NASA lauds a teenager and his proposal to identify potential Mars 2020 rover landing site on the red planet.
You may want to start packing your bags, as scientists have discovered a new Earth-like planet, and it's hovering just nearby our Solar System.
Juno completed its first flyby to Jupiter on Aug. 27 and it had managed to capture an image of Jupiter's North Pole revealing weather formation and storm systems.
The explosion of SpaceX' Falcon 9 rocket did not only affect Facebook's mission to beam Internet to remote areas, it has dampened the satellite industry of Israel as well. An Israeli company created Facebook's Amos-6 satellite.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is preparing itself to send a spacecraft with humans on Mars or any deep destinations. As a part of preparation to achieve a great success in the Word history NASA's so called Orion spacecraft was tossed into a pool as a mock-up for crash test along with the dummies sitting inside to simulate Return-to-Earth Splashdown scenario.
Nearly one year ago, Facebook announced that its Aquila high-altitude, long-endurance aircraft was ready for flight testing, and the social network took the next step Thursday.Global head of engineering and infrastructure Jay Parikh announced in a Newsroom post that the first full-scale test flight of Aquila was a success.Aquila is one of the projects spearheaded by Facebook Connectivity Lab to further Internet.org’s mission of connecting everyone in the world to the Internet. Parikh described it as follows:
Good news for people who love to eat chocolates, but fear that they will end up gaining the extra amount of calories. A team of researchers from Temple University has found a way to reduce the amount of fat in chocolates using electric fields.
So far, NASA's Kepler space telescope has helped astronomers discover thousands of exoplanets. But the two newly discovered exoplanets are nothing like anything discovered before - they are just a few million years old and can be comfortably regarded as "planetary infants."
Huge parts of California around that San Andreas fault are rising and sinking, a new research has found. For the first time, a team of researchers has come up with a computed image that shows this surprising phenomenon.
A salt present on the Martian land could spell a disaster for humans who land on the planet to establish a colony. According to the researchers, the salt in question is 20,000 times more abundant on Mars than it is on Earth.
Coral bleaching and reef die-off has been a matter of discussion among environmentalists for quite some time now. Adding to the existing concerns, the the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have predicted that the condition of the coral reefs will only grow worse in the coming year and that there is no end to coral bleaching in the near future.
Everybody knows that there is no water on Venus. However, a team of researchers working with ESA’s (European Space Agency) Venus Express mission believes that the oceans that once existed on the surface of the planet were swept away by powerful electric winds.
When it comes to catching their prey, there is hardly any animal that is as precise as a chameleon. Even though these creatures have a nonchalant appearance, they do not fail at whipping their tongues out to capture prey that can weight up to 30 percent of their weight.
The mammals that existed during the giant ice-age era in Patagonia were extinct because of drastic changes in the climate and not because of a sudden onslaught of the human hunters that appeared around that time.
