Good news: the world will not end on December 21, 2012, despite all the prophecies. Here are 5 reasons why the Earth will continue to rotate in December 2012, according to NASA scientists: 1. Was the Mayan calendar studied by NASA scientists in detail? “As the calendar that you have…
Astronomers have revealed eight major unanswered mysteries of the Universe which are still puzzling the scientific community. Are you intrigued? According to the journal Science, unanswered questions vary from the riddle of dark matter to the query of why the Sun is so hot. Indeed, in some cases, even scientists admit that many of these…
A rare alignment between Earth, Venus, and the Sun allowed astronomers of the 17th and 18th centuries to calculate the precise distance of the Earth from the Sun for the first time. Now, astronomers around the world are preparing for the next transit of Venus that will take place on…
In 1976, NASA conducted a research mission on Mars called Viking. It was an experiment of sending special robots to the red planet and it was aimed to detect extraterrestrial life. Thirty-six years later, an international team of mathematicians and other scientists concluded that the mission could have actually discovered traces…
The progress of human civilization has set environmental problems on Earth. Yet, the fate of human civilization is not a question of tens or hundreds of years but of thousands and millions of years. Some scholars believe that migration to another galaxy would be the only possible scenario in the…
