ends as the moon leaves the shadow of the Earth in September 2015 (Photo: Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

2024 lunar eclipses: which 'blood moons' will be visible from the UK?

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When is the next solar eclipse in the UK? Next total eclipse in 2024

A supermoon rises behind Glastonbury Tor in 2015 (Photo: Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

How to see 2024's Supermoons

The Wolf Moon of 2017 rising over Glastonbury Tor in Somerset (Photo: Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

What is a Wolf Moon? January full moon brings a bright start to 2024

The first full moon of the year will take place on January 25th.

January Wolf Moon: Where to see it and when it will take place

The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (Slim) came down on to the lunar surface at around 12.20am Tokyo time (1520 GMT). Picture: The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images

Unmanned spacecraft lands on moon

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Spacecraft will crash to Earth today

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Chinese New Year 2024: Year of the Water Dragon festivities explained

Nasa’s Artemis I Moon rocket sits at Launch Pad Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Centre, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 15 June 2022 (Photo: EVA MARIE UZCATEGUI/AFP via Getty Images)

What's happening with Nasa's Artemis Moon Mission?

Handout photo issued by United Launch Alliance (ULA) ahead of the launch of the ULA Vulcan VC2S rocket for Peregrine Mission One (PM1) from Cape Canaveral in Florida. (Image: ULA/PA Wire)

Peregrine suffers a loss of propellant’ ending private moon mission

The Vulcan rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Monday

Hiyah Zaidi

The Peregrine lander carrying the Peregrine Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer (PITMS), which will be onboard the Peregrine Mission One (PM1) (Image: Esa/Nasa/The Open University/STFC RAL Space/Astrobotic/PA Wire)

How the UK built instruments for Nasa's Peregrine Mission One mission

(Photo: CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Peregrine: the historic US Moon mission with UK tech onboard

The theory of Earth's defence has only just been proven but long theorised. Picture: Getty

Does the Earth have a natural defence against asteroids?

The Quadrantids meteor shower will light up skies this month (Image: Getty)

Astronomical events in January 2024 to look out for

Old Moore’s Almanac 2024 predictions include advancements in AI, an assisination warning for Donald Trump and a huge decline in birth rates. Composite image by NationalWorld/Kim Mogg.

Old Moore’s Almanac 2024 predictions list: what are they?

An artist rendering of the Cassini spacecraft entering orbit around Saturn. (Image: NASA)

'Organic molecules' spotted erupting from Saturn's moon Enceladus

Neil Armstrong steps into history July 20, 1969 by leaving the first human footprint on the surface of the moon. The 30th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon is being commemorated on July 20, 1999. (Image: NASA/Newsmakers)

Scientists argue the Moon is in a new epoch

This screen grab made from video footage from ISRO via AFPTV taken on July 14, 2023 shows an Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) rocket carrying the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft (Image: ISRO/AFPTV/AFP via Getty Images)

Chandrayaan-3 now circled the Earth after its historic moon mission

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is shown in a clean room at the Astrotech Space Operations facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 8 Dec 2022. DSOC’s gold-capped flight laser transceiver can be seen, near center, attached to the spacecraft. (Image: NASA/Ben Smegelsky)

Nasa receives a message from 10 million miles away

A Long March 5 rocket carrying China's Chang'e-5 lunar probe launches from the Wenchang Space Center on China's southern Hainan Island on November 24, 2020 Picture: STR/AFP via Getty Images

'Out of control' Chinese rocket causes 'unusual' crater on the moon

The night sky always offers something stunning (Image: YE AUNG THU/AFP via Getty Images)

Astronomical events to watch out for in December 2023

Full calendar of celestial events to look out for in 2024

The Sun is the star of our solar system (Image: NASA/Solar Dynamics Observatory via Getty Images)

Where would there be life in our solar system?

American astronaut Colonel Frank Borman, Commander of the Apollo 8 mission, leaves 10 Downing Street in London with his wife Susan after a visit to Prime Minister Harold Wilson (Image: Ted West/Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Apollo 8 astronaut Frank Borman dies aged 95

A blue supermoon rises behind the Royal Liver Building. Image: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Adding bacteria to lunar soil could help us live on the Moon

A Taurid meteor over lake Simcoe, Canada, with the aurora borealis shimmering below, on Nov. 9, 2015. (Image credit: Orchidpoet via Getty Images)

Taurid meteor shower expected this weekend

The International Space Station photographed by Expedition 56 crew members from a Soyuz spacecraft after undocking. Picture: NASA/Roscosmos

The ISS celebrates 23 years in space - everything you need to know

Earth’s Moon is thought to have formed in a tremendous collision. A massive object ― named Theia after the mythological Greek Titan who was the mother of Selene, goddess of the Moon ― smashed into Earth, flinging material into space that became the Moon. Credit: NASA

Mystery 'blobs' inside the Earth may explain how the Moon was made

The night sky. Picture: Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images

Must see astronomical events in November 2023

Classic song to be remixed by Majestic with a Bonnie Tyler sample

The moon is seen during a partial lunar eclipse in Caracas, on November 19, 2021. (Image: FEDERICO PARRA/AFP via Getty Images)

Partial Lunar Eclipse: date, times and what is the event explained

The moon is believed to have been created after a massive collision between the Earth and a Mars-sized object (Picture: Roslan Rahman/AFP via Getty Images)

The Moon is a lot older than originally thought, scientists say

A portion of the Chandrayaan-3's landing site, which is India's latest mission (Image: Isro)

India aims to put an astronaut on the Moon by 2040

Axiom Space says Prada will help it develop the spacesuits to be worn by NASA astronauts on Artemis missions. Credit: Axiom Space

Prada-Axiom collaboration to create spacesuits for Artemis 3 mission

October is also known as meteor season Picture: Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images

What to see in the night sky in October 2023

The Moon will appear in the sky in between Saturn and Jupiter (Photo: Getty Images)

How to spot the final supermoon of the year: the Harvest Moon

Journalists film the live telecast of spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 landing on the moon at ISRO's Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network facility in Bengaluru, India. Picture: AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi

Hopes of reviving India's Moon lander weaken as no signal is received

Europa or "Jupiter II" is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter, with this moon orbiting at about 417,000 miles from the gas giant.

A huge carbon source has been found on Europa

Satellites, planes and comets transit across the night sky under stars that appear to rotate above Corfe Castle (Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Top astronomical events in September - from equinox to new Moon