Galileo Galilei was born on 15 February 1564 in Pisa. (He is one of the few famous people known by his first name rather than his surname...

Sir Isaac Newton ,  (born  December 25, 1642 [January 4, 1643, New Style] ,  Woolsthorpe,  Lincolnshire ,  England —died  March 20 [March ...

Neutron stars can spin at a rate of 600 rotations per second. Neutron stars are one of the possible evolutionary end-points of high m...

 This is what happens when a black hole swallows a star As the star gets sucked up into the black hole, a huge jet of plasma is burped o...

Building Human Organs Oganovo is a company based in San Diego, California. Their latest science invention is a technology (novogen...

Sir Albert Einstein.... Albert Einstein , a man whose name is practically synonymous with genius, is one of history's greatest th...

Animals can rain from the sky Amazing science fact: raining animals is a relatively common meteorological phenomenon, with occurrence...

Scientists have set a distance record with a new type of electric current It could power a hard drive without energy loss. Researc...

1. There are 62,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body–laid end to end they would circle the earth 2.5 times 2. At over 2000 k...

NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Captures a New View of Saturn NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft views Saturn from above. Saturn appears as a seren...

100 years ago: The first virus was found in both plants and         animals. 90 years ago: The Grand Canyon became a national monument ...

Artist's illustration of the alien planet HD 189733b, which is about the size of Jupiter. HD 189733b's blue hue is probably cau...

Add caption When Helium is cooled to almost absolute zero (-460°F or -273°C), the  lowest temperature possible, it becomes a liquid...

Bermuda Triangle Researchers attempt to determine what has caused hundreds of planes to mysteriously disappear in what is known as the...