NASA’s MAVEN satellite avoids collision with Martian moon
On Tuesday, the team responsible for NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft announced they had to perform an emergency maneuver to steer clear of Phobos, one of...
SpaceX Calls Off Launch of 143 Satellites Due to Bad Weather...
Bad weather led to the cancellation of the Falcon 9 rocket carrying a payload of 143 satellites from being launched over the weekend. SpaceX...
Fossil footprints suggest humans used to hunt giant sloths
A newly discovered fossil shows that about 11,000 years ago, giant 7-feet tall (2.1 meters) sloths roamed the earth while being stalked by ancient...
Paleontologists reconstruct a 250-million-year old Aquatic reptile!
Taking cues from a 250-million-year old fossil, scientists have reconstructed a reptilian skull of an extinct Aquatic animal. The skull has been constructed by...
Scientists create fake news ‘vaccine’ against misinformation
A group of scientists from Cambridge, Yale, and George Mason University has developed a ‘vaccine’ to combat fake news. Results of their study show...
Prepare for the Great American Eclipse: Map and suggestions
Exactly one year from today on Monday, on August 21, 2017, 12 states of the United States will be able to experience the first...
Scientists Demystify Remains of Long-Necked Water Creature That Lived 242 Million...
Scientists have demystified the fossils of a strange water creature with a very long neck that lived 242 million years ago. The remains of...
ESO’s latest Earth-like exoplanet discovery launches debate
Last week, astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) announced the discovery of an Earth-like exoplanet near Earth. Named Proxima Centauri b, it orbits...
Orangutan discovery overshadowed by impending extinction
A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and Liverpool John Moores University in the U.K. announced the discovery of a new great...
Dark matter remains to be detected after massive search ends
UK – Earlier today, spokesmen of the LUX project announced that their dark matter detector has failed in finding the puzzling particles after 20 months...