2007 in Science - Events, Discoveries and Inventions

Events, Discoveries and Inventions

  • 9 January – Apple Inc.'s first iPhone smartphone is announced by Steve Jobs at Macworld in San Francisco.
  • 12 January – Comet McNaught reaches perihelion and becomes visible from Earth during daylight.
  • 14 January – Scientists at the Roslin Institute announce they have genetically engineered chickens to lay eggs containing cancer-fighting proteins.
  • 28 February – The New Horizons space probe makes a gravitational slingshot around Jupiter to change its trajectory towards Pluto.
  • 3—4 March – A total lunar eclipse occurs, visible in some parts of the Americas and Asia, and in all of Europe and Africa.
  • 19 March – A partial solar eclipse occurs, visible in Asia.
  • 10 April – Spectroscopic analysis of HD 209458 b, an extrasolar planet, provides the first evidence of atmospheric water vapor beyond the Solar System.
  • 24 April – The potentially habitable exoplanet Gliese 581 c is discovered in the constellation Libra.
  • 27 April – US researchers simulate half a virtual mouse brain on a supercomputer.
  • 5 June – NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its second flyby of Venus en route to Mercury.
  • 28 August – A total lunar eclipse occurs, visible in some parts of the Americas and Asia, and all of Australasia and the Pacific Ocean.
  • 11 September – A partial solar eclipse occurs, visible in southern areas of South America.
  • 27 September – NASA's Dawn spacecraft is launched, beginning its journey to Vesta and Ceres.
  • 24 October – Comet 17P/Holmes suddenly brightens from 17 to 2.8 magnitude.

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