NASA’s Peggy Whitson arrives at ISS, becomes oldest female astronaut

On Saturday, the Soyuz capsule carrying the astronauts Oleg Novitskiy, Thomas Pesquet, and Peggy Whitson arrived and docked at the International Space Station. With...

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy will carry Musk’s Tesla as its first payload

Elon Musk tweeted over the weekend that the first payload of the Falcon Heavy rocket on its maiden flight would be his own personal...
Ernest Moniz, US Energy Secretary

New Energy guidelines: Politicians can’t pressure scientists

A new set of scientific integrity guidelines, announced today, wants to give researchers more leeway in their communications with the media as a way...
Scientists Find Ocean-Bottom Fish That Gets Ultra-Black as a Defensive Mechanism

Scientists Find Ocean-Bottom Fish That Gets Ultra-Black as a Defensive Mechanism

Scientists have discovered a new species of fish that turns ultra-black as a defensive mechanism against predators. The rare fish lives in the dark depths...

Around 1,000 red crabs wash-up on Huntington Beach

The Huntington Beach area was seen amass with red crabs strewn across the water line, some dead, the others inching around to survive on...

Oculus Mission: ISS and Virtual Reality projects for 2017

Oculus worked along with three space agencies to create Mission: ISS. Mission: ISS allows the users of Oculus Rift to explore the International Space...

Lockheed Martin will turn Space Shuttle capsule into Mars habitat

Last week, Lockheed Martin announced that it would start Phase II of its Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP) contract with NASA. This...

Tiangong-1 will hit Earth soon: here’s what you need to know

Chinese Space Station Tiangong-1 is reported to be falling back on Earth. This has raised concerns about the 8-ton space station’s landing site since...

Scientists declare war on microplastics, call for glitter ban

Environmental scientists are calling for stricter regulations on microplastics across different industries, just as the height of the holiday season approaches and more people...

How Giraffe has such long neck; mystery decoded

Have you ever thought why Giraffe has such long neck? How can blood pump 2m up from the chest to brain in tall mammals? Well,...