Science
The volcano Mt. Etna erupted Tuesday night (February 5, 2013) and into Wednesday morning. And, the eruption was caught on video. See it here.
According to a March 2013 article published in the journal PLOS One, forest elephants in central Africa are being illegally killed (poached) in extremely large numbers by humans who are out for their ivory. What are we going to do about this?
The Comet Pan-STARRS, also known as C/2011 L4, is traveling inside the orbit of the planet Mercury, and will become even brighter as it continues its trip toward the Sun. See it over your local sky in March 2013.
UPDATE: With the launch going off on schedule, SpaceX has a video describing the launch of the SpaceX’s Dragon capsule, which was held on March 1, 2013, from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
A recently-discovered comet may-well be on a collision-course with Mars in October next year.
Scientists have constructed an Internet-based brain-to-brain link between a rat in North Carolina and one in Brazil.
American millionaire Dennis Tito announced on Wednesday, February 27, 2013, that he has plans to fund a private mission to the planet Mars in the year 2018.
In a NASA Television video, the U.S. space agency explains what happened when a meteor slammed into Earth's atmosphere over Russia in February 2013.
The Mars rover Curiosity is so curious about itself that it has taken a self-portrait. NASA provides this panoramic image of Curiosity while the rover is exploring on the planet Mars.
An international team of researchers has found a lost continent beneath the western Indian Ocean, near the country of Mauritius. From their investigations, the lost continent called Mauritia sank millions of years ago.
