Genalyn Corocoto

Recent studies have considered obesity as a modern epidemic, with many adverse effects on a person’s health, such that researchers continue to focus on issues relating to obesity particularly the role of exercise in maintaining a healthy body.

Space tours will soon be a reality with the announcement of the Virginia-based Space Adventure of their plants to offer trips around the moon to space tourists five years from now.

Russia plans to spend almost $12 billion on its Glonass satellite navigation system in 2012-2020, and to build the world's most powerful laser research station at an estimated cost of $1.5 billion.

More than cigarettes and alcohol, social media and email is more addicting, according to the findings of a new study.

A new study at Sydney’s Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute showed that traits can be changed through “epigenetic” changes, which could have implications for a number of trends and changes in our population, such as the obesity epidemic.

Researchers have found new forms of life that are totally unkown in underwater caves in the Bahamas called “blue holes.” These caves can provide clues on how life evolved not only on Earth but possibly on alien worlds, researchers said.

NASA’s spaceship development program enters its third phase by offering funding for two U.S. firms to design and build space transport systems for ferrying astronauts to and from the International Space Station.

UN investigating reports of illegal mining for ice and cites claims of ice theft from the Jorge Montt glacier in Chile.

Scientists are proposing for the regulation of sugar by governments worldwide due to its toxic effect to the human body, much like alcohol and tobacco.

The prediction that the sun's next 11-year activity phase or "Cycle 25” will be one of the weakest in centuries and is likely to decrease until 2100 could mean no solar disaster for now, but scientists said the scenario could be different in 2024.

Scientists have found a potential super-Earth, the best candidate yet to harbor water, and possibly even life, located in the habitable zone of its host star, with more habitable exoplanets expected to be found.

NASA’s prediction that the sun’s next 11-year activity phase or “Cycle 25: will be one of the weakest in centuries and is likely to decrease until 2100, has led some scientists to foresee a “mini ice age” in the future.

Intense eruptions due to solar storms may damage satellites and power infrastructures, but they can also cause the early death for many of the space debris orbiting our planet, experts say.

Cosmic radiation and a low-quality imported component that was vulnerable to the radiation, were the most likely causes of the failure of Russia’s Mars moon probe that crashed to Earth this month, according to Vladimir Popovkin, head of Russia’s space agency.

The International Space Station has maneuvered Jan. 28 to avoid the remaining orbital debris from China's 2007 anti-satellite test, Fengyun 1C, which peppered low-Earth orbit with an estimated 3,000 pieces of shrapnel when it was intentionally destroyed by China five years ago.

The United Nations has recognized Australia’s management of the Great Barrier Reef to exemplify sustainable marine management in a 223-page report which calls for an “ever-green revolution for the 21st century.

A new study showed that concentrations of microplastic in the marine environment, which were traced mostly from synthetic clothes, could be eaten by animals and enter the food chain.

Scientists have proposed a plan to send a nuclear-powered drone to Saturn’s moon Titan, which is 10 times more distant from the sun than Earth and has a methane atmosphere that is four times a dense.

Man’s increasing taste for warm-blooded marine mammals such as dolphins, porpoises and manatees could lead to the destruction of marine life, according to a new study.

Western Australia’s coastal areas from Mardie to Ningaloo including Exmouth and Onslow should prepare for Tropical Storm Iggy, according to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, using data provided by NASA’s Aqua satellite.

A new study revealed that given the complications associated with childbirth, pregnant women are14 times more likely to die due to complications of giving birth than those undergoing legal abortion.

The growing worldwide demand for the gill rakers of Manta rays to be used for medicinal purposes is threatening this species.

A deep sea observatory will be built in the Mediterranean Sea that will help detect elusive particles known as neutrinos, and is expected to reveal new details about supernova and the Big Bang.

Australia's economy has boomed in the last decade, in fact, it was the first to recover from the recession that hit the world recently, according to economists. And because of this strong economic performance, Australia continues to attract overseas skilled workers to fill new positions which are becoming available on a regular basis.

The eruption of the sun on Sunday and Monday with an M8.7 class flare, causing the biggest solar radiation storm since 2003, has revived apprehensions of stronger solar flares in the near future.

A new study by geologists from Curtin University revealed proof of meteorite collisions on the Moon as evidence by the mineral zircon from lunar rock samples recovered during NASA’s Apollo missions.

NASA said it is closely monitoring space weather conditions in order to protect astronauts and its spacecrafts from harmful radiations of the intense solar storm that has been unleashed yesterday.

Claims of signs of life on Venus by a respected Russian scientist have been debunked by experts who said that features seen on pictures from Soviet probe were, in fact, an assortment of camera lens covers and imge blurs.

Patients will soon be relieved from the inconvenience of complicated medical procedures with the development of a new way of creating Terahertz (Hz) or T-rays, a type of radiation that promises to revolutionize medical scanning.