VOA News NASA has released an interactive, panoramic view of Mars taken by the Curiosity Rover. The 360-degree photo was taken on Aug. 5, almost four years after the probe landed on the Red Planet, inside the famous Gale Crater. One of the most spectacular views is of the Murray Buttes. NASA says these outcroppings […]readmore
La Gran Mancha de Júpiter es un reciente fenómeno atmosférico gigantesco, un remolino causado por una gran tormenta que se generó hace tan sólo unos 300 años de antigüedad. La NASA se mostró sorprendida por las altas temperaturas que está revelando la Gran Mancha de Júpiter, denominada también el Ojo de Júpiter. Se trata de […]readmore
VOA News Deep-sea researchers aboard the Nautilus have found a strange creature lurking in the waters off the Channel Islands near California. «This unidentified purple orb stumped our scientists onboard,” according to the Nautilus website. “After sampling, it began to unfold to reveal two distinct lobes. This could possibly be a new species of nudibranch.» […]readmore
VOA News The U.S. space agency, NASA, has released a stunning 360-degree video of the surface of the planet Mars. The video was taken by the Curiosity rover’s Mast Camera on Dec. 18. “This view of the downwind face of ‘Namib Dune’ on Mars covers 360 degrees, including a portion of Mount Sharp on the […]readmore
VOA News NASA researchers say they have have spotted iceberg-like “hills” floating on a sea of frozen nitrogen on Pluto. The hills, which are seen in the “Sputnik Planum” plane inside the so-called “heart,” are from one to several kilometers across, according to photos beamed back to Earth from the New Horizons probe. NASA believes the […]readmore
June Soh Centenarians, people who live to be 100 years old are currently the fastest growing age group in the World. And the U.S. has more than any other country, well over 50,000. Living longer may be more common than it was, but living well and continuing a healthy, active lifestyle into the second century […]readmore
VOA News One of the scientists responsible for demoting Pluto in our solar system may have found a replacement. California Institute of Technology Astronomers Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin have run the numbers and say they are convinced they have found a giant planet way out in the farthest reaches of our sun’s gravitational reach. […]readmore
After a month at the South Pole, you begin to adapt to the frigid conditions. Your body becomes more efficient at generating heat and your metabolism shifts into overdrive — every calorie you consume is burned. As your tolerance of the polar environment changes, so do your perceptions of warm and cold. My first week […]readmore
VOA News An unmanned U.S. rocket placed a $180 million climate-monitoring satellite into orbit Sunday, but then failed in an attempt to return to a platform floating in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. Technology entrepreneur Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket blasted off Sunday morning from a U.S. airbase in southern California, with a […]readmore
Supernova: 50 Times Brighter than Milky Way Astronomers have been observing a fascinating cosmic event taking place some 3.8 billion light years from Earth. Its the most luminous supernova in the universe. Scientists say that its to be the most powerful supernova ever seen. They say the object at the center of this celestial wonder, […]readmore