SCIENCE

Space junk is a serious enough issue for spacefaring countries to want to look for unconventional methods to clean it up.

Robot scientist Eve helps University of Cambridge researchers in breakthrough discovery that puts bathroom staple into fight against killer disease.

Temperatures at the Australian Open have reached 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) with reports of 69 degrees (156F) being measured on the court surface.

In 2015, some 200,000 saiga antelopes, which is 62% of the global population, living in Kazakhstan died in a matter of three weeks.

Single-use plastics that take five seconds to produce but stays on Earth for 500 years will be targeted, says EU diplomat.

It is unlikely that we will achieve a best case scenario, but it also unlikely that the Earth will become too hot to live in.

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology says the lava flow is not because of an eruption, but predicts that one could take place in the next few days.

A new research claims that microwaves in the EU emit more co2 than 6.8 million cars and consume more electricity than three large gas power plants.

The milliDelta is a miniaturised version of Delta robots deployed in many industrial processes.

Many common items are unexpected sources of microplastics, which are devastating the world's oceans.

In two weeks' time, a kilometre-wide space rock will skim past the Earth at speeds of around 67,000mph.

Conflicts of interests can be beneficial to primates, as they push them to gather more info about other primates' abilities and their surroundings, making decisions more accurate.

A team of archaeologists unearthed limestone wall segments from the fortress during restoration works on a 15th century townhouse.

While getting stranded in a blizzard is nobody's idea of fun, you can never have too many slow-motion videos of dogs jumping to catch snowballs.

All species showed blue, previously invisible patterns on the head, some even over the whole body, a scientist noted.

Last year, archaeologists discovered a tomb suspected to be the resting place of King Tutankhamun's wife Ankhesenamun.

The star was found being "flung backwards and forwards" at several hundred thousand kilometer per hour speed, every 167 days.

The closely-packed group of galaxies is located some 9.7 billion light years away from Earth.

At 180 kg and four metre in length, the tail reportedly belonged to a 17 metre long, 22 tonne sauropod of the Atlasaurus imelakei species.

A petition to make 1.8 million sq km of Antarctic sea a protected area is gaining steam.

Callum Stewart and his friends were diving off the coast of Martin Island in New South Wales, Australia when he came face to face with the shark.

Every year on the night of 17 January, horses are ridden through huge flames and clouds of smoke on the streets of the village of San Bartolome de los Pinares.

A researcher has debunked the infamous earthquake lore after conducting a detailed analysis of 204 deadly quakes that happened over the past four centuries.

The Two Brothers are the Manchester Museum's oldest mummies and happen to share the same mother, though their fathers were different men.

The over 10,000-year-old underwater cave extends over 347 kms and connects two of Earth's largest flooded tunnel networks.

The National Weather Service in Detroit said the bright flash and accompanying bang were probably made by a passing meteor though many locals thought it was a possible North Korea strike.

The Bornean orangutan, which is one of man's closest living relatives, is under threat from deforestation and poaching.

Microscopic materials created on atomic scale being used in increasing number of manufacturing processes.

A group of golfers came across an alligator fighting off a Burmese Python on a popular golf course in Florida. The incident lasted for 4 hours and led the way to some photo ops.