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NASA discovers three things that impact Earth's spin

NASA found the melting of the ice, fueled by the release of greenhouse gases, accounted for one third of Earth's wobble. Over the past century, the Earth has dr...

Beluga whale spotted again in River Thames

Conservationists said they hoped the beluga's natural instincts would soon kick in and it would head out of the estuary and back north. Throughout the day, An...

Elon Musk's SpaceX Claims It Will Explore Moon with Lunar Rovers

The first mission will see the company insert an orbiter into lunar orbit, sending a lander down shortly after, while the second mission will include a rover de...

Photos from Japanese space rovers show asteroid is ... rocky

Asteroids like Ryugu, which orbits between Mars and Earth, are hot research commodities. The video, which is composed of 15 frames, was captured on September ...

Jeff Bezos space project lands big rocket partnership

Amazon.com and Blue Origin founder Jeffrey P. Bezos speaks at the Air Force Association's Air, Space & Cyber Conference in Oxon Hill, Md., on September 19. The ...

NASA’s Mars Opportunity rover seen, but still not heard

The storm had been described as the most intense ever observed on Mars, with it at one point covering more than 15.8 million square miles, or roughly the area o...

Interstellar object 'Oumuamua traced to four possible stellar homes

Well, based on a new study led by astronomer Coryn Bailer-Jones of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, we now have some potential answers to the questio...

Scientists identify earliest known animal 558 mln years ago

The now-extinct animal probably lived in warm shallow seas possibly alongside other squishy Ediacaran critters, National Geographic reports. Via Gizmodo , ...

Martian moons likely forged by ancient impact, study finds

While Phobos' spectrum - the light it reflects, spread out by wavelength to reveal features such as its composition - looks much like that of a D-class astero...

Major flooding lingering more than a week after Florence

They moved the pews to higher ground and watched anxiously for days as the almost black, reeking water from the swollen Waccamaw River rose, even though the hur...

Tropical Storm Kirk, Hurricane Rosa Are Strengthening: NHC

Barnes said. According to the NHC, the centre of Tropical Storm Kirk was located near latitude 12.1 North, longitude 54.3 West and is moving toward the west n...

Seal slaps man in the face with an octopus

After a fun paddle around the peninsula catching waves we spotted a giant male seal fighting an octopus. I wonder if the more that kayaker gets of his new sea...

Charges Dropped Against NC Woman Who Sheltered Animals During Florence

Now charges against Hedges have been dropped, the county announced in a statement Tuesday. Hedges took in the animals during the storm. Hedges sheltered...

Satellite discovered a new planet similar to Earth

This star is visible to the naked eye and is located almost 60 light-years from Earth. The Kepler discovered the majority of the 3,700 exoplanets documented o...

Tiger population nearly doubles in Nepal

According to MailOnline , a survey that was carried out earlier this year counted 235 tigers in Nepal - up from around 121 in 2009. Conservationists used more...

Tropical Storm Kirk intensifies as it nears Barbados

Taking a shift now to the east, what was Subtropical Storm Leslie was also downgraded yesterday, and it doesn't look impressive at all on the satellite. Rapid w...

Mathematician Claims to Have Found Solution for 160-Year-Old Riemann Hypothesis

An unsolved 160-year-old math problem may finally have a solution - but critics are wary. Nobody has proved it, so why should anybody prove it now? The Rieman...

Labour to vote against Brexit deal, open to second referendum

The papers also state that British mineral waters would not be accepted for sale in the EU. Media captionJeremy Corbyn: "We are the opposition party, our job ...

British officials checking reports of a white whale in the River Thames

A rare beluga whale reported to be swimming in the Thames could be "in trouble", conservationists have warned. "Can't believe I'm writing this, no joke - BELU...

Judge restores protections for grizzly bears, blocking hunts

In his decision, he said grizzly bears don't roam everywhere in the West like they used to. A federal judge on Monday restored endangered species protection ...

Federal protections for grizzly bears reinstated

That was set to end this fall, when Wyoming and Idaho planned to allow the killing of 23 grizzlies. How did state and federal officials react? In his ruli...

Giant Iceland volcano Katla 'about to erupt'

Katla is located in south-west Iceland and about 25km from Eyjafjallajokull, which was responsible for the cancellation of 100,000 flights in 2010. There are ...

Total announces major gas discovery off Shetland

Early estimates for the find made by Total, the French oil major, suggest that there could be one trillion cubic feet of gas, equivalent to more than 175 millio...

Widespread damage after tornado hits Ontario and Quebec

Hydro crews were at work this morning trying to untangle and fix fallen power lines, some of which snapped like twigs in the Friday tornadoes that hit the Ottaw...

Elon Musk unveils first tourist for SpaceX 'Moon loop'

Maezawa's interest in the arts is one of the key driving factors in his reasoning to head to the moon. The 42 year old announced the news on Twitter sayin...

19-year-old survives after 48 days adrift in sea

His job had been to light the rompong's lamps, which are created to attract fish, the Jakarta Post newspaper reports. Once a week, someone would come with ...

Japanese space agency lands rovers on asteroid

The team behind the expedition faced a nervous two-day wait for the Minerva-II rovers to send back information, but on Sunday, they confirmed the rovers landed....

TROPICS: Kirk in far southeastern Atlantic

The latest forecast says Kirk was moving west near 14 miles per hour and a westward to west- northwestward motion at a similar forward speed is expected to cont...

Tossed net captures space junk in orbit-cleanup experiment

This is all in the effort to reduce 7.6 tonnes of "space junk" estimated to be floating around the Earth's orbit, some of which is moving at speeds of 48,000 km...

Japan successfully lands rovers on asteroid Ryugu

The MINERVA-II1B rover captured this view of asteroid Ryugu on September 21, 2018 shortly after separating from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabus...