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'Stable' glaciers in East Antarctica ‘beginning to melt’

Nasa says it has detected the first signs of significant melting in a swathe of glaciers in East Antarctica . East Antarctica has the potential to reshape coas...

REx finds water on Bennu asteroid within days of arrival

In a key finding for the mission's science investigation, data obtained from the spacecraft's two spectrometers, the OSIRIS-REx Visible and Infrared Spectromete...

NASA releases first-ever audio recording from Mars

Pressure changes generated by the moving air were picked up directly by InSight's Auxiliary Payload Sensor Subsystem (APSS), which is created to record mete...

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft is now flying through the stars

Like its sister spacecraft Voyager 1 (which crossed this boundary in 2012), Voyager 2 is now traveling in the space between stars. The space probe crossed the...

NASA's InSight Lander Sends Back Sounds of Mars

NASA released the spacecraft InSight , which depicted his robotic arm with a length of nearly two meters. 'The solar panels on the lander's sides are flawles...

China’s mission to land spacecraft on moon’s unexplored dark side

The moon's far side is known as the "dark side" because it faces away from Earth and remains comparatively unknown. The Chang'e 4 mission will launch toward t...

First Ministers' Meeting Wraps Up With Little Drama And Not Much Accomplished

Alberta and Saskatchewan are especially concerned about the bill, and claim it will throw up more barriers for major resource projects. The Friday morning beg...

Trump's EPA proposes looser carbon limits on new coal plants

EPA Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler, a former coal industry lobbyist , echoed that argument in announcing the proposed rule change. Nevertheless, Doniger...

SpaceX Falcon 9 First Stage Spins Out Of Control, Lands In Ocean

Ocean platform landings have proven a bit trickier, but SpaceX has managed to stick the landing, whether on land or sea, 32 times in all. However, as soon as ...

Chinese probe heads for far side of the moon

The moon's far side is also known as the dark side because it faces away from Earth and remains comparatively unknown. The Chang'e 4 mission is a step in ...

SpaceX launches cargo to space station

Earlier this week, the company launched 64 satellites (and a art project known as the Orbital Reflector ) in what was the largest rideshare mission in history....

This is What Mars Sounds Like, Courtesy of NASA InSight

As new Science Minister I am excited to see what more we can achieve on land and in outer space. Through the Government's Industrial Strategy, we are driving th...

Numbers for the BC government's climate change plan

Every new building built in B.C. will be "net-zero energy ready" by 2032. There are also aggressive plans to get more clean cars and trucks on the road, as well...

China set to launch the first ever rover to Moons far side

For the mission to be possible, a communications satellite was launched earlier this year - in May - to relay its signals back to Earth. Though often referred...

NASA spacecraft arrives at ancient asteroid | Life , Sci&Tech

Calculating its exact mass lets scientists get an even better handle on its future orbits according to OSIRIS-REx's flight navigator Coralie Adam. Campins is on...

New Study Shows Just How Frighteningly Fast Greenland Is Melting

Greenland's massive ice sheets contain enough water to raise global sea levels by 23 feet , and a new study shows that they are melting at a rate "unpreceden...

NASA says earth may have been visited by aliens

Though he acknowledges that we don't now know how to efficiently cross distances, he says "we are able to fathom possibilities of achieving much greater underst...

Soyuz arrives at ISS on first manned mission since October failure

PT. Following a six-hour journey making four orbits of Earth, the crew will dock the Soyuz to the station's Poisk module to begin their mission on the orbit...

Seal with eel stuck up its snout gets help from nosy scientists

The photo of the adorable and mildly uncomfortable-looking seal with an eel dangling from its nostril was shared by the Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program,...

Osiris-Rex: Nasa probe arrives at Asteroid Bennu

This is NASA's first mission to a near-Earth asteroid . This picture shows the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's view of Bennu during the final phase of its journey ...

SpaceX suffers 'bummer' landing as rocket's first-stage booster crashes on re-entry

The booster toppled over but remained afloat, and SpaceX was sending out boats to tow the stage back to the harbor at neighboring Port Canaveral. Recovered boos...

Save millions of lives by tackling climate change, says WHO

He told global leaders at the conference that Poland "has made huge achievements" in becoming more energy efficient over the past 25 years. Fiji's prime minis...

Here’s how to watch SpaceX’s Dragon take off for the space station

Twenty years ago this week, Cabana commanded the shuttle mission that carried up the first USA part of the space station. However, the launch was marred by a ...

Tropical Cyclone Owen forms off north Queensland coast

Meanwhile, the Bureau of Meteorology is also monitoring Cyclone Owen, which is about 1000km east of Cairns. The Category 1 system will deepen overnight and ...

Sir David Attenborough Lays Into World Leaders At UN Climate Change Summit

Guterres also urged negotiators not to forget that the challenges they face pale in comparison to the difficulties climate change already is causing millions of...

Cremains Sent to Space Aboard SpaceX Rocket, Report Says

For one USA family, it meant fulfilling the final wish of their 36-year-old son who died in November 2016. The launch is part of a rideshare mission by Space...

WB promises $200B in 2021/25 climate cash

Kristalina Georgieva, World Bank CEO said: "People are losing their lives and livelihoods because of the disastrous effects of climate change ". Recall tha...

Russian Soyuz rocket successfully launches three astronauts to ISS

Speaking in French, he described his first sunrise seen from space as "breathtaking". "I know that it's something that means a lot to him and his family and t...

Black Holes Resemble Fountains Not Donuts: Astronomers

The researchers of Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA ) have found that the rings of gas surrounding the black holes are not simple donut sha...

Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques set to launch into space

The launch came less than two months after a booster failure forced a Soyuz spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and United States astronaut Ni...