Science & Health

Moon, Venus and Jupiter Conjunction 2015: How and When to Watch Live with Your Naked Eyes

Two planets - Venus and Jupiter – put up a spectacular celestial show earlier this month, aligning next to each other. An even more interesting and rare astronomical phenomenon will take place on Friday, July 17 with the crescent moon, Venus and Jupiter conjunction set to form a triangle.

Jul 17, 2015

CO2 opalescent pools found at site of volcanic eruption that wiped out Minoan civilization

Pools full of carbon dioxide off coast of Santorini could pave way to monitor future eruptions.

Jul 17, 2015

Polar bears cannot compensate for sea ice loss starvation with slowed metabolism

Polar bears do not enter walking hibernation to make up for food deprivation during summer.

Jul 16, 2015

UK: 50 sharks spotted swimming along Sussex coast

Video shows massive shiver of sharks swimming in shallow intertidal waters in West Sussex.

Jul 16, 2015

Chile: Astronomers discover Jupiter doppelgänger in distant solar system

In a first for space exploration, an international group of scientists in Chiles European Southern Observatory have identified a solar system reportedly similar to our own, complete with a twin Jupiter revolving a Sun-like star.

Jul 16, 2015

Solar Impulse 2 Aircraft Suspends Flight

Following a record-breaking oceanic flight rom Nagoya to Hawaii, the aircraft suffered battery damage due to overheating.

Jul 16, 2015

UFO Sightings: New Evidence of Alien Spaceship Landing Near US Airbase Surfaces

Amid reports of pressure on several governments to reveal records of UFO (unidentified flying objects) sightings in the past, an army officer has opened up on alien spaceship landing near a US airbase over two decades ago.

Jul 15, 2015

Video: Beachgoers save stranded great white shark

The shark got stuck on land when trying to catch sea gulls

Jul 15, 2015

NASA New Horizons Spacecraft Survives Pluto Encounter, Phones Home

New Horizons phoned home, signaling that it had survived its 31,000 miles per hour(49,000 km per hour) blitz through the Pluto system.

Jul 15, 2015

NASA's Pluto Surface Sneak-Peek Debuts Exclusively on Instagram

The image has been clicked by NASA owned The New Horizon Spacecraft which has travelled more than 9 years and more than 3 billion miles

Jul 14, 2015

New Horizons Historic Pluto Plunge: Flyby Timing, Live Stream Links – What to Expect

NASA is live streaming the entire programme at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.

Jul 14, 2015

Curiosity Finds Rocks Similar to Earth's Crust on Mars

The discovery comes amid growing evidence that, in the past, Mars may have been much more similar to the ancient Earth than scientists had thought.

Jul 14, 2015

New Horizons spacecraft nears historic flyby of Pluto

Nearing the end of a 9-1/2-year journey to the solar systems unexplored outer reaches, scientists said they were excited about the new images of Pluto being received by the New horizons spacecraft on 12 July.

Jul 13, 2015

NASA Selects Sunita Williams to Pilot Commercial Flights into Space for Boeing and SpaceX

Sunita Williams will be trained for commercial spaceflights that will return American launches to US soil

Jul 12, 2015

ISRO Launches Five British Satellites

It was the heaviest commercial mission for the PSLV rocket till date though its total carrying capacity for such a mission is around 1,750 kg.

Jul 11, 2015