2015 marks 50 years of successful NASA missions to Mars starting with Mariner 4 in 1965. Since then, a total of 15 robotic missions led by various NASA centers have laid the groundwork for future human missions to the Red Planet. The journey to Mars continues with additional robotic missions planned...

“At long last, a public, permanent, and very visible landmark that acknowledges not only that something tragic happened but also that something beautiful happened in terms of the LGBTQ community’s responding advocacy and care giving. That’s what lead Sawyer to join the memorial’s board of directors

The Pulse massacre took place in the early hours of June 12, 2016. Lone gunman Omar Mateen, 29, entered the LGBTQ club on one of its regular Latin nights in the early hours of the morning and embarked on a deadly rampage. He killed 49 and left 53 others injured. He was shot dead by police at the sce...

MIDSUMMER KUPALA NIGHT is a Slavic feast associated with the summer solstice of the Sun, celebrated in the shortest night of the year. This is festival of water and fire. On June 21, 2015 in Poznan, Poland near the Warta River, this feast was also a flash mob in which participants have released one ...

Since the beginning of the epidemic, more than 70 million people have been infected with the HIV virus and about 35 million people have died of HIV. Globally, 36.7 million [30.8–42.9 million] people were living with HIV at the end of 2016. An estimated 0.8% [0.7-0.9%] of adults aged 15–49 years worl

Alaska Airlines Flight 870, alter its flight path on Tuesday, March 8, 2016 so that passengers could get a glimpse of a rare solar eclipse from the plane’s windows.Wrote the airline: “Tuesday’s rendezvous over the Pacific Ocean is not luck, but a precisely planned equation. The calculations began a

John Glenn, NASA astronaut, U.S. Senator and the first American to orbit the planet, died on December 8, 2016 at the age of 95. Senator John Glenn, an american hero and role model for young americans who admire the work of NASA and would like to make a career of space exploration, was the first amer...

Get your first look at ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY in theaters December, 2016. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is the first standalone Star Wars movie from Lucasfilm Ltd. It takes place in the Star Wars universe (set between the events of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of The Sith and Star Wars Episod...

In the 2015 James Bond film, Spectre, the opening sequence features a Day of the Dead parade in Mexico City. At the time, no such parade took place in Mexico City; one year later, due to the interest in the film and the government desire to promote the pre-Hispanic Mexican culture, the federal and l

NASA's Juno spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter since July, 2016. But only just recently have scientists had a chance to analyze all of its data — and the results are painting a different picture of Jupiter than what anyone expected. Juno is also returning images unlike any we've ever seen, includi