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Marine Biologists Pull 88 Pounds of Plastic from Whale's Stomach

Staff at the D' Bone Collector Museum picked up the whale from a beach in the southern Philippines and were met with a grisly discovery when they performed th...

Rugged, eruptive surface of Bennu forces a rethink on asteroid sampling attempt

OSIRIS-REx's observations also appear to confirm the presence of hydrated minerals all over the ancient object. After two years crossing the solar system, the...

Cyclone Trevor to sweep across far north of Cape York

Cyclone Trevor is heading for the Queensland coast but residents of recently- flooded Townsville are unlikely to be drenched again. Lockhart River Mayor Wayne...

Orangutan blinded after being shot 74 times with air gun

The conservation center also shared images of a 3-month-old orangutan, which had been found with a fractured arm. Villagers spotted the severely wounded orang...

'Super Worm Moon' rises on first day of Spring

It's simply when the moon appears larger than a normal full moon. The full moon will occur at around 8:43 p.m. C.T. on Thursday (March 20) just a few hours af...

Super Worm Moon: Final supermoon of 2019 arrives with spring

EST on March 21, the U.S. The month's full moon gets its wormy name from the time of year it takes place. The Equinox Super Worm Moon will rise on the same ...

ME students join in global protest over inaction on climate change

Thunberg, 16, who led the first climate-change strike by students past year in Europe, was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday. Numerous students ...

EPA bans a chemical used in paint strippers but leaves a loophole

The prohibition on consumer sales starts 180 days after the effective date of the final rule, which provides time for establishments selling this chemical to co...

United States detects meteor explosion 10 times the energy as atomic bomb

The space agency's analysis shows that the meteor, probably a few metres wide, barrelled into Earth's atmosphere at 72,000mph and exploded at an altitude of 16 ...

California Drought Officially Over After Seven Years

The state imposed its first mandatory water restriction to address the drought, urging the public to lower water consumption and prohibiting outdoor landscapi...

CBBC Newsround: Red Nose Day Round-up 2019

The mass venture brought to a close their week's fundraising activities which also included putting teachers in stocks; selling red noses; and a flash-mob perfo...

Latest crew arrives at International Space Station

Two astronauts who survived a Soyuz rocket launch failure on October 11, 2018, complete their journey to the International Space Station on Thursday, March ...

Human speech sounds evolved because of our diet, study says

The study found that, on average, hunter-gatherer societies - with less access to processed and softer food - have only 27 per cent the number of labiodentals o...

Delta IV WGS-10 rocket launch from Cape Canaveral on March 15

The "heavy" version of the Delta IV - a triple core version with heavy-lift capabilities - will remain available for military and NASA missions as needed. The...

Bangkok students strike against climate change

She's also watched her home city swelter under heatwaves in recent years. She says the science on climate change is clear, and the time for action is now....

Russian crew blasts off to International Space Station

Expedition 59 has NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin joining NASA astronaut Anne McClain, Roscosmos station com...

Arcata High Students Will Participate in Tomorrow's Global Youth Climate Strike

She was nominated by three Norwegian MPs. If she wins the award, Thunberg will become the youngest recipient since Malala Yousafzai , who was just 17 when ...

New crew launching to space station on Thursday

Expedition 59 has NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin joining NASA astronaut Anne McClain, Roscosmos station com...

Swedish Environmental Activist Greta Thunberg, 16, Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

One year on, her sign has been translated into dozens of languages and her school strike protest has spread to more than 70 countries. Since then, Thunberg's ac...

Scientists claim to have 'reversed time' with quantum computer

The research includes Lead researcher Dr Gordey Lesovik, head of the Laboratory of the Physics of Quantum Information at the Moscow Institute of Physics & Techn...

Stephen Hawking's life is set to be celebrated with a 50p coin

The Royal Mint shared a video of the coin on Twitter, saying that the coin is in commemoration of Hawking's "outstanding contribution to science". The Royal M...

The viral 'Trashtag Challenge' encourages people to clean up litter

The post went viral and was shared more than 300K times when more people, not only "bored teens" started going out to clean and maintain areas that need it. T...

NASA releases the final panorama that Opportunity took on Mars

It's a panorama of Mars' Perseverance Valley, where Opportunity spent plenty of time and ultimately perished. These two thumbnails, with the faint sun near th...

First person on Mars likely to be a woman

The moon apparently isn't almost as dry as scientists once thought. That's the message from researchers using data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to d...

Nasa orbiter spots water molecules moving around on Moon

First, this is the first time an orbiting spacecraft has been used to so closely observe the movement of water molecules on the surface of a body like a moon,...

Local students to cut class in second climate strike

Legislature to participate in a global student strike for the climate. Last week, a group of 40 students from across Ireland, including Saoi, met in Dublin ...

Toyota's making a moon rover for Japan

A spokesman for Toyota, which plans to ramp up fuel-cell cars as a zero-emission alternative to gasoline vehicles, said the project would give the company a c...

NASA says the first person on Mars will likely be a woman

NASA bosses announced samples of lunar dust from the Apollo 15,16 and 17, which took place between July 1971 and December 1972, will be analysed for the first t...

Stephen Hawking's ex-nurse barred from practicing for 'not providing appropriate care'

Mrs Dowdy worked for Professor Hawking between 1999 and 2004 and again from July 2013 until being handed an interim suspension in March 2016. Professor Hawkin...

Air pollution causes more deaths than smoking — WHO Report

A further 29,000 deaths in Britain were also linked to air pollution which exacerbated other conditions such as cancer, diabetes and chronic lung disease. In ...