The VLT gears up to look for alien planets in Alpha...
Breakthrough Initiatives and the European Southern Observatory announced on Monday an agreement to upgrade the instruments of the organization’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in...
Area’s geology and Southern Ocean lead to Antarctica’s ice-level increase
Tackling Climate change effectively is a daunting task ahead of scientists all over the world. According to NASA experts, ice-levels in Antarctica keep on...
NASA releases stunning images of ‘Cloudy’ Mars from Hubble Space Telescope
For a period of about 11 days starting from the 19th of this month until the 30th, Mars will be closest to the Earth...
Meteorite Crashes through Roof and Lands on a Sleeping Woman’s Pillow
A woman almost got killed by a meteorite that smashed through her roof and landed on her pillow. Ruth Hamilton, a resident of Golden, British...
Watch: Stephen Hawking explains what happened before the Big Bang
Famed physicist Stephen Hawking guest starred on Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s talk show to be interviewed about what came before the beginning of the universe,...
This Lithium-Ion battery has a built in fire extinguisher
A research team from Stanford University released a document detailing their experiments with the flame retardant triphenyl phosphate (or TPP). They plan to include...
Ross 128 b is the latest promising alternative to Earth
A group of scientists from five different countries has announced on Wednesday the discovery of a new exoplanet just 11 light years away from...
Scientists spot a strange smile-shaped wave in Venus
Astronomers spotted a strange wave over the surface of Venus yesterday with the help of Japan's Akatsuki spacecraft. The scientific community has its eyes on...
NASA launches TESS spacecraft to look for planets beyond our galaxy
After the launch of NASA’s planet-hunting spacecraft, Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) on Wednesday, on top of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral....
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...