As a follow-up to my last post about the relationship between the stars and luck, I thought I’d do another one exploring the theme of searching. As star-gazers, we spend a lot of our time searching. Astronomers believe that there are 100 thousand million stars in the Milky Way alone, with millions more galaxies beyond [...]

It was during a recent trip to Egypt, as I sat gazing up at the clear night sky, that I remembered the close link between astronomy and astrology. The constellation of Orion stared back at me, far brighter than I have ever seen it in the sky of my hometown of Manchester. With Gemini and [...]