Snake hunters have captured what they say is the largest python ever found in the swamps of the Florida Everglades: a pregnant female more than 17ft (5.2m) long and weighing 140lb, or 63.5kg. The ...
Friends of the Earth has taken Shell to court "to force it to cease its destruction of the climate". The protesters carried banners with slogans such as "We Shell overcome - eventually" and red post...
About 40 minutes later, explosives behind the plate detonated, sending the projectile hurtling toward Ryugu at 4,500 miles per hour (7,240 km/h). As it does so it will release a camera slightly abov...
If all goes well, Beresheet will be the first Israeli spacecraft and the first privately-funded lunar landing, NBC News noted . It will leave on the surface of the moon a time capsule containing a ...
The prototype being tested is suborbital, but SpaceX is building an orbital version at Boca Chica. U.S. manufacturer of advanced rockets and spacecrafts, SpaceX has test-fired the onboard engine Rap...
ET, four minutes ahead of schedule, the craft docked on the Pirs compartment on the space station's Russian segment. "This was a flawless launch, right on time", NASA spokesperson Rob Navias sai...
India Becomes Elite Space Power With Successful "Mission Shakti" Test . According to NASA, in the ten days, since India conducted the test the chance of debris colliding with the ISS is up by 44%. A...
Phobos , which is about 11.5 km across, was imaged on March 26, while Deimos, which is about 2.3 km across, was photographed on March 17, NASA said in a statement on Thursday. Curiosity Rover's offi...
Hughes said that under normal conditions, it would take about 10 years for coral recruitment to bounce back. In fact, the latest paper is not the only one to suggest that the ability of the Great B...
As a major resources and energy exporter and a large country with a relatively small population, Australia needs a climate change policy which recognises the high relative emissions intensity of the c...
China and India together were responsible for half of the total global attributable deaths from air pollution in 2017, a new global study released on Wednesday has revealed. Robert O'Keefe, vice-presi...
The announcement has many in the scientific community anticipating the release of an image or images of a black hole's event horizon: the only part - if you want to think of it that way - of a black...
Increases in mean air temperature over land underlain with permafrost are projected under all emissions scenarios, resulting in continued permafrost warming and thawing over large areas by mid-century...
Despite some speculation over methane on Mars, a group of scientists chose to conduct an independent investigation to see if the gas might exist on the Red Planet. In an attempt to trace the source of...
Since the wing could adjust to the particular characteristics of each stage of flight (takeoff, landing, steering, etc.), it could perform better than traditional wings. The design was tested in a NA...
The National Weather Service's Tallahassee forecast office tweeted images of the meteor showing up on a lightning map . Bright meteors are only visible for a few seconds due to their fast speeds. A...
The group stated in January that paper bags are the bigger environmental threat ( they aren't ) and the plastic ban would only harm business. Following in the footsteps of California , the first ...
Its flash was caught on the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM), a satellite that takes hundreds of images each second and maps the paths of lightning storms. 'This isn't normally what I post on my...
For kangaroo rats, who generally eat seeds, these attacks are commonplace, but the tracking of the encounters by the researchers revealed that the two are evenly matched and show for the first time ev...
The law won't apply to private school teachers or professors at junior colleges and universities. This is the fourth time that Quebec has seen the introduction of a bill banning religious garb or sy...
By researching the material that this unstable asteroid releases into space , astronomers can get a glimpse into the history of planet formation in the early ages of the Solar System . The trail was...
The physical signs and socio-economic impacts of climate change are accelerating as record greenhouse gas levels drive global temperatures towards increasingly unsafe levels, according to a new report...
On Mars, the 1.8kg helicopter will be closer to 700g, dramatically altering its flight profile. However, the recent flight tests were performed with the actual helicopter bound for Mars. While the tea...
Nearly one-third of the more than 2,000 respondents reported at least one psychotic episode within the last six years, most commonly those who had been exposed to the highest levels of air pollution ...
It has grown in stature over the years, as more than 180 countries and territories are now involved. "We live in an interconnected world". "As a responsible local government who is increasingly be...
In 2013, planetary scientists at the European Space Agency released 3D images shown above of the "striking upper part of the Reull Vallis region of Mars", which revealed a 932-mile-long (1500 kilomete...
Researchers of an global study discovered that a deadly fungal disease in amphibians is causing dramatic declines in the creatures' populations. Sixty of the 501 species have shown some signs of recov...
Pence also promised that the first woman to walk on the moon would be from the U.S. The last moon expedition happened in 1972. With a view to delays in the development of the new rocket, the SLS...
The program will involve simulating space conditions in the lab and studying its impact on the human body through the participating volunteers. Scientists have long known that lying in bed mimics so...
NASA announced March 25 that Anne McClain , who performed a spacewalk with fellow NASA astronaut Nick Hague March 22, won't participate in another spacewalk scheduled for March 29 with Chri...
Those trends are expected to continue, and the group predicts that by 2025, 86 percent of coal plants will be producing electricity that is more expensive than renewable energy. In spite of that, the ...
The addition of the Pennsylvania plant will bring the total number of bottles recycled by CarbonLITE up to 6 billion per year. Prepared by ACC's Economics and Statistics Department, the report u...
Rex specimen ever found. The massive creature roamed ancient Saskatchewan 66 million years ago and took nearly 30 years to excavate, assemble, and study. Scotty's size immediately made an impressio...
Most of the Democrats voted "present" in protest while Democratic Sens. Cory Booker, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar and Gillibrand. Although the House could call a vo...
Only one medium-sized spacesuit is now available aboard the International Space Station - where Koch and McClain are staying with four American, Canadian and Russian men. McClain and Koch were b...
