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President Barack Obama has written something interesting regarding cosmos on his Twitter account. One might have expected the President to talk about topics related to national security, the Affordable Care Act or climate change. However, the topic mentioned by him is totally different. He has mentioned regarding the cosmos.

The President wrote that his science advisor showed him Hubble shot of the most crowded place in Milky Way galaxy. It is a stunning Hubble Space Telescope observation of the Arches Cluster, located some 25,000 light-years away in the direction of the center of the galaxy.

Scientists have discovered the fossil of a huge shark, which used to live in shallow seas 100 million years ago.

The authors of the discovery said that the huge shark, also known as Leptostyrax macrorhiza, would have been among the largest predators of that time. Its discovery is a challenge for the scientific community when it comes to earlier estimates of when such extremely large sharks would have developed.

In 2009, Janessa A. Doucette-Frederickson found what she thought was a rock when a dig in the Duck Creek Formation of Texas was being explored by her. After that she examined the thing with co-researcher Joseph Frederickson to discover that it was in fact a massive fossil.

With humans treading into space 50 years back, NASA has persistently pursued space adventures in a bid to unravel the mysteries of the infinite cosmos, conducting vigorous scientific research round-the-clock at the international space station.

Celebrating 50 years in space walk, $18.5 billion in funding was approved for NASA by the US House of Representatives.

Sam Scimemi, Director of the International Space Station, stressed the benefits of an increasing association of private companies in space explorations. He described Russia as an excellent and reliable partner of NASA.

The noise around Robotics is more imminent these days with the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals round the corner. The search to develop mechanistic wonders continues persistently and now a team at the Oregon State University’s Dynamic Robotics Laboratory (OSU) claims the ability of their bipedal humanoid robot to walk past difficult terrain without falling.

OSU team has designed this robot called ATRIAS, a blind humanoid bipedal robot that is capable of recovering from hurdles by planning its movements in advance since it cannot see the approaching obstacle.

ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft has beamed back new images from the close encounter with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

The images, which were captured from a distance of 7.9 km, reveal 4km wide mash of ice shards, snowflakes, pebbles and boulders on the comet’s surface.

Everything about the comet is ancient. The comet’s surface is dead and weird, with scattered rubble. However, no two places are the same. There are 900m high cliffs, and flat dunes of drifting powdered ice.

The reason behind comet’s unusual ‘rubber-duck’ shape is due to an ancient collision between two large piles of rubble out in the distant Oort cloud surrounding our solar system. It may have happened that collision may have sent it spiraling down towards the sun.

A beluga whale born in captivity on May 10, 2015 at Georgia Aquarium is struggling to survive ever since. The calf is one of six whales born at facilities across the country during the last five years. The calf was 126 pounds when she was born. However, it was only able to gain a single pound by the end of May.

It has struggled to gain weight at the proper rate, even while feeding on both milk from her mother and artificial formula. As long as it refuses to eat, the chances of her gaining weight and growing to adulthood remain slim.