A magnitude-6.2 earthquake hit off the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean northeast of Australia on Thursday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
NASA's Hubble Telescope has discovered a new fourth moon orbiting the ice-world planet Pluto.
An independent review of the BBC's science coverage has indicated that the news agency gives far too much credence to fringe views that border on opinion rather than fact.
While the full moon has for long been a case of bloody tales and stories, forget about vampires or zombie attacks as a study recently published shows that predators, such as lions and maybe even wolves, are at their most dangerous when the moon starts to fade.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.9 struck in the middle of the English Channel yesterday, the British Geological Survey said.
Statue of first man in Space unveiled in London
A team of scientists from Yale University have discovered "the youngest dinosaur" fossil ever, lending credence to the theory that the dinosaurs were wiped out when a meteor hit Earth.
Astronauts continued organizing the unloading of a year's worth of supplies at the International Space Station after NASA said on Monday that a piece of Soviet space debris was unlikely to collide with orbiting lab.
Neptune is about to celebrate its first birthday as on 12 July it will be exactly one Neptunian year - or 164.79 Earth years.Despite being discovered on 24 September 1846, little is known about the distant planet that lies approximately 4.4 billion kilometres away from Earth.
NASA fuelled space shuttle Atlantis for lift-off Friday on the final flight of the 30-year program, defying the stormy weather that threatened to delay the launch, after forecasters insist there still is a 70 per cent chance of thunderstorm and rain.But despite the gloomy forecast and an eve of launch which saw torrential rain and lightning, technicians are still proceeding as if it will take off on time.
Atlantis has blasted off from the Kennedy Space Centre on the last ever space shuttle mission and despite gloomy weather conditions, the launched took place on time.
David Attenborough is set to unveil the skull of the pliosaur, commonly called the deadliest sea monster ever.
She's been in space 32 times since 1985, and orbited the earth 4,648 times, but today will be the last launch of the Atlantis Shuttle, and of NASA's 30-year space shuttle program.
Thunderstorms threatened to delay the last space shuttle launch, set for today, and a lightning strike near the pad briefly caused NASA engineers to question whether the launch should take place at all.
China's soaring coal consumption in the last decade held back global warming as sulfur emissions served as a coolant, according to a study led by Boston University.
A new study into climate change has revealed that Brits may soon be forced to contend with much harsher winters, with as many as one in seven casting the country into sub-zero temperatures for pro-longed periods.
For the first time since April, radioactive cesium-137 was found in Tokyo's tap water as Japan grapples with the worst nuclear disaster in 25 years.
The remarkable weather extremes of the past decade, including this year's Queensland and Victorian floods, were not caused by global warming, according to one of Australia's most eminent climate scientists.
A tiny insect that plays love songs with its penis is the loudest animal on Earth.
Experts at Southampton University have drawn up a league table of countries most likely to suffer severe loss of life or catastrophic damage, should a large asteroid hit Earth.
Since Armed Forces Minister Nick Harvey yesterday revealed the U.K. Government's sponsored development of cyber weapons, a report from the Washington post has revealed that the U.S.A. also has a similar sponsorship programme currently under way.
In an interview with the Guardian, Armed Forces Minister Nick Harvey has revealed the existence of a government funded cyber-weapon development project.
Following the previous report about easyJet's new AVOID system -- a newly developed ash cloud detection and mapping radar -- the IBTimes attempted to contact the company to see whether the new technology would be used to help manage the forthcoming ash cloud's impact on the global travel industry.
With memory of the widespread disruption last years ash cloud debacle caused British travellers still fresh and another similar cloud reported as on its way, budget airline easyJet's decision to invest in new ash cloud detection technology may well be proven right in the coming days.
Budget airline easyJet has called on the aviation industry to collaborate on developing AVOID technology, that would allow aircraft to continue flying even in the event of another volcanic ash cloud, like that emitted by an Icelandic volcano a year ago.
