Sci/Environment

NASA’s Juno spacecraft entered safe mode Tuesday just hours before a close approach to the giant planet. The space agency revealed that its Jupiter orbiter temporarily entered into ‘safe mode’ after losing access to the […]

Scientists have spotted a mystery object following a strange path moving from the outer reaches of the solar system towards earth. The object known as L91 has an extreme orbit and takes 20,000 years to […]

So much for global warming – the earth is heading towards a mini ice age, according to experts at Northumberland University, with solar magnetic activity set to drop by up to 60 per cent in the […]

Scientists claim to have solved the age old mystery of why some ships and aircraft vanish in the Bermuda Triangle, a 500,000 km square patch of ocean between Florida, Puerto Rico and Bermuda. A rare […]

Two of the most dangerous earthquake faults in the San Francisco Bay Area are connected, meaning both could rupture simultaneously and unleash major devastation, a new study has found. A previously unseen fault line has […]

American scientists have discovered a mechanism for converting air into fuel, potentially revolutionising the energy industry.  Researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory accidentally discovered a way to convert carbon dioxide into ethanol using nanotechnology. […]

An icy planet with a 20,000-year orbit has been discovered passing through our solar system, leading to the re-emergence of theories about the existence of the mysterious Planet Nine L91, as the icy rock is […]

Sunday’s spectacular supermoon was one of three lunar events that will occur two more times before the end of 2016. For those who missed last night’s supermoon there will be a second “extra-supermoon” this coming […]

Scientific research coming out of Germany suggests that trees are able to communicate with each other and possess an innate intelligence that scientists previously believed only humans possessed.  Forester Peter Wohlleben believes that new research not […]

Astronomers have discovered that our Milky Way is part of a massive intergalactic highway that links 100,000 galaxies containing one hundred quadrillion suns, across 500 million light years of space. Supercluster of galaxies are interconnected […]