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Government announces waste and recycling overhaul

The changes come as part of a wider government overhaul to waste management procedures, which will also see businesses footing the bill for the cost of disposin...

NASA is reconstructing the InSight lander site here on Earth

The mock landing site is as close to real Martian terrain as the researchers can simulate in a working lab. "Seismometer deployment is as important as landi...

Japan to resume commercial whaling after leaving IWC

The agency said officials haven't made a final decision but are considering the step. Japan has previously threatened to quit the IWC, arguing that the morato...

Researchers Use Laser to Shrink Objects to Nanoscale

While scientists are finding ways to add tiny robotic particles to drugs for cancer that can seek out only the cancerous cells, MIT's new technology could be us...

Japan to resume commercial whaling

Japan insists whale stocks have now recovered sufficiently to allow commercial hunting to resume. The decision, which will be announced by the end of this yea...

Rocket launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base

The rocket had been scheduled to launch at 5:44 p.m. from the military base in Santa Barbara County. The rocket will carry a classified satellite for the Nation...

The Christmas Comet is coming our way!

Monday evening would be the most attractive evening for Michiganders to see Comet 46P/Wirtanen, in any other case generally known as the Christmas comet . The ...

Next Generation GPS Satellite Launch Postponed by 1 Day

SpaceX now has an additional four GPS III missions on contract, all of which will be launched on Falcon 9. Weather forced a cancelation of what would be the com...

New finding pushes origin of feathers back by 70 million years

Scientists have discovered feathers appeared 70 million years earlier than first thought, and were found on flying reptiles called pterosaurs. An global team ...

Talks adopt 'rulebook' to put Paris climate deal into action：The Asahi Shimbun

Greta Thunberg, a 15-year-old student from Sweden, captured the attention of the world recently when she shamed climate change negotiators at a United Nations ...

Saturn’s iconic rings will disappear millions of years from now

NASA estimates that in about 300 million years the rings will be entirely gone. As you may remember from science class or The Magic School Bus , the rings of...

Nations inch towards climate deal at marathon UN summit

Comparability and transparency are important, given that the Paris agreement is based on mutual trust and sanctions is not provided for, if countries are to m...

New generation of Global Positioning System satellites launching

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will carry a new Global Positioning System satellite into orbit around Earth on Tuesday - the first of several launches scheduled f...

Virgin Galactic Rocket Plane Soars to Edge of Space

The next test flight could come as early as Thursday with two pilots taking Virgin Space Ship Unity high above California's Mojave Desert. "We made it to spac...

Watch this guy glitter bomb package thieves in the ultimate revenge

He then went to the police but was told they couldn't do anything to help him. Well, Rober took this to heart: after all, as a former NASA engineer who had cr...

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket ready for first national security mission

Encapsulated in the SpaceX payload fairing is a GPS III satellite, the first of the next-generation of Global Positioning System satellites to be put into o...

Saturn losing rings at 'worst-case-scenario' rate

The innermost rings disappear as they rain onto the planet first, very slowly followed by the outer rings. It's those interactions that cause the material be ca...

Watch booby-trapped Amazon package cover thieves in glitter and fart spray

Rober, a former NASA engineer who worked on the Curiosity rover , put his smarts to a more earthly concern recently: stopping jerks who pilfer holiday package...

Comet 46P/Wirtanen to be visible in closest flyby in 70 years

It's formally known as Comet Wirtanen. That may seem far, but it is actually among the 10 closest comet approaches since 1950. "This will be the closest comet...

Crocodile warning after 'incredible' Queensland flooding

The teenager, who was swimming with friends, was carried away by rapids at about 4pm. The area has had torrential rain as ex-tropical Cyclone Owen made its ...

Poacher ordered by judge to watch Bambi once a month in jail

David Berry Jr . pleaded guilty on December 6 to charges of taking wildlife illegally. The Missouri Department of Conservation said information from the inv...

New Zealand's Rocket Lab shoots 13 tiny cube satellites into orbit

The Electron rocket lifted off on Sunday evening from the world's only private orbital launch pad on the Mahia Peninsula, carrying a payload of 10-cm (3.9-inch)...

Nuclear-powered 'tunnelbot' to search for life on Jupiter's moon Europa

Between 1995 and 2003, NASA's Galileo spacecraft made observations of the moon - which hint that there might be an ocean buried a mile or more beneath the ice...

Virgin Galactic celebrates as tourism rocket ship reaches space

Most recently, Richard Branson , the 68-year-old billionaire who founded Virgin Galactic , claimed that the company would reach space before Christmas. Beside...

What you’ll see on Virgin Galactic’s $345,000 trip to space

Today's flight is one step closer to Virgin Galactic's goal of taking paying passengers into space. It returned safely to Earth after the flight. "Today we ...

The 'Christmas Comet' Is Coming to Town. Here's How to See It

Hamilton in Santa Clara County, California. The brightest comet of 2018 will streak past Earth right after the peak of the Geminid meteor shower . If you a...

Voyager 2 Spacecraft Now In Interstellar Space

To send Voyager 2 data to scientists on earth . Its mission to explore the distant icy worlds of our star system ended when it reached Neptune in 1989. "Th...

'Flurry of shooting stars' to light up the sky

This time lapse of the 2017 Geminid meteor shower was taken in Sierra Nevada, Granada. Nature's best show of the year will be visible for all to see tonight...

The brightest comet of the year will be visible this Sunday

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 ...

Russian cosmonauts perform space surgery to take samples from mysterious Soyuz hole

Roscosmos and NASA both opened their own investigations of the hole, which was 2mm wide and appeared in August on a Russian Soyuz capsule. When it was first...