Extreme sports enthusiasts always find a way to live their life to the extreme and sky diving or parachuting is one of their favorite extreme sports. Sky diving is a free-fall from a certain height with safety landing provided by a parachute. Forest firefighters and the military uses sky diving for fast deployment to a [...]

Click to enlarge There is yet another reason to stay out past midnight this August. Aside from the spectacle of the Perseids meteor shower this August 12 to 13, a lunar eclipse event is also scheduled to happen on August 28, past midnight. A lunar eclipse such as this happens twice a year, more regular [...]

Scientists and naturalists of the old times regarded celestial events as a seemingly random event and even incalculable. But when Galileo first proposed that the Earth is round instead of its previous belief of being flat, the world changed in an instant. As it turned out, astronomers were able to predict the phases of the [...]