Astronomy

Nature is putting on a magnificent show across the country beginning on Saturday night. The August Perseids are a shower of shooting stars that occur when the Earth passes close to the debris of comet Swift-Tuttle.

Located in the western province of Denizli's Beyağaç district, Topuklu Plateau has started welcoming local and foreign astronomers to an international sky observation event scheduled to take place from June 11 to 14.

The latest upgrade, 20 years since the opening of the New Digital Planetarium and almost 60 years since it opened its doors - The historical journey, the present and the goals for the future of the biggest and best planetarium in the world

While parked ahead of a pause in duties for the Mars solar conjunction, Curiosity put its Hazcams to another use

For astronomers peering into the depths of the universe, Christmas came a little early this year.

The astronomical summer begins in Bulgaria at 5:57 p.m. today, when it is also the summer solstice, according to the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (NIMH).

The fish market in the southern province of Hatay's İskenderun district, which faced massive destruction in the deadly Feb. 6 quakes, has reopened its stalls with the completion of renovation works.

The fish market in the district's center was mostly destroyed in the twin earthquake that jolted the country's southern provinces in early February.

Astronomers said on May 12 they have identified the "largest" cosmic explosion ever observed, a fireball 100 times the size of our Solar System that suddenly began blazing in the distant universe more than three years ago.

On May 5, amateur astronomers will be able to track the second eclipse of the year and the first lunar eclipse from the Earth's penumbra.

Earlier this year, astronomers announced that a tiny world beyond Neptune with a diameter about one-third that of Earth's moon possessed a Saturn-like ring that should not be there. It now turns out that there are two such "impossible" rings.