NASA honors Apollo 1 crew fallen 50 years ago
Hundreds of people gathered along with Kennedy Space Center workers to pay tribute to NASA’s Apollo 1 crew and other astronauts fallen in the...
2016 on its way to become hottest year ever, says UN
United Nations – The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) stated on Thursday that according to data gathered on the first half of 2016, the current...
Scientists want to transform sidewalks into giant batteries
Researchers from the California Energy Commission are carrying out two pilot studies on piezoelectric crystals, a type of technology that can capture vibrations produced...
Scientists pinpoint the source of a Fast Radio Burst
Last Wednesday, The Cornell Chronicle reported that a group of scientists had discovered the source of a mysterious radio signal, a phenomenon known as...
KIC 8462852, the star that can expand the known universe
A new study posted today on arXiv describes the results of a new photometric analysis of the star KIC 8462852. Carnegie Institute astronomer Joshua...
SpaceX news: Only mother nature could delay Falcon 9 launch
SpaceX is going to launch its Falcon 9 rocket on Monday, carrying 10 Iridium communication satellites. The spacecraft will lift off at 1:22 p.m...
Harvard expert discovers LHS 1140b, a “habitable” exoplanet
Scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a new exoplanet named LHS 1140b. This ‘super-Earth’ orbits a red dwarf just 39 light years...
Neither Worm Nor Snake, Caecilians Have Mouths That Can Deliver Venomous...
A study published by researchers in the journal iScience has revealed that caecilians have mouths that can deliver venomous bites. Caecilians are neither worms...
Oculus Mission: ISS and Virtual Reality projects for 2017
Oculus worked along with three space agencies to create Mission: ISS. Mission: ISS allows the users of Oculus Rift to explore the International Space...
NOAA: GOES-16 Satellite starts sending HD photos of Earth
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released the first images of Earth taken by the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) on the agency’s Geostationary...