This Week in Storms: Typhoon Kila, Sudanese Dust, Hurricane Fred

Weather prediction involves a lot of probabilities (and no certainties) and informed guesses, but weather observation gets better every year. In part we can thank NASA's Te...

Chinese Research Will Fly On The International Space Station For The First Time

The International Space Station is a bit like an orbiting United Nations composed of 16 different countries. But it has yet to welcome China into its ranks. That could be s...

Hear The Poor Cry

A Very significant document has come out. It is a letter from Pope Francis addressed to everyone on this planet.

Pope Francis is head of the world’s largest r...

APJ Abdul Kalam: Reactions From The United States On The Indian President’s Death

WASHINGTON, DC: Reactions continue to pour in from around the US on the passing away of the former president of India, APJ Abdul Kalam. Read Reactions from some prominent p...

The Planetary Society's Solar Sail Is Ready To Deploy in Low-Earth Orbit

On Wednesday morning, a Mylar sheet the size of a boxing ring should pop out of a satellite that’s the size of a loaf of bread and make life for anyone who wants to l...

The Cassini Orbiter Takes One Last Look at Oddball Moon Hyperion

Ever since it first went into orbit around Saturn in July 2004, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has racked countless discoveries about the gas giant and its spectacular set...

The Technology – Content Nexus

As the New Year begins, consumer electronic fans from across the world gear up for the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada. This behemoth of a convention ho...

India’s Mars mission successfully enters red planet’s orbit

India’s Mars Orbiter Mission successfully entered the red planet’s orbit on Wednesday morning. Scientists from the Indian Space and Research Organisation fired ...

Researchers Use Hubble Telescope to Reveal Cloudy Weather On Alien World

A team of scientists led by researchers in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago report they have definitively characterized the atmosph...