If the answer is three or more, pull out another stick and try again. Then, in 2015, two MIT students in search of a final project set out to discover if there was any way to control those natural...

The discovery belongs to a team of astronomers from Durham University in the United Kingdom and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge (CfA), U.S., who uncovered that some the ...

Indeed, a fascinating aspect about early pollinating insects is that they were paired with non-flowering plants (gymnosperms), rather than flowering plants (angiosperms). Chenyang Cai, study lead au...

Lane is now undergoing rapid intensification, which is expected to peak within the next 24-36 hours, according to the National Hurricane Center. Satellite imagery shows Lane has begun to develop an ...

Lane is expected to strengthen over the next three days as it travels west, Derek Wroe, lead forecaster with the National Weather Service in Honolulu, told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Ernesto , as w...

He had high hopes for Trump as president, he writes, but he has been let down. Former CIA directors and other top national security officials are typically allowed to keep their clearances, at lea...

SpaceX will swiftly carry the Dragon capsule to safety in the event of an in-flight mishap with the Falcon 9 rocket. A test model of the Crew Dragon was presented to members of the media at SpaceX...

The clouds increasing though from the west with some rain. Lane is now forecast to become a hurricane on Friday and could become a major hurricane over the weekend. Though there's to be sunshine o...

It is the first space craft to be named after a living person - astrophysicist Eugene Parker, 91, who first described solar wind in 1958. The car-sized probe is created to give scientists a better u...

The new technique is known as Procast (Probabilistic forecast) and it takes the usually irrational and chaotic behaviour of Earth's weather systems and moves to simplify them in order to predict a pat...

The planet doesn't really have an atmosphere to shield it from meteorite impacts, and the planetary surface is still in its nascent days. This is one of the oldest and most stable tectonic structures ...

Though it hadn't reached adulthood, the specimen's wingspan was already over 1.5 meters, or roughly 5 feet, which could make it the biggest species of pterosaur on record, BBC News reported . The...

Like a tropical storm is has a closed low at the surface but like non-tropical systems it has a low aloft as well. The storm continues to move just south of due west at about 12 kt. Before then they...

Rick Scott , a man who over the past eight years cut almost $ 700 million from Florida's environmental agencies (many of whom oversee algae outbreaks) declared a state of emergency today to combat ...

The shower peaked overnight on Sunday (Aug. 12) and early into Monday morning (Aug. 13). "On a normal night a meteor can come from any area of the sky". "It was a good night with very good number of...

It'll fly just over 6 million km from the surface - protected from the searing temperatures by a revolutionary new heat shield. The probe is created to plunge into the Sun's atmosphere, known as t...

This year is going to be especially striking because of the new moon, painting the flawless backdrop for the late-summer nature show. As Earth moves through this cloud, the particles fall into our atm...

According to the study, the New Horizons probe detected a strong front of UV light at the edge of our solar system , well above what should be there if there was no "hydrogen wall", reports Science ...

The shark was among the top predators during its heyday 25 million years ago, feasting mostly on small whales . Phillip Mullaly, an Australian fossil enthusiast and teacher, made the discovery of h...

That happened for the last time in 1992 and won't happen again until 2126. As Earth moves through this cloud, the particles fall into our atmosphere and burn up, creating spectacular streaks of light ...

As the Parker Solar Probe probe orbits the sun, it will experience extreme radiation and temperatures as high as 1,377C - close to the melting point of steel. Dr Nicky Fox, the British-born project sc...

The Perseid Meteor Shower is one of the most reliable and visible meteor showers of the year, and it's expected on Sunday August 12. Perseid meteors were known to appear from the constellation Perse...

A last-minute technical hitch forced controllers at the Florida space centre to cancel the night-time launch of the Parker Solar Probe, announcing that they would try again on Sunday. The spacecraft e...

Morgan Hill, San Martin, Gilroy and Hollister early Wednesday, Aug.8, began experiencing brown, hazy skies, the smoke impacts from the Mendocino Complex Fire and other wildfires . These potential neg...

Hurricane-force winds will extend outward up to 40 miles (65km) from the centre and tropical-storm-force winds will extend up to 115 miles (185km). NOAA's Central Pacific Hurricane Center (CPHC) not...

And even though there won't be as many shooting stars as in past years - in 2016, for example, there were as many as 200 visible meteors per hour - there will still be a boatload this weekend , wit...

Ken Balcomb with the Center for Whale Research said the southern resident orca J35 was spotted Thursday in the Strait of Juan de Fuca off the south shore of Vancouver Island. The last time a south...

The partial solar eclipse will start at 4:02 a.m. E.T. on August 11 and the moon will reach its maximum coverage of the sun at 5:46 a.m. E.T., according to NASA . When the moon completely covers ...

The peak days will be Saturday night and Sunday night. "The reason we see the Perseids is because the earth travels through the tail of a comet", Kat Kelly, an astronomer at Vancouver's H.R. They ...

This year, the viewing opportunities are about as good as they can get. StormCenter 2 Severe Weather Specialist Brad Spakowitz says the meteors are remnants of Comet Swift-Tuttle. He's also the foun...

If the weather is good in the morning, when the eclipse starts (around 4:02 a.m. E.T.), then it may become the most viewed solar eclipse of the year. However, for those who can see it, during a tota...

NASA is close to launching a spacecraft on a voyage to the sun that will give scientists their closest-ever view of the star. At 3:33 a.m. EDT, the Parker Solar Probe will launch from Space Launc...

Vancouver Aquarium's head veterinarian, Dr. Martin Haulena, examined the orca. They were able to obtain a breath sample from the juvenile female orca to help assess any infection she might have and...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe will get almost seven times closer to the sun than previous spacecraft. Thomas Zurbuchen, from NASA's Science Mission Directorate, said: "By studying our star, we can learn...

Unable to feed their livestock, many have been forced to sell or slaughter stock, sending the cattle industry into a decline that could take years to recover. Conditions are similarly dire in Queensla...