Sci-Fi

The InSight Mars lander accomplished a perfect landing last week on the Elysium Planitia region of the planet, where it is hard at work preparing to drill into the surface (and taking selfies, of course). […]

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Ask a three-year-old why they think it’s raining, and she may say “because the flowers are thirsty”. Her brother might also tell you that trees have leaves to provide shade for people and animals. These […]

The Great Dying was as nasty as it sounds.  Some 250 million years ago, around 95 percent of ocean species vanished during the planet’s largest-known extinction event, also called the Great Permian Extinction.  The culprit […]

Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched to space on Wednesday, but it didn’t quite stick the landing. Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully lifted off from a […]

Scientists have watched Greenland’s colossal ice sheet shrink at an accelerated rate for the last 20 years. Now, researchers have solid proof that the current melting of Earth’s second-largest ice sheet — which is about […]

On Wednesday, we witnessed a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch a Dragon capsule destined for the International Space Station to orbit, but it just missed its land landing after a bad case of the spins.  Now, […]

Credit:AuBC/Channel 7 Today Tonight The latest internet sensation is a cow. Or more accurately a giant steer (a castrated male) by the name of Knickers. The nearly two meter-tall, 1,400kg Holstein Friesian has grown so […]

A photo of a rocket launch from space. Image: Alexander gerst/esa By Miriam Kramer2018-12-04 22:33:26 UTC Not many of us will get a chance to see a rocket launch live from this angle in our […]

An interplanetary visitor has arrived at asteroid Bennu. On Monday, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft reached the relatively small asteroid after an over two-year journey through the solar system. The 1,600-foot diameter space rock, about the height […]