The European Space Agency, counterpart of NASA in the U.S., is willing to provide substantial funding for cost-effective missions to outer planets and outside the solar system as well as studies about the Earth's northern or southern lights and particle acceleration in the sun.
Scientists will launch the Solar Orbiter in 2017 to fly closer to the Sun than ever before in the history of space exploration. In another endeavor, European Space Agency will also launch a space telescope called Euclid in 2019 to explore the "Dark Energy."
Residents at Queensland State are outraged on the improper handling and management of the Queensland government after it failed to inform residents of the toxic gas coming out from explosive blasts in Queensland's giant open-cut coalmines.
Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean declined to its second lowest level on record last month, satellite observations show.
Environment Minister Vicky Darling has admitted water quality could have contributed to the poor health of fish in the Gladstone Harbour, as fishing and environmental groups have questioned the reliability of her report showing no significant changes were observed in the water analysis,
Scientists from various countries are joining forces in their search for the Siberian Yeti. Scientists estimate that there is a current population of at least several dozen Yeti in Kemerovo and the Altai region, considering reported sightings have tripled since 20 years ago.
The head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) underscored the need for sustained cooperation among nations to achieve significant milestones in space exploration endeavors.
NASA said it expects commercial operators to start transporting cargo to space within months. Both NASA and the European Space Agency said governments are still keen on space development efforts even as there is a rise of private business in the industry.
Get a closer look of the universe – the galaxies, the moon and stars – with the world’s biggest telescope, the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA).
University of Maryland's beautiful and butterfly-roofed WaterShed wins the 2011 Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C., while Appalachian State's Solar Homestead picks up the People's Choice Award.
World's highest peak can now be viewed from the comfort of your personal computer.
The black-footed ferret was declared extinct in 1979, two years before a small band of survivors turned up in Wyoming. And now, after 30 years of rehab, the species is one of America's top conservation success stories.
The mysterious spotted creature was dropped off at the Chinese zoo is in fact a type of possum most likely smuggled into the country as a novelty pet. A Hong Kong animal enthusiast Danny Li contacted the zoo soon enough and informed them it was a spotted cuscus - a marsupial native to northern Australia, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia's Maluku Islands.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) continue to support stellar achievements that vary from technical acts to demonstration of human inventiveness.
Bras, fake limbs and even sex toys can be kept out of the landfill through some innovative programs.
The largest ever ground-based telescope still under construction in a Chilean mountain released its first image from deep space on Monday showing two colliding galaxies 45 million light-years away from the Milky Way.
Not too long ago I was sitting with my step-brother Nicky in a small park in New York City, discussing the afterlife.
Awards will be granted to original discoveries that lead to understanding of the human body or treatment of diseases, says committee secretary.
It was Fermilab’s Tevatron’s demand for the rare and prohibitively expensive superconducting wires that triggered the widespread use of one of the most amazing breakthrough in medical science, the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines, which has become a very popular tool for medical diagnosis.
Scientists have discovered a bacterium that can transform ammonium, commonly found in urine into hydrazine, a rocket fuel.
A massive hole in the earth's ozone layer has appeared over the Arctic this Spring. Five times the size of California, the hole matches the size of the ozone loss over Antartica, researchers said.
The devastation of the ozone layer in the Arctic region has reached an alarming level mainly because of chemicals coming from substances such as chlorofluorocarbons that are being used in appliances such as refrigerators and fire extinguishers.
The demand for UV protection products could increase significantly in the near future with a reported unprecedented depletion of the Ozone layer above the Arctic this year. Decreases in overhead ozone lead to increases in surface ultraviolet radiation which have been known to have adverse effects to humans and other life forms.
Typhoon Nalgae is forecast to strike Vietnam at about 02:00 GMT on Oct. 5, with maximum sustained winds to the region of around120 km/h (74 mph).
US president Barack Obama copped a bit of flak in 2009 for appointing a Harvard law professor to a senior White House regulatory position.
'Jumbo' Humboldt squid are swarming off the U.S. West Coast, echoing past invasions in 2007 and 2010. Experts say it may be a sign of things to come.
Growing your own fish food for aquaponics is the holy grail for many folk wishing to be autonomous and not dependent on commercial fish food pellets.
Now that China has successfully launched its first space laboratory module with an eye towards a manned space station, how will this affect the global space race or will the Chinese just end up competing with itself?
California-based space exploration company Space X announced on Thursday that it is working on an orbital booster system that could fly to space and back and could be the key to colonizing Mars.
NASA's done it before but only in the movies but this time they're going to do it in real life. NASA scientists have announced they are planning to land n astronaut on an asteroid in the near future.
