India launches PSLV-C35 with 8 satellites

India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle has launched three satellites each from India and Algeria, and one each from Canada and the United States, from one rocket into two different orbits.
26 September 2016, 11:27 AM

NASA to reveal 'surprising' activity on Jupiter's moon Europa

There's something going on beneath the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa. But what? NASA teases a "surprising" announcement, based on Hubble Space Telescope images of the celestial body, which many experts believe could contain a subsurface ocean, even possibly some form of life.
24 September 2016, 12:14 PM

2,100-yr-old human skeleton found at mysterious Antikythera shipwreck

An international team of archaeologists excavating the famous Antikythera shipwreck in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Greece has found the remains of a human skeleton among the 2,100-year-old wreckage, reports Science Alert.
21 September 2016, 05:27 AM

Stone Age mummy still revealing secrets, 25 years on

A dead man, found by hikers 25 years ago near the Austrian-Italian border, turns out to have died more than 5,000 years ago.
19 September 2016, 10:29 AM

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket explodes during test firing in Florida

An explosion destroys a Falcon 9 rocket belonging to Elon Musk's SpaceX during routine test firing at Cape Canaveral in Florida.
1 September 2016, 14:07 PM

New fossils show life on Earth at least 3.7bn years old

Life on Earth is even older than we thought, says Australian scientists as they unveiled fossils dating back a staggering 3.7 billion years.
1 September 2016, 11:58 AM

Fall from tree may have caused death of 'Lucy' the famed fossil

Lucy, one of the best known ancestors of humans to ever roam the earth, may have died after a fall from a tree, University of Texas researchers said on Monday after studying her 3.18-million-year-old fossilized remains.
30 August 2016, 04:59 AM

Buried tectonic plate reveals hidden dinosaur- era sea

A previously unknown tectonic plate — one that has been swallowed up by the Earth — has been discovered in the Philippine Sea, according to a recent study, reports Live Science.
28 August 2016, 05:56 AM

Earth-like planet found circling star nearest to the sun

Scientists have discovered a planet that appears to be similar to Earth circling the star closest to the sun, potentially a major step in the quest to find out if life exists elsewhere in the universe.
24 August 2016, 18:36 PM

Study finds ancient Iceman wore hat made of bear skin

Scientists say Oetzi the Iceman wore clothes made of brown bear pelt and roe deer when he died in the Alps 5,300 years ago.
19 August 2016, 04:48 AM

Nissan revolution: Could new petrol engine make diesel obsolete?

Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co has come up with a new type of gasoline engine it says may make some of today's advanced diesel engines obsolete.
15 August 2016, 05:33 AM

Long in the tooth: Greenland shark may live 4 centuries

The Greenland shark, a big and slow-moving deep-ocean predator that prowls the frigid waters of the Arctic and North Atlantic, can claim the distinction of being the planet's longest-living vertebrate, with a lifespan perhaps reaching about 400 years.
12 August 2016, 05:30 AM

Mystery mummified monster discovered in Siberia diamond pit

A strange mummified creature has been discovered at the heart of a diamond pit in the Sakha Republic, in northern Siberia, according to International Business Times.
11 August 2016, 09:53 AM

Facial reconstruction made of Bronze Age woman

Scientist makes facial reconstruction of a young woman who died more than 3,700 years ago.
30 July 2016, 06:37 AM

Belgian scientists make water-from-urine machine

A team of scientists at a Belgian university say they have created a machine that turns urine into drinkable water and fertilizer using solar energy.
26 July 2016, 14:11 PM

Solar Impulse completes historic round-the-world trip

The first round-the-world solar powered flight has been completed, after the Solar Impulse aircraft touched down in Abu Dhabi.
26 July 2016, 04:45 AM

Oil might be the reason dinosaurs are extinct

A recent study suggests that a meteor impact 66 million years ago on an oil rich region of Yucatan Peninsula led to the death of the dinosaurs.
22 July 2016, 14:52 PM

Your next car could run on pee

A team of researchers based at the University of the West of England in Bristol has developed a method for turning human effluent into electricity.
18 July 2016, 06:07 AM

First image released from world's super radio telescope

Even operating at a quarter of its eventual capacity, South Africa's MeerKAT radio telescope showed off its phenomenal power Saturday, revealing 1,300 galaxies in a tiny corner of the universe where only 70 were known before.
17 July 2016, 05:55 AM

'Healing' detected in Antarctic ozone hole

Researchers say they have found the first clear evidence that the thinning in the ozone layer above Antarctica is starting to heal.
1 July 2016, 07:01 AM