Scientists are busily studying the images of the gigantic asteroid Vesta, and this is the first time that close up photographs have been taken. The Dawn spacecraft moved into orbit over the 530-kilometre-wide solid rock asteroid quietly in July and then started sending unbelievable photographic details of the blemished asteroid’s surface that closely resembles the [...]

British Columbia earthquake and tsunami safety is uncertain.  Since the Japan disaster, tsunami fears have risen to new levels and Canadians are wondering if the same disaster could occur in their home regions.  This should be considered a wakeup call for the residents of Vancouver Island, the gulf islands, and the lower mainland. A good [...]

British Columbia’s earthquake threat is similar to Japan according to experts. Construction in Vancouver has seen stricter building codes being put in place over the years that include seismic upgrading of public structures, thereby increasing the prospect that people and buildings would live through a cataclysmic earthquake similar to the quake that hit Japan on [...]

The spaceship Discovery, NASA’s oldest shuttle with the most mileage, made a safe landing today at 3 minutes before 12:00 noon. As the shuttle came back in contact with the earth in Florida, mission control said, it’s the finish of an historic expedition.  We say goodbye Discovery, the vessel that has shown the way over [...]

UBC is in the throws of planning a new animal research facility at the Okanagan university grounds, and activists for animal rights are saying that they are being left out of the details of the facility. Brian Vincent, spokesperson of Stop UBC Animal Research, a non-profit organization, said the University of British Columbia went to [...]

A man from a British town called Bolton in the north of England, is losing his voice from an illness, and he has made the decision to record himself saying thousands of different words so that in the future when he no longer has the ability to speak the words, he will still be able [...]

The final flight of the space shuttle called Discovery has lifted off for the last time. The craft lifted off from the Florida Kennedy Space Center at 4:53 p.m. ET Today.  The shuttle was safely in space by 5:02 p.m., when NASA said the main engines were shut off. The shuttle is carrying a few [...]

The first astrological census of the Milky Way has just been completed.  It is estimated that there are over 50 billion planets in the Milky Way, and at minimum of 500 million are said to be in temperature zones conducive to life. NASA’s Kepler telescope is the tool used to stir the pot and come [...]

Does the Earth orbit around the Sun… or does the Sun orbit around the Earth?  As it turns out, one third of Russians thinks that it’s the Sun that orbits the Earth, according to a survey conducted by VsTIOM, a national researcher on Friday. In the survey published this week, 32% of the Russian population [...]

The complete sun, both front and back, are visible simultaneously for the 1st time in new pictures recently released by NASA. The images of the sun’s complete surface and environment were taken by identical spacecrafts named the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) that were released by the United States space agency on Sunday.  It was [...]