Lyrid meteor shower 2013 is peaking today and people who have missed it will get to see it through April 26, but not at its highest point. The moon is set to spoil the meteor party due to it luminosity in its current phase. Only the bright Lyrid streaks will be visible and the fainter ones will diminish against the light of the moon. With the peak of Lyrid meteor…

Higgs boson or God particle discovery was confirmed by scientists at the Large Hadron Collider as a result of extensive testing of the particle at The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN). The God particle discovery was named as the breakthrough achievement of 2012 by the Science journal, as scientists have been searching for Higgs boson for over more than four decades. The collaborating scientists from ATLAS and CMS announced…

Nicolaus Copernicus, the man responsible for making the notion of the Earth revolving around the sun popular, has been honoured with a Google Doodle. The search engine giant has created a doodle to mark the 540th birthday of the famed mathematician and astronomer. The current Google Doodle depicts the earth and the planets revolving around the sun. Famous for his treatise, ‘On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres’, Copernicus asserted…

Asteroid DA14 will narrowly miss collision with Earth as it passes by our planet today according to the scientists. Experts have confirmed that there is zero chance of the asteroid hitting the Earth. However, the 50ft-wide space rock would come close as 17,200 miles to our planet placing it in the orbit of telecommunication and weather satellites. The space rock, which has been named as the Asteroid DA14, was first…

An asteroid, named 2012 DA 14, with a diameter of 50 metres and weighing 130,000 tonnes, will pass very close to the Earth in 10 days’ time. The asteroid will move so close to the Earth that it will journey between the planet and some satellites. The asteroid, voyaging at 17400mph, will not ram the Earth, NASA has assured the world. The renowned space agency has voiced that the route…

The ‘tractor beam’, made legendary by Star Trek, the US science fiction program, has been recreated by scientific researchers. The regeneration of the Star Trek ‘tractor beam’ has been interpreted as a development, which may lead to more effective medical testing. The real-life miniature ‘tractor beam’ will permit a source of light to magnetise objects. The Star Trek ‘tractor beam’ has been regenerated by scientists, hailing from Scotland and the…

The solution to an Armageddon scenario of an asteroid crashing to the earth is being put to test by the European Space Agency in collaboration with John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. ‘Asteroid Impact and Deflection Mission’ (AIDA) will test the feasibility of changing the course of an asteroid if it is headed towards the earth. As December 2012 passed there have been many theories about an asteroid collision initiating the…

Days after the discovery of supernova Mingus, the most distant supernova, scientists have discovered the largest known spiral galaxy due to a crash, which left scattered stars . The crash of the galaxy was discovered through images from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (Galex) satellite. The discovery is termed as a gift by the scientists as they were not looking for it. The Galaxy crash left a vast trail of ultraviolet…

Supernova Mingus, the stellar explosion, which was marked by scientists as the most distant supernova, could be the source for answers of the universe’s biggest enigmas. Supernova Mingus, named after the jazz musician, Charles Mingus, is expected to provide details about the dark energy, which is liable for speeding the expansion of the universe. The recent affirmation places Supernova Mingus at a distance of 10 billion light-years from Earth, which…

A Mars meteorite discovered in the Sahara desert in 2011 is found to be not only older than other Martian meteorite, but it also contains 10 times more water than the other meteorites found on the Martian surface. The Mars meteorite, nicknamed ‘Black Beauty’, is estimated to be 2.1 billion years old. The coal-coloured rock has a striking similarity to the volcanic rocks examined on the Martian surface by NASA. The…