Genalyn Corocoto

Governments should find ways to raise $100 billion yearly for the Green Climate Fund, which was created in December last year, which will help countries cope with global warming.

China’s Shenzhou-8 has docked with the target orbiter Tiangcong-1 for the second time on Monday, marking the second successful docking between two unmanned spacecraft in orbit.

The Russian Phobos-Grunt mission is not yet considered lost, and space officials have until December to try to reestablish contact, re-program the probe and continue its mission to the Martian moon. After which, it may fall to Earth in January, according to a Russian space official.

Efforts of Russian space officials to salvage the Phobos-Grunt mission have not been successful and in a worst case scenario, the spacecraft could re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere but will not likely hit a populated area.

The Earth’s core, which is some 3,000km (1,900 miles) below sea level, will never be reached by scientists but a new experiment will attempt to unravel the mysterious processes at the center of the planet.

Three astronauts who will join the International Space Station crew were launched into orbit at 0415 GMT Momday morning from the Baikonour Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and are expected to arrive at the orbiting outpost Wednesday.

Experts have allayed the fears of many believers that a gigantic “killer solar flare” could destroy Earth in 2012, when the solar activity ramps up its standard 11-year cycle, noting that the sun does not have enough energy to send a killer flare 93 million miles to destroy Earth.

A global climate change affecting Earth for about 150,000 years could have happened 56 million years ago due to the release of massive amounts of carbon from methane hydrate that was frozen under the seafloor.

The solar system may have had five giant planets instead of four but ejected one, thus sparing the Earth.

Sixty nine young dwarf galaxies brimming with star formation were recently uncovered by NASA’s Hubble Telescope.

Today’s date is written as 11/11/11 numerically, and many believers have put meanings to these numerical phenomenon.

Russian space officials are still hopeful that the Phobos-Grunt mission could still reach the Martian moon Phobos, even as it said that if the spacecraft can no longer be salvaged, it could come crashing back to earth in two weeks.

A proposed mission, called the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) is in the works that would unveil the dark heart of a neutron star. NICER was selected by the NASA for study as a potential Explorer Mission of Opportunity in September this year and thus will receive $250,000 to conduct an 11-month implementation concept study.

A new breakthrough for obese people is in the works after a new study has found that cutting off blood vessels that nourish fat tissues could destroy body fat resulting in weight loss.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) called on governments to shift away from carbon-intensive fossil fuels in the next five years to avert averting climate catastrophes.

The Russian spacecraft that launched the Phobos-Grunt mission apparently got stuck in Earth orbit after its own thrusters failed to fire and send the spacecraft toward Mars.

They are among the Earth's toughest organisms, but can they survive on a moon of Mars?

MetOp-B, Europe’s second polar-orbiting satellite dedicated to monitoring climate and improving weather forecasts, willl be launched in six month’s time.

Can you endure 17 months in isolation? The six-man crew of the Mars500 mission passed the tough challenge of being ‘away’ for that long, and with flying colors.

There are many speculations surrounding the date November 11, 2011. For many numerologists, metaphysicists, psychics and their followers, occultists and conspiracy theorists, it is an ominous date. But for others, 11/11/11 is just another date.

Russia will launch this Wednesday a risky three-year mission that will land on mysterious Martian moon Phobos and will bring back soil samples back to Earth.

The flyby on Nov. 8 of Asteroid 2005 YU55, which is the size of an aircraft carrier, has generated a lot of excitement particularly among scientists and astronomers.

Environmental hazards and contaminants which are invisible to the eye can be recorded by a new ‘hyperspectral’ camera.

A new breakthrough has been discovered to help persons suffering from Parkinson’s disease with the successfully growing brain cells from stem cells and grafted into animal brains.

The International Space Station is being considered for a shorter ‘Mars’ mock mission after a six-man, four-nation crew ‘arrived’ from a 520 day mock mission from ‘Mars.’

The health risks associated with eating well-done meat may have been underestimated.It has long been known that heat-processing of food, like grilling or frying, can lead to the formation of carcinogenic substances, the so-called food mutagens. But a new study has found that the harmful effects of consuming well done meat may have been underestimated.

There is no reason to panic when Asteroid 2005 YU55, passes by the Earth on Tuesday.

China now has its fifth space outside of its territory with the acquisition of a space tracking station in Dongara, about 350 kilometers north of Perth in western Australia.

The world’s most powerful particle collider Large Hadron Collider, has surpassed its objectives for 2011, according to a statement released by CERN.