Are you afraid of these ants is not worth. Trap-jaw ants have extremely powerful jaws which snap closed while they are in an open position. The impact is so strong that the opponents get a concussio...
The Voyager 2, launched in 1977, is renowned as the only probe ever to study Neptune and Uranus during planetary flybys. What is known about the mission of the Voyager? The probes are still flyi...
InSight was launched on May 5, 2018, and landed on Mars six months later on November 26. The image, which is stitched together from several different snapshots the machine sent back to Earth, giv...
Grace Legge, the bureau's extreme weather forecaster, said the rain would begin on Wednesday. The cyclone reformed off Far North Queensland on Tuesday night and was tipped to become a Category Thr...
Here's how Alfred McEwen , principal investigator for Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE, describes the color scene you see here , based on imagery c...
The findings, published on other day at the American Geophysical Union's annual meeting, confirmed the presence of molecules that contain oxygen and hydrogen atoms bonded together on the 500-meter nea...
ET, with the official peak around 7:30 a.m., meaning anyone across North America and the Pacific Basin should set their clocks to stargazing between those hours. The Geminids are unusual in that they...
Expedition 57 flight engineers Oleg Kononenko and Sergey Prokopyev of the Russian federal space agency Roscosmos conducted the 7-hour and 45-minute spacewalk. "There's nothing, that's the proble...
After more than five hours of a rare broadcast - showing the cosmonauts in space trying to cut through an insulate of the spacecraft with a knife - they uncovered the external part of the hole, origin...
The large Totten Glacier drains a major portion of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Antarctica is being showered in snow due to weather changes caused by global warming - and the "significant" rise i...
With about 17 billion to 25 billion tons of carbon (15 to 23 billion metric tonnes) under the planet's surface, DCO researchers estimate there is almost 300 to 400 times as much carbon biomass undergr...
Sir Richard Branson cheered when SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity touched back down at the Mojave test centre in California. It planned to "burn the rocket motor for durations which will see our pilots and ...
First discovered in 1948 by American astronomer Carl Wirtanen at the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton near San Jose, California, 46P/Wirtanen is about to make its brightest, closest approach for...
The WOTUS, or Waters of the United States, ruling was an Obama-era reading of water protection, which was targeted for replacement by the overhaul on Tuesday. "Our goal is a more precise definition th...
Scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies looked at the impacts of bleaching in 2016 and 2017, finding surviving coral behaved differently the second time. A current report b...
For the most comprehensive local coverage, subscribe today. 'Star gazers will be looking for clear, cloudless skies to have the best possible chance of catching a glimpse of the meteor shower, ' sai...
Kononenko arrived at the ISS on a Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft last Tuesday, along with NASA's Anne McClain and the Canadian Space Agency's David Saint-Jacques, weeks after the previous launch had to b...
After an online campaign which saw anti-plastic campaigners post 300,000 crisp bags to Walkers, the company has launched a first-of-its-kind recycling scheme. The scheme has won the approval of Mich...
If you're not convinced by the conspiracy theorists' arguments, but still want to see some cool spaceships recorded by the ISS, the European Space Agency recorded this incredible footage of an MS-10 c...
The data was collected during the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission's approach phase, between mid-August and early December, wh...
As if one sensor picking this up wasn't enough, the air pressure sensor also recorded the wind sound . That's consistent with the direction of dust devil streaks from the landing area, observed fro...
This illustration shows the positions of the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes in interstellar space, outside the heliosphere. The fringe of our solar system is called the heliosphere, marking the edge...
Because of a phenomenon called "tidal locking", we see only one "face" of the Moon from Earth. Chang'e is a series of probes that China has launched into orbit and landed on the moon. This tin will ...
Sparks did fly between Ford and Trudeau over the issue of carbon taxes with Trudeau reportedly telling the Ontario premier that if Ontario residents didn't pay more through a carbon tax then the o...
Andrew Wheeler said the curbs on coal emissions were "excessive burdens" on the industry. Trump "talks tough to the coal miners to get their support, but he doesn't deliver for them, and I don't thi...
And with the Moon showing only a slim crescent phase this week, conditions could hardly be better for a sneak peek at what is arguably the best annual meteor shower. For more quick and easy observing ...
CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter soon after the breathtaking loss of control and expected landing time, stating that the SpaceX team now pegged the failure on a grid fin's stalled hydraulic fin, whic...
It's official. At 2:23 am in southern China, a rocket carrying unique payload successfully launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center. The mission will also characterise the "radio environmen...
Also, building code changes will be required to ensure that all new homes are "net-zero" in terms of emissions by 2032. British Columbia's new climate plan has an "LNG-sized gap" in it, according to...
It should arrive at the space station on Saturday morning. Astronauts who are lucky enough to score a gig aboard the International Space Station make a lot of sacrifices in the name of science. ...
A brand-new batch of Mars photos has just come through from the InSight lander, NASA announced yesterday. But while the instruments on InSight can capture data in human-friendly frequencies, higher-...
Greenland's ice sheet is now melting at a rate that is "off the charts" compared with the last 350 years, a new study by scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has warned. While...
NASA's Anne McClain , the Canadian Space Agency's David Saint-Jacques and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko reached orbit minutes after the smooth launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3...
No, it's not a tongue-twister for your office Christmas party, it's something that's actually been happening in Hawaii. The uncomfortable sight on the Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program Facebook ...
This would change our assumptions about interstellar travel, namely, that it's impossible. "Our typical life-spans would no longer be a limitation (although even these could be dealt with multi-gene...
