Fresh pictures from NASA's Dawn spacecraft have provided the sharpest glimpse yet of the bright salt deposits discovered inside a crater on Ceres, the largest...

It is a sharp contrast to just two months ago when the land was parched and water levels continued to plummet. Figures from the City of Cape Town show that da...

It's carving out a path through the disk around the star, which is in the Centaurus constellation. Within these so-called protoplanetary disks - which can be u...

And, luckily, a local team of researchers offered their help, as well as their boat equipped with high-end technologies, the Nautilus . NASA's curator of cos...

Senator Mike Gabbard, who first introduced the bill, labeled SB 271, told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser that "Hawaii is definitely on the cutting edge by banning...

In the meantime, flight tests - such as the ones in Galveston with the F/A-18 Hornet - will help the agency gather data that may one day help lift federal and g...

Reducing air pollution could result in less people developing type 2 diabetes , new research has suggested. Studies from recent years suggested pollution ...

Today scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in Heidelberg and the Sphere instrument consortium at the Very Large Telescope of the European...

In addition, it is banned to fill or maintain a domestic pond (excluding fish ponds), an ornamental fountain (with the exception of such use for commercial purp...

Although it's not illegal to give out single-use bags in NSW and Victoria, IGA, Coles and Woolworths have taken the opportunity to ban them from their stores ...

According to the World Nuclear Association , France generates 75% of its electricity from nuclear plants. The latest drone "attack" follows a series of Gree...

SPHERE was created to study exoplanets and proto-planetary discs using a technique known as high-contrast imaging to filter out the planet's light from th...

The cool down will be short lived, as heat and humidity will return on Tuesday and persist through most of this week. "On Thursday an active cold front will ...

Trump said he was working from a list of 25 conservative nominees the White House released last November, and the Center has requested disclosures for all of th...

Already Mars is unusually bright. "Mars can be faint, or it can be a bright planet". On the night of Friday, July 27, stargazers will witness two relatively...

Despite previously siding with liberal justices in some key cases, Kennedy was a reliable conservative vote during the latest term. That Republican called Kenne...

Dravis said she declined his request, saying she was anxious the call would violate the Hatch Act and that she wanted to avoid potential conflicts of interest...

The Crew Interactive Mobile Companion, or Cimon , is an English-speaking droid roughly the size of a basketball that will help German astronaut Alexander Gers...

In UNC-Chapel Hill, NASA-funded researcher under the leadership of Tamlin Pavelsky, PhD, Global collaborator professor of hydrology, was not for the glory of di...

So, rather than darkened skies, viewers will be treated to a ruddy red visage that's often dubbed a " blood moon " (though the most finicky reserve this term ...

European Southern Observatory teams used a powerful planet-hunting instrument called SPHERE on the Very Large Telescope in the Atacama Desert, Chile, to pro...

PDS 70b is approximately 1.86 billion miles (roughly 3 billion kilometers, or the same distance from Uranus to the Sun) away from the star it orbits, a young ...

Mostly consisting of gas and dust, this orbits around the new star in a wide disk. The planet was found in a gap in this disk, which means it is close to where ...

The planet, named PDS 70b, is careening through the dust cloud as it orbits its star, gathering material on its surface and slowly but surely maturing into what...

Keppler and her colleagues analyzed new and archival observations of a young dwarf star called PDS 70, which is about 5.4 million years old and lies 370 light-y...

Many remembrances focused on that aspect of his life - including near-miss wheelchair crashes. When he turned 75 in January of previous year, Hawking share...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ). This is not the first time Cassini has detected organic molecules on Enceladus , the newly discover...

By comparison, the average distance between Earth and Mars is 225 million kilometres. This is the result of the moon's condition because it passes by the Eart...

When asked about the effect his presidency has already had on the nation's highest court, Trump emphasized that recent major decisions by the conservative maj...

And keep other people in mind, too. Check on the sick, the elderly and those without air conditioning. According to the Eye On The Sky guys, the heat wav...

There is still a heat warning in effect with the temperature at 31 C but feeling more like 41C with the humidity - but with Westernerly gust of 48 km/h accordin...

The new IRB report says that NASA will likely need at least another $830 million and exceed the $8 billion cost cap set in 2010. This week brought more bad ...

The dragon first went to the space station in July 2016, while the Falcon 9 was flying in April this year when it launched a new planet-hunting satellite for ...

From the instance scientist discovered the strangely shaped entity, they were not precisely certain how to categorize it: initially it was a comet, later an ast...

Micheli said, "Oumuamua's discovery is a complete first in this field, and it gave us the first chance to study the object coming from our second star and plane...