All winter long the great constellation Orion the Hunter has roamed our skies, with its bright belt of three stars in nearly ...

Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed of chunks of rock and ice like comets, dwarf planets, and random objects ...

From Manchester, the close approach will become visible at around 8.37pm (BST) about 30 degrees above the western horizon, according to In The Sky. From London, the pair will become visible at 9.24pm.

"The universe is filled with a range of three-body systems, including the closest stars to Earth, the Alpha Centauri star ...