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Chinese rover ‘Jade Rabbit’ drives on far side of the moon

The Chang's-4 lunar probe took off on the early morning hours of December 8 a year ago to explore the far side of the moon from Xichang Satellite Launch Centr...

Extinction risk for 270 species in Ireland, says nature report

Wild Cat and Greater Mouse-eared Bat are among those teetering on the edge of extirpation. Rosie Hails, from the National Trust - the country's largest privat...

Emaciated grizzly bears photographed before hibernation as Canada's salmon population declines

A report released by the Fisheries and Oceans Canada in August revealed the country's climate is warming twice as fast as the global average - directly impact...

ISRO Releases Pictures of Moon Surface Clicked by OHRC

The ISRO said the payload on the Orbiter in its first few days, could detect charged particles and their intensity variations during its first passage through...

Nasa sets first all-women spacewalk after suit flap in spring

Astronauts Christina Koch and Andrew Morgan have just returned to the ISS after changing over a pair of old batteries. Meir said that during the walks they'll...

Trio of astronauts leave ISS and return to Earth

After over 200 days in space, NASA astronaut Nick Hague has returned to Earth aboard a Russian Soyuz crew capsule. He went onboard the ISS on 25 September wit...

Nasa's New Horizon Probe Reveals Snowman-like Shape Of Ultima Thule

This image taken by the Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) is the most detailed of Ultima Thule returned so far by the New Horizons spacecraft. McKean...

Sia reveals battle with neurological disease, has been living with 'chronic pain'

Sia is opening up about the chronic pain she is now suffering from, as well as the other ailments she is facing. Sia said via Twitter that she is now " suf...

8 fearless Arab women who went public with their breast cancer battles

The 67-year-old music executive made a decision to share he had been diagnosed with breast cancer to mark the start of Breast Cancer Awareness month, which runs...

SpaceX picked to launch upcoming NASA moon mission

The company said it chose SpaceX after receiving proposals from "multiple launch providers", although at a May 31 NASA event Steve Altemus, president and chie...

Estimating the weight of free-living whales using drones

From these they were able to obtain length, width and height measurements and develop a model that accurately calculated the body volume and mass of the whale...

Jumping the shark? Kiss will play for them in the ocean - 47abc

Kiss and fans will set sail from Port Lincoln, Australia, on November 18 on The Shark Warrior , a glass-bottom boat that will allow passengers to see the shark...

NASA InSight Mars Lander Captures Marsquakes, Other Martian Sounds

SEIS was created to listen for marsquakes, quakes which, much like earthquakes, are the shaking of Mars' surface or interior as a result of the sudden releas...

Milky Way's neighbor ate up two galaxies - and Earth could be next

Andromeda Galaxy is one of our closest neighbours, at only 2.5 million light-years away from Earth. The discovery offers new clues to what's in store for our...

New organic compounds discovered on Saturn’s Moon Enceladus

Researchers had detected other organic molecules coming from the icy moon before, but this is the first time anyone has detected them dissolved in the water. "T...

Planet named after Pandit Jasraj

A minor planet, between Mars and Jupiter, has been named after Pandit Jasraj , the doyen of Indian classical vocal music. The privilege of naming a planet is f...

First Female Astronaut From Maine Docks At International Space Station

NASA astronaut and Expedition 60 flight engineer Nick Hague, Expedition 60 and Soyuz commander Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, and spaceflight participant Hazzaa...

NASA's InSight lander 'hears' unusual sounds on Mars

These events occurred on May 22, 2019 (the 173rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission) and July 25, 2019 (Sol 235). SEIS calculated their magnitude to be around ...

NASA Issues Final Call for Human Lunar Lander Proposals

NASA's upcoming Artemis missions to the Moon are taking shape, and with a very short deadline of 2024 for a crewed trip to the lunar surface, it's an all-hands...

Is there a black hole hiding right here in our solar system?

Some unknown object was spotted by scientists at the edge of our solar system whose orbits point in the same direction and tilt the same way, hinting towards so...

NASA releases sounds of Mars quake picked up by InSight lander

InSight placed the seismometer on Mars' surface in December, but it took until April for the instrument to detect the first likely marsquake . NASA's scienti...

Severe thunderstorm watch in effect for Niagara

Despite the unseasonably warm weather across the province on Tuesday, the cold is expected to have returned by Wednesday, with average temperatures in Ontario...

Elon Musk unveils new Mars rocket prototype, expects missions in months

Although Starship has quite a bit of testing ahead of it before it's ready to send humans to space, Musk has already sold seats on the spacecraft for a trip...

NASA’s Spitzer Spots Vibrant ‘Cosmic Bubble Bath’ in Milky Way

While the bubbles revealed in the photo appear to be just a few inches across, they span anywhere between 10 and 30 light years, indicating the bubbles have bee...

It's your last chance to put your name on Mars

Filling out the form will also give you an optional chance to sign-up to NASA's newsletter. According to reports, Jim Green, the chief scientist at the USA s...

Black hole swallowing and ripping apart star captured for first time

The star, generally a similar size as our sun, was in the long run sucked into obscurity in an uncommon enormous event that space experts call a tidal disturb...

Gigantic iceberg breaks off Antarctica

The iceberg covers 1,636 square kilometres but its separation is part of the normal cycle and not the result of climate change , the Australian Antarctic D...

This is what the dark side of the moon looks like

The 135-kg new rover is 2 kg lighter than its predecessor and is the lightest rover ever sent to the moon, said Jia Yang, deputy chief designer of the Chang'e...

Body Of Endangered Pygmy Elephant Found With 70 Bullet Wounds

Orangutan Appeal UK founder Sue Sherward, who was incidentally in Sabah, pledged the sum to the RM20,000 reward already offered by the Sabah Wildlife Department...

'Planet Nine' may actually be a black hole

Now, researchers believe that Planet Nine could actually be a primordial black hole - a black hole which formed shortly after the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ...