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Rover that will search for life on Mars named after Rosalind Franklin

The ExoMars mission is created to search for evidence of life on Mars. The name was revealed Thursday by astronaut Tim Peake and Science Minister Chris Skid...

Melting ice sheets may cause 'climate chaos,' says scientist

The collaboration, led by Associate Professor Nick Golledge from Victoria University of Wellington's Antarctic Research Center and involving scientist...

Hubble discovers mysterious dark storm on Neptune

However, unlike on Earth, the seasons on Neptune and fellow planet Uranus, last decades rather than months. "Two other dark storms were discovered by the Voya...

Bees can solve basic maths problems

Previous year scientists discovered that the tiny honeybee brain could understand the concept of zero , something only a handful of animals can grasp. Declin...

Tokyo's 2020 Olympic medals to be made from discarded phones, cameras

Tokyo's organising committee in 2017 launched a project to collect assorted electronic waste - including old smartphones and laptops - from the public to collec...

Our Milky Way galaxy is truly warped

The stars on which his team's map is based - known as classical Cepheids - provided substantial measuring accuracy. That database allowed the team to develop ...

MarCo spacecraft unlikely to be heard from again says NASA

Having travelled well past Mars, the twin CubeSats seem to have reached their limit, Nasa said in a statement. The pair played a key role in the InSight lan...

Tiny satellites fall silent after proving new tech at Mars

The relatively low-priced satellites were the first time that CubeSats had entered the space between planets. The success of the MarCO mini satellites - named...

2018 Was Fourth Hottest Year On Record — NOAA/NASA

The warming trends are most evident in the Arctic , NASA said. Scientists warn that if we're to avoid the worst affects of climate change , we cannot allo...

SpaceX's Crew Dragon suffers third straight setback

The space agency says the extra time will be used to complete necessary testing and reviews as well as train flight controllers and mission managers. Though the...

Nissan cancels plans to build the new X-Trail auto in UK

A letter leaked to the Financial Times suggested Britain promised £80million in support to Nissan as part of a major investment in the plant just four month...

Fourth Hottest Year On Record, Says NASA

NOAA said the average temperature for the contiguous U.S.in 2018 was 53.5 degrees Fahrenheit, making it a warmer-than-average year for the 22nd year in a row....

Chinese Satellite Reveals Image of Moon’s Far Side and Earth Together

The Dwingeloo Radio Observatory in the Netherlands reports that the photo was captured by China's Longjiang-2 satellite on February 3rd, 2019. The photo was...

Harvard Astronomer Revels in Spaceship Theory

Since publishing a highly controversial paper on the recent interstellar visitor to our solar system, writes Avi Selk in the Washington Post , Abraham Loeb, ...

Chinese satellite captures moon and Earth like you've never seen them

Now, a new photo from a Chinese satellite captures a rare look at both full discs as seen from behind the moon. The photo was taken with a camera linked to an...

Unexpected magnetic north pole changes mean new world magnetic model map

At the moment, the northern magnetic pole is moving away from the Canadian Arctic and toward Siberia. But its swift pace toward Siberia in recent years at a r...

Trump to nominate Colorado native David Bernhardt to be Interior secretary

In formally sending Bernhardt's nomination to the Senate, Trump wrote on Twitter that Bernhardt was doing "a fantastic job" as acting secretary and deserved...

World’s newest island is covered in mysterious mud and vegetation

A team from Nasa visited in October - after previously studying the island using only satellite imagery - and Slayback detailed their findings in a Nasa blog p...

Check your compass: The magnetic north pole is on the move

Over the last 780,000 years, fossil records indicate that the poles have moved and switched a number of times , with no recognizable harm to living organisms. ...

The Milky Way in a twist

Scientists have known since the 1950s that the spiral-shaped Milky Way's disk is warped, bending by thousands of light-years at its outskirts. But the resea...

Climate change could mean blue oceans as heat kills phytoplankton

The phytoplankton's chlorophyll, which absorbs blue and reflects green. She says that current methods for monitoring phytoplankton provide information about loc...

Oceans to turn bluer due to global warming

Hickman said: "Crudely speaking, where the water is now quite blue because the phytoplankton [have a] relatively low biomass, you are going to see the water get...

Ohio Woman Found Dead As Polar Vortex Begins Retreat

In Winnipeg, the capital of Manitoba, temperatures were -40C (-40F), with wind chill factors making it feel like -50C (-58F). It is so cold that rail workers in...

Genealogy company allowing Federal Bureau of Investigation to use private DNA database

This is a new development that users were never consulted about which started with one case and morphed into what it is now according to a spokesperson. "We a...

HK seizes record eight tonnes of pangolin scales

Pangolin populations have been decimated by a surge in demand, particularly in mainland China. Customs on January 16th, seized about 8,300 kilograms of pango...

British restaurants serve meat from endangered shark species

Sharks threatened with extinction are being sold in chip shops and by fishmongers to unwitting consumers, a study has found. The majority of chip shop samples...

New 3D printer shapes objects with rays of light

Traditional 3D printers build up objects layer by layer in either plastic or metal. This process causes a "stair-step" effect along the edges, according to re...

Study Suggests Neanderthals And Denisovans Lived Together In A Cave

Last year, a bone fragment allowed scientists to extract the genome of a daughter with Neanderthal and Denisovan parents in what would become the first eviden...

Endangered sharks on sale at the chippy

She is calling for more accurate labelling - with fish clearly identified at the "point-of-sale" - so people know what species they are eating and where it came...

Chinas Change-4 probe wakes up after first lunar night

When this rock sample landed on the moon it partially melted and buried beneath the surface. As a result of the tidal locking effect, the moon's revolutio...