Venus to pass over Sun’s face: Once-in-a-lifetime planetary phenomenon
A very important planetary event is due to occur on 5 and 6 June 2012 when Earth’s population has the great occasion to witness the passing of Venus across Sun’s...
Category: Science
Photos: Supermoon to show spectacular sky display on Saturday
The Moon is due next weekend to be at its shortest distance from the Earth (perigee), therefore the natural satellite will turn into the biggest full moon of the 2012....
Video: Boeing 727 crashed in Mexico desert in behalf of…science
In the name of the science and flight safety, Discovery Channel and Channel 4 wanted intentionally to have a Boeing 727 crashed in the Mexican desert and the staggering “achievement”...
ESA satellite to orbit Sun at closest distance ever reached
A British consortium is already working to launch Solar Orbiter (SolO), a spacecraft that will approach the sun and take snapshots and record data from inside Mercury’s orbit in order...
Pigeon brain to contains “GPS neurons”
How do the pigeons navigate? That appears to be a question which puzzled people for quite long time. Scientists have identified a group of 53 cells inside pigeons brain aimed...
Astronomers discovered another habitable planet: Gliese 667 Cc
The new planet is located in the so-called “habitable zone” which is neither too close to be affected by the strong rays of the sun, nor too far from the...
Video: Space Shuttle Enterprise Last Flight – New York Flyby 27 April 2012
Space shuttle Enterprise, a prototype shuttle, flew for the last time carried atop a NASA 747 carrier plane from Washington to New York on Friday, Apr. 27. 2012 (scroll down...
Clone to Sun discovered! Possible Earth-like planet around?
A team of Brazilian astronomers identified a clone to the Sun, lying 200 light years away. Same mass, same temperature and chemical composition are some features which give scientists hope...
Mysterious object photographed by SOHO near Sun seems to withstand huge temperatures (Photo and Video)
A unidentified object captured by ESA & NASA’s SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) was spotted near the Sun. The mystery object which appears to withstand the huge temperatures around the...
Photo: Mystery meteor explodes, shocks California and Nevada. Fireball light seen within a radius of 1,000 km
A deafening bang was heard and a bright light was seen within a radius of 1,000 kilometers across the sky of the American states of Nevada and California on Sunday...