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A NASA engineer said a Death Star can be built by using materials that are already in space, such as asteroids. It is possible to construct the Empire’s ultimate weapon, which is capable of destroying a planet, without launching costly sources to the space, as per the engineer.

Brian Muirhead, chief engineer at the NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said the death star seen in Star Wars movies was very costly because to build it a bunch of stuff was launched. Adding to that, it was destroyed by rebels two times, Muirhead added.

Astronomers and the entire scientific community are puzzled ever since they have discovered something strange in our outer solar system. It is a faint object located in the Alpha Centauri star system that is closest to earth, said astronomers.

Researchers after analyzing the data said that the newly discovered object can be a star. Astronomers in their research posted on arXiv detailed that the object is orbiting our own sun in the outer area of our solar system.

According to Forbes, it is for the second time that they have spotted an object in that particular region. One of the possibilities is that it could be an extreme trans-Neptunian object about 100 astronomical units (AU) away from the Sun.

Christmas has been a favorite festival for many and this year’s Christmas Eve will be even more special, as for the first time in 38 years full moon will brighten the sky. The similar situation last time happened in 1977, said experts.

Fred Espenak, moon and eclipse expert at the American space agency NASA said that the full moon will reach at its peak on Christmas night at 6:11 am EST. According to experts, the next time the full moon will shine on Christmas Eve will be in 2034.

In other words, kids born next year will be 18-year-old when next time a full moon will be seen on Christmas.

Greenpeace activists attempted another public stunt on Friday to make negotiators agree on a powerful accord. The green activist poured yellow paint around a famous roundabout to transform it into the Sun.

Greenpeace activists used bikes to pour the paint on the cobblestone street the paint got spread by the passing vehicles, which made it appear like sun when seen from the sky.

They wanted to paint the sun, to force the French government to accelerate the development of the use of renewable energy in the country and majorly the solar power.

Greenpeace coordinator Frederic Amiel said in a statement that around eighty Greenpeace activists gathered on the Place de l'Etoile and the Arc de Triomphe to send a message to Francois Hollande.

It’s December and with the start of the holiday season people have been exchanging gifts and presents with their loved ones. And now, a present all the way from our solar system is on its way for the earthlings. It is the annual Geminid meteor shower that will lighten up skies this weekend.

Astronomers call it as the best meteor shower in past years because of the number of meteors it produces. This year’s annual show will start on Sunday evening into Monday morning.

The show will most probably start between 9pm and 10 pm and will continue overnight. Experts said it will be easier for stargazers to enjoy the show as this year a crescent moon will set early on Sunday.

China’s capital Beijing has been covered in a thick blanket of hazardous smog. While on one hand smog has forced the residents to stop use of vehicles for commuting due to pollution, on the other sales of electric cars have picked up pace in the city.

Beijing issued the first three-day pollution ‘red alert’ on Monday. The measures to combat the hazardous smog adopted by officials included limiting the use of conventional petrol-powered and hybrid cars to alternate days.

The people who own an electric car or any other electric vehicle are free to roam around in the capital at any time. This has prompted a large number of inquiries about electric vehicles from the would-be buyers.