NAME-Stephen William Hawking BORN-8 January 1942  (Age 67), Oxford,England NATIONALITY-English FIELDS-Applied Mathematician, Theoretical Physicist INFLUENCES-Dikran Tahta KNOWN FOR-Black Holes, Quantum Gravity, Theoretical Cosmology NOTABLE AWARDS-Prince of Asturias Award(1989), Copley Medal(2006)

SpaceAge started with the launch of Sputnik I by the Soviet Union.Since then,many unmanned and manned voyages have been undertaken.Orbiting space stations helped scienists to carry out experiments in space.After the mon,efforts o conquer Venus ,Mars ,Jupiter and saturn were made. Pathfinder has landed on Mars . All these voyages -manned or un,anned have become a [...]

There’s all sorts of junk whizzing around in Earth orbit, bits and pieces of spacecraft that nobody ever cleaned up. The military’s early-warning radar can spot the big pieces—those four inches long and up—and steer spacecraft out of the way. Researchers even know a lot about the tiny pieces, less than two-hundredths of an inch [...]

NASA postponed the launch of space shuttle Endeavour again on Monday because of bad weather near the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The flight has been on hold for a month, delayed by fuel leaks and bad weather.

Why Ozone layer is getting depleted at south pole when most of the Industrial countries like Germany, UK, France, Japan, Canada, USA etc. are situated towards North Pole; is one of the main commonly asked questions. This question was asked by NASA Astrochemistry department… I gave the correct answer… I want to see how many of [...]

The moon landings did not mark the end of our space dreams. Such exploration is our destiny – and inspires science careers”The moon landings marked not the beginning, but the end, of our space dreams,” wrote the Observer’s science correspondent, Robin McKie, last week. Well, apart from being very obviously factually a load of toss… [...]

  The true Ratna of Bharat, devoted son of Bharat Ma and a true patriot-that’s what APJ Abdul Kalam, the former President of India is. It is not possible to describe him in words I know, but I just want to pay him a tribute. Born on Rameshwaram island in a Tamil-Muslim family, Dr. APJ [...]

Our Earth is a unique planet in the solar system . It is the fifth largest planet in the solar system . It is the the third planet from the sun . Our planet is at a convenient distance from the sun . That is why it is neither very hot like mercuy nor very [...]

Our earth has only one satellte , that is , the moon .Its diameter is only one – quater that appers so big because it is nearer to our planet than other celastrial bodies . It is about 3,84,400 km away from us . Now you can compare the distance of the earth from the [...]

A galaxies is a huge mass of stars, nebulae, and intersteller material . The smallest galaxies contain about 100,000 stars, while the largest contain about 3,000 billion stars. There are three main types of galaxies , classified according to their shapes : elliptical, which are oval shaped ; spiral ,which have arms spiralling outwards from [...]