The Chang'e-4 mission has also brought along fruit flies to form a "lunar mini biosphere", helping scientists understand how animals and crops interact in different environments. " We have given consi...
Dragon moved itself to a safe distance from the ISS before performing departure burns to send it back to Earth. SpaceX's robotic Dragon cargo ship splashed down in the Pacific Ocean tonight, bringin...
As Thais woke up on Monday morning to another day of murky air blanketing its bustling construction-filled capital, environment group Greenpeace said Bangkok was now the 10th most polluted in the wo...
During a total lunar eclipse, the Sun, Earth and the Moon are perfectly lined up. Coggin Heeringa is the director of Crossroads at Big Creek and she says the best part happens when all the other stars...
China successfully put a lander and rover combo onto the surface of the moon becoming the first nation to explore the far side of the moon from its surface. Chang'e 4 has two main components with th...
Global warming is melting ice in Antarctica faster than ever before - about six times more per year now than 40 years ago - leading to increasingly high sea levels worldwide , scientists have warned....
The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), the NY facility where Dr Watson worked for almost four decades and which has a school named after him, said that it was acting in response to his remarks ...
Tremblay said their studies suggested that white dwarfs stop their cooling by turning from liquid to almost 99 per cent solid over about 1.5 billion years. White-dwarf crystallization is akin to wat...
But after combining data from a range of different sources, the Nasa-funded scientists say it is the exact moment that a star collapsed into a compact object, forming a black hole or a neutron star. T...
The ocean's heat is recorded by thousands of floating robots . Overall, temperatures in the ocean down to 2,000 metres rose about 0.1 degree Celsius (0.18F) from 1971-2010, he said. In October a U...
And while he took shots from environmentalists on the campaign trail a year ago when arguing that climate change is not a problem for state government to alleviate, DeSantis said Thursday his approach...
This is the second known documentation of a repeating FRB , whilst the last documented repeater was in 2012. This sudden influx of tantalising clues has made astrophysicists nearly giddy. A number ...
We have never seen anything like this before. "They have yet to see FRBs , but there's a good chance that they will get to see them". This work was published today (Jan 9) in a set of papers in N...
In mid-December, more than 10,000 fish died in a stretch of the river a little farther upstream , the Guardian reported. But Mr Blair insists no one is getting water because of the prolonged drough...
The fleshy tomato stands in sharp contrast to the more agriculturally hard chilli plant that contain capsaicinoids, molecules that give peppers their spiciness. There 23 known types of capsaicinoids a...
Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly long-lived X-ray pulse from the debris of a shredded star as it inexorably spirals closer to a black hole's mouth. The signal lasted a surprisingly long time...
The booster used on today's mission had previously launched the Telstar 18 VANTAGE satellite in September of a year ago, landing in the Atlantic on droneship "Of Course I Still Love You". In an image ...
In 2017, Musk claimed that the Starship would be able to "take you anywhere on Earth in 60 minutes" - but if you're already dreaming of speedy commutes around the world, you'll be disappointed to kno...
The photos reveal a seemingly endless horizon of grey, rocky terrain. Among the images is a 360-degree panorama stitched together from 80 photos taken by a camera on the lander after it released t...
The researchers believe that whatever is emitting the periodic signal must be orbiting the black hole, just outside the event horizon, near the Innermost Stable Circular Orbit, or ISCO - the smallest ...
The data shows the United States is unlikely to meet its pledge to reduce emissions by 2025 under the Paris climate agreement. Under President Donald Trump, the United States is set to leave the Par...
The full image contains nearly 25 million stars, and will help scientists study not just the Triangulum Galaxy, but Andromeda and our own. No, seriously, the final image is so huge that you'd never wa...
In 2017, Professor Avid Loeb, from the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics in the United States, proposed that FRBs could be leakage from planet-sized alien transmitters. "An FRB emitted from ...
Losing the vote would deepen the uncertainty over the future of Brexit , Britain's biggest shift in foreign and trade policy for more than 40 years, and open the way for several different outcomes, r...
The planet is in the K2-288 system, which contains a pair of dim, cool M-type stars that are 5.1 billion miles apart, about six times the distance between Saturn and the sun. Tess has also detected do...
Her proposal aims to restrict the Government's freedom to use the Bill to make tax changes linked to a no-deal Brexit without the "explicit consent" of Parliament. She consulted with European lead...
He said people who want to view the "blood moon" eclipse January 20 should dress in warm clothes and be prepared for weather changes. Some days you may have noticed the moon looking much bigger than...
Blais' family has started a Facebook page and are grateful for the help they've received so far, including from a Quebecer in Burkina Faso who is travelling in person to different border crossings t...
The launch date could possibly be pushed back to February due to the partial government shutdown that has affected NASA. Indeed, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk hinted that the Crew Dragon test f...
Chang'e-4 communicates with Earth via a relay satellite in orbit around the moon , something that adds another level of complexity and risk, according to Jim Head, a researcher at Brown University...
However, the astronaut's mistake made everyone at the center panic when they heard that Kuipers called 911. His slip up caused a security alert and he learned he would have to be more careful when try...
According to official Chinese government sponsored news media the China National Space Administration (CNSA) landed the robotic lunar lander in the unexplored South Pole-Aitken basin, the larges...
The first major snag came last month when we found out the system's massive boom wasn't actually holding onto all the plastic it was created to collect. "Although it is too early to confirm the cause ...
The Quadrantids meteor shower is set to peak overnight between Thursday, January 3 and early Friday, January 4. You'll want to face northeast. The Quadrantids meteor shower is not the only astronomi...
Image credit: CNSA. Wu Weiren, chief designer of the lunar exploration project, told the state broadcaster CCTV: "This giant leap is a decisive move for our exploration of space and the conquering of ...
