NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft readying for huge Pluto photo shoot
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft finally nears its long-awaited encounter with Pluto, the first of many approach phases that will conclude with the first close-up...
Our earliest primate ancestor lived in trees and looked like shrews
When we think of our earliest primate ancestors we do not think of tree-dwelling creatures that looked like squirrels or shrews and weighed less...
Speed of light slowed down by Scottish scientists who changed shape of photons
Scottish scientists say they slowed down the speed of light in free space for the first time by applying a mask to an optical...
Kemp’s ridley sea turtle washed up on Cumbrian beach dies
A Kemp’s ridley sea turtle that was found washed up on a beach in Cumbria, North West England, has died. It was one of...
Mars helicopter being tested at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is testing a Mars helicopter that would fly around the Red Planet, scouting at low altitude and helping the...
Arctic ice cap sliding into ocean at accelerating speed
According to satellite images, a remote Arctic ice cap has lost more than 50 meters of thickness since 2012, which is about one-sixth of...
Speed of light slowed down in free space for first time
Scientists from the University of Glasgow and Heriot-Watt University said they managed to slow down light in free space for the first time. Their...
OnSight will help scientists work virtually on Mars, NASA and Microsoft team up
Microsoft and NASA have got together to develop a software that will enable scientists to work virtually on Mars. Called OnSight, the software is...
Rosetta probe provides fascinating clues about comet formation
The Rosetta probe, which is orbiting Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, is helping scientists understand how comets were formed. New photographs of the icy object show it...
Doomsday clock two minutes closer to humankind’s destruction
The Doomsday Clock, a symbolic clockface that represents how close we are to our own destruction, moved from five to three minutes to midnight...