In animals, the gene helps rid the body of chemicals by promoting an enzyme that breaks them down, and it seems as though the same is true for plants . By day six, chloroform was undetectable. Benz...

But the crater isn't just icy because of the Martian winter. The crater is found in the northern lowlands of Mars near the planet's north pole which is known as Olympia Undae for its wavy, dune-fi...

Native Americans marked December's full moon as the beginning of the coldest part of the year. In December, the Earth's North Pole turns away from the Sun, giving the Southern Hemisphere the most su...

After United Launch Alliance said a rocket launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County was canceled, many took to social media to post photos and ask questions about the mysterious ...

Black bin, garden waste and recycling collections that would have been made between December 25 and January 4 have been changed as follows. Most wrapping paper that is not glittery or metallic and h...

The aquarium is also having to answer questions about the actual photo since Abby looks so obese in it. The aquarium apparently agreed, issuing a four-part apology to anyone who was offended. Desp...

However, another fisheries agency official said that Japan has no intention of withdrawing from the IWC. In response to being voted down, the government delegation expressed the possibility that Jap...

The government told its MPs of the decision , NHK reports. Japanese officials have not officially confirmed the reports, but have declared "all options are on the table". What is the current whaling...

Also due to launch later today was a rocket made by French company Arianespace , but this has also been delayed until tomorrow because of "unfavorable high-altitude wind conditions", the company said...

Stay with KOLO on this developing story. Wednesday's launch is scheduled to take place at 5:44 p.m., ULA announced on Twitter. The launch has been delayed four times now, most recently Tuesday n...

As the 11-minute video above shows, the results were glorious. The HomePod box is the flawless bait. "If anyone was going to make a revenge bait package and over-engineer the crap out of it, it was ...

The milestone discovery was made by Scott S. Sheppard with Carnegie, as well as Chad Trujillo with Northern Arizona University and David Tholen with the University of Hawaii. "The orbital similarities...

National Reconnaissance Office . It was initially scheduled to launch on December 8, but it was canceled seconds before liftoff due to a technical glitch. According to United Launch Alliance , it w...

NASA's estimates of the amount of material present in the rings, combined with data on how much of it is falling, points to the rings being completely gone within 300 million years. There are still so...

The Paris deal will come into force in 2020. Most nations wanted the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to form a key part of future planning. The other guidelines incl...

ET to launch its New Shepard rocket for a suborbital flight from its facility in West Texas, in the tenth mission for the reusable rocket system. SpaceX had a Falcon 9 rocket set poised and read...

The VSS Unity hit a maximum altitude of 51-point-four miles. The US government has awarded astronaut wings to pilots who ventured farther than roughly 80km beyond earth's surface. A 90-minute flig...

After having numerous packages stolen directly from his front porch, a YouTuber and engineer chose to take matters into his own hands by creating a fake package which, when opened, covers the thief ...

In an image from NASA , a view of Saturn from the Cassini spacecraft. But if you could travel 300 million years into the future, you would need to, because by then, chances are those rings would be g...

First up on the schedule is SpaceX , which plans to launch a Falcon 9 rocket at around 9:11 am local time from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Vice President Mike Pence will attend the...

According to CNN , David Berry Jr . was convicted for illegally killing deer by taking only their heads and antlers, and leaving the rest of their bodies to rot. He was arrested alongside several...

The mission, designated Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa)-19, took place just over a month after Rocket Lab's last successful orbital launch. A spokeswoman for Rocket Lab said the company w...

Sheppard, the University of Hawaii's David Tholen, and Northern Arizona University's Chad Trujillo. The distance between the Earth and the sun is an AU, or astronomical unit - the equivalent of abou...

That height clears the 50-mile threshold that is sometimes considered the boundary of space. Virgin Galactic's ambitions to make space tourism a reality were given a great boost when the company...

At 51.4 miles high, VSS Unity reached the technical definition of space, earning its pilots commercial astronaut wings by the US Federal Aviation Administration , although the usual worldwide stand...

The comet will be around 7.2 million miles from the earth which is nearly 30 times the distance between Moon and Earth. "As it approaches the Sun , the ice melts and turns into a huge cloud that beco...

It was discovered photographically on January 17, 1948, by the American astronomer Carl A. Wirtanen. If you aren't able to view it, the Virtual Telescope Project will stream observations from its ...

The PLS instrument aboard Voyager 1 stopped working in 1980 long before that probe crossed the heliopause, but was believed to have crossed the boundary six years before its twin. Still, there's a w...

The 3200 Phaethon may have collided with another object in the distant past, which produced the stream of particles that hurdle across earth's atmosphere and created a meteor shower. For those plann...

Bureau of Meteorology Weather Services Manager, Richard Wardle, on Wednesday afternoon said Cyclone Owen was likely to reach Severe Tropical Cyclone intensity if conditions remained favourable. "We ...

Comet 46P/Wirtanen now resides among the background stars of Taurus the Bull, between the magnificent Pleiades star cluster (M45) and the 1st-magnitude star Aldebaran. Also, Wirtanen has a small nu...

The proposal excludes groundwater; ditches, including roadside and farm ditches; prior converted cropland; stormwater control features and wastewater and waste treatment systems. "This is not an Obama...

The other face, most of which can not be seen from earth, is called the far side or dark side, not because it's dark, but because most of it remains unknown. Chinese officials have previously said the...

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) snapped images of the lander, its heat shield and its parachute on the planet's surface. NASA said in a tweet alongside the photo: "Say Cheese!" "The spacecraft...

The Alberta government is issuing a request for expressions of interest from the private sector to build a refinery in the province that would use oil extracted here. "We're open to looking at differe...