Lyrid meteor shower will peak on Tuesday with up to 15 shooting stars per hour 

Lyrid meteor shower 2020 coincides with a new moon on Tuesday giving stargazers especially dark skies to watch the celestial spectacle – with up to 15 shooting stars visible per hour The Lyrid meteor shower comes to skies in the Northern Hemisphere this month  Experts say the peak will be between April 21-22 at the … Read more

Lombardy will start 20,000 antibody tests a day from Tuesday to detect coronavirus immunity

The Italian region of Lombardy says it will start performing 20,000 coronavirus immunity tests per day from next Tuesday.  Officials say the ‘reliable’ tests have been developed at a research hospital near Milan and will start being offered to health workers next week.  The government of the hard-hit region says the tests will ‘certify immunity … Read more

Next says it will start selling online again on Tuesday

Clothes retailer Next says it will reopen its online store TODAY after ‘reworking’ its warehouse following worries from staff that they were at risk of catching coronavirus Retail giant closed its online operations in late March in wake of coronavirus  It is now accepting a ‘limited number of orders each day’ from online store   Bosses … Read more

‘Micro New Moon’ to form an invisible dot in the sky on Tuesday

The moon will reach its furthest point away from the Earth in its elliptical orbit this week, in a rare event called a ‘micromoon’.   A micromoon is the opposite of the supermoon, when the Moon appears bigger and fuller in the sky than normal due to its proximity to Earth.  This New Moon phase will … Read more

EasyJet joins Ryanair to ground majority of its fleet from next Tuesday amid coronavirus travel ban

EasyJet has become the latest to announce that it will be grounding the majority of its fleet in response to the growing number of coronavirus travel bans. The airline stated that the new measures will take effect from Tuesday. It will operate rescue flights ‘as required to repatriate customers’ and will continue to run a ‘minimal … Read more

EasyJet joins Ryanair to ground majority of its fleet from next Tuesday amid coronavirus travel ban

EasyJet has become the latest to announce that it will be grounding the majority of its fleet in response to the growing number of coronavirus travel bans. The airline stated that the new measures will take effect from Tuesday. It will operate rescue flights ‘as required to repatriate customers’ and will continue to run a ‘minimal … Read more