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Explainer: Mars rover discovers building blocks of life on the red planet

The findings hold a huge significance as it might mean that Gale Crater had habitable conditions similar to the Earth , where life was evolving around that t...

F1 Raceweek: Hamilton seeks to match Schumacher - Canadian Grand Prix in numbers

There are two other teams - Force India and Williams - that use their engines. "But we also know that the battle is more fierce, with ourselves, Ferrari a...

Aletta becomes first hurricane of eastern Pacific season

Dr Kossin said: 'Tropical cyclones over land have slowed down 20 per cent in the Atlantic, 30 per cent in the western North Pacific, and 19 per cent in the Aust...

World's Oldest Footprints Discovered on Ancient Seafloor

So, what type of creature has left behind its mark all those 550 million years ago in China? The authors can't tell exactly what kind of animal made the track...

Three astronauts on their way to the International Space Station

During their stay, the three astronauts will carry out a series of applied surveys and experiments, will take space walks to work outside the ISS ( scheduled f...

Russian Soyuz capsule with 3 astronauts blasts off for space station

The ISS, which is orbiting 400 kilometers above the Earth, is now manned by three astronauts, including two Americans and one Russian. Shkaplerov took a Telst...

Woman injured by bison in Yellowstone National Park after getting too close

On 1 May, a woman from Idaho was slightly injured as she walked on a trail in the park. Ms Hancock, from Santa Rosa, California, was taken to a hospital in Mo...

What has NASA found on Mars? Get set for major announcement

Jen Eigenbrode, a research scientist at Goddard, revealed the first news behind all the hype was the discovery of organic molecules from an ancient lake bed. Th...

Only India can help itself combat pollution: UN Environment head Erik Solheim

This global outlook, developed in cooperation with the Indian government, presents case studies from more than 60 countries. He further explained that Egypt i...

Swimmer ready to start record Pacific crossing

Researchers believe that 92 per cent of the garbage consists of larger pieces of trash, while eight per cent contained microplastics. The plan is for Lecomte ...

New Mars discoveries in ancient lakebed advance case for possible life

The discovery leaves open the possibility that microorganisms once populated the red planet - and still might. . In 2013, it confirmed organic compounds in...

South African farmer captures moment space rock hurtles towards farm

Representatives of the IAU indicated that "the asteroid 2018 LA no longer exists... it impacted the atmosphere on Saturday at a height of 50 kilometers above ...

Small asteroid tracked to atmospheric impact and breakup

This is only the third time that an asteroid with an impact trajectory has been discovered, and only the second time that such a "high level of probability of a...

Kanai to return to earth from space station

A Soyuz capsule carrying Russian Anton Shkaplerov , American Scott Tingle and Japan's Norishige Kanai floated down under a red-and-white parachute for a la...

B.C. judge expands pipeline injunction as protesters use 'calculated' defiance

In a desperate bid to keep its last remaining proposed oil pipeline alive, Canada has made a decision to buy Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain Pipeline system ...

Scientists find dunes on Pluto, likely made of methane ice grains

Further investigation by an global team of geographers, physicists and planetary scientists has now filled in the blanks. The core of the comet idea is that t...

Pilot whale swallowed 7.7kg of plastic bags off Thailand

An autopsy revealed 80 plastic bags weighing up to 8kg (18lb) in the creature's stomach, the veterinary team said. The whale also vomited five bags during the...

OTD in Space - June 4: Falcon 9 Rocket Reaches Orbit

The four-hour launch window opens on Monday, June 4 at 12:29 a.m. EDT. The SES satellite will be one of the company's largest. Air Force and weather officials...

Trump's Coal, Nuke Push Pegged to Security Threats to Gas Pipes

Those plants are owned by some of the president's political allies in the coal industry. It is proposed that the Energy Department would apply emergency authori...

Trump orders ‘immediate steps’ to boost coal, nuclear plants

In a statement, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the ongoing closure of coal and nuclear plants is "leading to a rapid depletion of a cri...

Wondrous dunes on Pluto are made of grains of frozen methane

These closely spaced ice thin ice blades are also found on Earth and are caused by the sublimation of snow in dry air at high altitudes. "These are not just b...

Flooding threat continues in western, coastal North Carolina

A Flash Flood Watch is in effect Friday for Washington D.C. and many areas of Maryland and Virginia until 2 a.m. "If there is a lot of rainfall upstream, th...

240 million year-old ‘mother of all lizards’ found

The scientists discovered that a tiny bone of Megachirella's jaw is only characteristic to the scaly family, the so-called squamate group of reptiles . Simoe...

Lions, tigers and jaguar escape from German zoo - residents warned STAY INSIDE

A flood-hit German town was locked down for several hours Friday over fears that five risky big cats had escaped a local zoo before they were found hiding in th...

Alberto could cost Gulf Coast $1 billion

While Alberto nears the shore, the warning area has been scaled back from the Suwannee River back west to the Florida-Alabama state line. The storm's maximu...

Canadian government to buy troubled Trans Mountain pipeline

Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau made the announcement from Ottawa and says the deal represents a sound investment. "For years and years and years, we've...

Federal government spending $4.5B to buy Trans Mountain pipeline

The options were presented during an early-morning cabinet meeting before ministers made a call on how to proceed. Finance Minister Bill Morneau said that b...

A stronger Alberto to make landfall along Florida panhandle Monday

National Hurricane Center forecasters said that as of 11 a.m., the storm was about 130 miles (210 kilometers) southwest of Tampa. Rick Scott declared a state ...

Alberto to bring widespread, heavy rain to the region

But this is nature. Flooding and strong winds remain the primary threat from Alberto , but there is a marginal chance at a brief spin-up tornado in the southea...

Astronaut Alan Bean, fourth man on the moon, dies at 86

Bean's second mission in 1973 was to America's first space station, Skylab . Alan Bean (R), pictured in November 1969 with his fellow United States astronaut...

NASA's camera melted during Falcon rocket launch, but photos survived

When Ingalls went to recover his gear he discovered that the camera had been covered in debris, but its fiery demise was actually just an unfortunate side effec...

B.C. files lawsuit against Alberta government over Bill 12

He said it would be a "political disaster" for both Morneau and Alberta Premier Rachel Notley if the pipeline in-service date is delayed beyond 2020 because b...

Under the Antarctica discovered the ice ages over two million years

The two other troughs are similarly large. Each of them provides a highway for ice to flow from the larger, stabler East Antarctic Ice Sheet into the smaller,...

Catastrophe that killed dinosaurs created global hothouse for 100,000 years, study says

In the study, researchers use the plant fossil record and the ecology of ancient and modern birds to determine that only ground-dwelling birds were able to su...

Subtropical Storm Alberto forms; watches issued for U.S., Mexico, Cuba

The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to November 30, but like this system, some develop outside of that period. The center of the storm was located ...