SCIENCE

The moon often changes colors during a solar eclipse, but witnesses saw a spectacular red across the moon during yesterday's eclipse. What's the reason?

Spectators across the world were treated with an event of their lifetime on June 15. In what, astronomer’s term as a spectacular show, the white moon turned blood red as the longest lunar eclipse in a decade as unfolded on Wednesday night.

Spectators across the world were amazed to see the longest and the most beautiful lunar eclipse in 11 years and the first of the year and on June 15, 2011 when the moon turned into a blood-red shade as it entered the earth's shadow.

NASA's Voyager 1 could exit our solar system by 2012 and go where no man-made object has ever gone, says a new study.

Travel + Leisure magazine has ranked America’s ten dirtiest cities. Who's #1? It's not New York, it's not LA, it's....

The sun is most likely going into hibernation as the latest unusual solar readings, including fading sunspots and weakening magnetic activity near the poles suggest that we are headed towards a solar event that hasn't happened in hundreds of years, according to new data released Tuesday at the annual meeting of the solar physics division of the American Astronomical Society in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

The first total lunar eclipse in 2011 will take place on Wednesday, which is one of the longest eclipses of the moon and will last just over 100 minutes, the duration of which rivals only three other eclipses in the last 100 years.

An Italian space enthusiast named Matteo Lanneo claimed to have found a structure on the face of Mars that looks like Mahatma Gandhi.

New data released Tuesday at the annual meeting of the solar physics division of the American Astronomical Society in Las Cruces, New Mexico, may suggest that we are headed towards a solar event that hasn’t happened in hundreds of years.

Scientists from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston have discovered a trio of genes tied to migraine headaches, one in which the link is exclusive to women, according to a study published on Sunday.

A rabies-infected girl who showed normally irreversible symptoms of the late-stage infection, survived miraculously in what is only the third such case in the US.

The first total lunar eclipse in 2011 will take place on Wednesday, June 15, which is one of the longest eclipses of the moon and will last just over 100 minutes.

According to a new research bariatric surgery does not assist older men to live longer.

According to a new study bariatric surgery does not help older men to have a longer life.

Formaldehyde - a colorless, flammable and strong-smelling chemical used in consumer products and in medical labs - is now being listed as a 'known human carcinogen' in a new federal government report.

A Connecticut woman whose face was hurt by a chimpanzee has received surgery for a full face transplant. The surgery, which took place in May, lasted 20 hours and took place at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

The consumption of non-alcoholic weissbier, or wheat beer, has a positive effect on athletes' health, according to a research study that gathered during the world's largest study of marathons, Be-MaGIC (beer, marathons, genetics, inflammation and the cardiovascular system).

Connecticut chimpanzee attack victim Charla Nash got a full face and hand transplant late last month in a 20-hour surgery. The prerequisites of a full face transplant surgery are the availability of a suitable donor with blood and tissues matching the patient’s and the physical and psychological health of the patient.

A Connecticut woman whose face was attacked by a chimpanzee has received surgery for a full face transplant. The surgery, which took place in May, lasted 20 hours and took place at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

NASA launches an instrument which will be able to measure salt in the ocean.

A research team at IBM has made a circuit from graphene, a razor-thin revolutionary material. This marks a significant milestone in the use of graphene in practical devices, which could one day replace many uses of the ubiquitous silicon.

Research scientists have discovered a new class of nicotinic receptor located in the hypothalamus of the brain that may alleviate hunger. The new research study uncovered a brain mechanism that could be targeted for new medications designed to help people quit smoking without gaining weight.

Scientists from around the world are expecting beautiful auroras across the sky on Thursday as strongest solar flares seen in five years are sending a mass of charged particles towards Earth, which could cause radio interference and auroral displays.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for global action to end the Aids (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) disease by 2020, in a UN summit on Aids in New York.

The strongest solar flares seen in five years are sending a mass of charged particles towards Earth, which could cause radio interference and auroral displays.

The biggest solar flare in four years erupted from the sun on Tuesday and is heading towards Earth in an event that could disrupt power grids and satellites.

The sun emitted an unusual solar flare, a small radiation storm and a spectacular coronal mass ejection (CME) from a sunspot complex on the solar surface, on Tuesday. The flare peaked at 1:41 a.m. ET, according to NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).

According to the Australian parenting website, 'Raising Children Network', health problems associated with childhood obesity are so severe, that there are concerns the current generation of parents in Australia will outlive their children!

Women fake orgasms in bed to protect their own insecurities and fear of intimacy, according to a new research study, the Livescience magazine reports.