Geneva: A solar-powered plane attempting to fly around the world must cross the Pacific within a few weeks or it could remain stuck in Japan for a year, its pilot said in an interview published Thursday. Solar Impulse 2, which … read more
A mysterious, pyramid-shaped mountain has been discovered on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres. The structure was spotted by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft that is currently circling the dwarf planet. The new image was taken from a distance of about 2,700 … read more
Washington: NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft will reach a major milestone today, when it completes its 60,000th orbit since arriving at the red planet in 2001. Jim Green, NASA’s director of Planetary Science, said that this orbital milestone is an opportunity … read more
Washington: A dramatic sight awaits the sky-gazers on June 30 as the two most brightest planets in the solar system, Venus and Jupiter, converge in the night sky. At the beginning of June, the two planets were 20 degrees apart … read more
Washington: Astronomers have detected what they believe is the long-sought radio emission coming from a supermassive black hole at the center of one of our closest neighboring galaxies, using the Karl G Jansky Very Large Array (VLA). The elliptical galaxy, … read more