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Space mission shows Earth's water may be from aste...
Water may have been brought to Earth by asteroids from the outer edges of the solar system, scientists said after analysing rare s...
Tibetan Plateau water stores under threat: study
The Tibetan Plateau will experience significant water loss this century due to global warming, according to research published Mon...
Mechanical elephants, homemade howitzers as India...
India marked the 75th anniversary of independence on Monday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi giving a speech from Delhi's histori...
US astronaut Jessica Watkins sets sights on Moon.....
If you had the choice, would you rather go to the Moon or Mars?
What's in Biden's big climate and health bill?
Hundreds of billions of dollars for clean energy projects, cheaper prescription drugs and new corporate taxes are a few of the key...
Iran seeks 3 more Khayyam satellites
Iran plans to commission three more versions of a satellite launched this week by Russia, Tehran's government spokesman said Frida...
'We can live together': church helps bridge Bosnia...
Decades after bloody fighting between Catholics and Muslims ripped apart Bosnia's Bugojno, a new church has provided a rare opport...
Swiss mountain pass set to lose all ice within wee...
The thick layer of ice that has covered a Swiss mountain pass for centuries will have melted away completely within a few weeks, a...
Ice-age footprints shed light on North America's e...
Footprints laid down by Ice-Age hunter-gatherers and recently discovered in a US desert are shedding new light on North America's...
Even modest climate change imperils northern fores...
Even relatively moderate heating and rainfall loss could dramatically alter the make-up of Earth's northern forests, risking their...
What we know of the symptoms and spread of monkeyp...
With monkeypox surging across the world, experts are gathering more evidence on how people catch it and its typical symptoms.
In Norway, old oil platforms get a second life
At an industrial yard in southwestern Norway, decommissioned oil platforms are slowly being dismantled for a second life in the ci...
Drought forces water use rethink in Spain
Faced with a historic drought and threatened by desertification, Spain is rethinking how it spends its water resources, which are...
US Senate adopts sweeping climate and health plan,...
After 18 months of arduous negotiations and a marathon night of debate, the US Senate on Sunday passed Joe Biden’s ambitious clima...
US Senate poised to pass Biden's cornerstone clima...
After months of negotiations, the US Senate looks poised to pass Joe Biden's grand climate and health care plan, channeling billio...
Runners take on Swiss glacier race despite melt
Hundreds of runners braved a lung-busting ascent into the Alps in Switzerland's Glacier 3000 Run on Saturday, albeit on a shortene...
Nuclear weapons a 'loaded gun', UN chief warns in...
"Humanity is playing with a loaded gun" as crises with the potential for nuclear disaster proliferate worldwide, UN head Antonio G...
Blue Origin sends first Egyptian and Portuguese na...
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin on Thursday launched six people to space, including the first from Egypt and Portugal, on the company's si...
South Korea's first lunar orbiter launched by Spac...
South Korea's first lunar orbiter successfully launched on a year-long mission to observe the Moon, Seoul said Friday, with the pa...
South Korea launches first lunar orbiter
South Korea's first-ever lunar orbiter was launched from the US Thursday on a year-long mission to observe the Moon, live video sh...
Long Covid symptoms affects one in eight, study su...
One in eight people who get coronavirus develop at least one symptom of long Covid, one of the most comprehensive studies on the c...
Half of species not assessed for endangered list r...
More than half of species whose endangered status cannot be assessed due to a lack of data are predicted to face the risk of extin...
Firefighters battle blaze in northwestern Spain
Firefighters backed by more than 20 aircraft battled a wildfire in northwestern Spain which appears to have been started deliberat...
Blue Origin sends first Egyptian and Portugese nat...
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin on Thursday launched six people to space, including the first from Egypt and Portugal, on the company's si...
SpaceX debris discovered in Australian sheep paddo...
A charred chunk of space junk found jutting from a paddock by an Australian sheep farmer was confirmed to be part of one of Elon M...
Great Barrier Reef sees fragile coral comeback
Parts of Australia's beleaguered Great Barrier Reef now have the highest levels of coral cover seen in decades, a government repor...
Climate, poverty collude to torment Central Americ...
Every time it rains, Blanca Arias in El Salvador and Sandra Ramos in Honduras fear that flooding will raze their precarious homes...
Dutch farmer protests reap populist support
Dutch farmers' rowdy protests against government climate plans have caused a stir at home and abroad, with populists worldwide jum...
Sinkhole larger than tennis court has Chile perple...
Experts in Chile on Tuesday were investigating the appearance of an enormous sinkhole, bigger than a tennis court, that has appear...
Webb telescope captures colourful Cartwheel Galaxy
The James Webb Space Telescope has peered through time and huge amounts of dust to capture a new image of the Cartwheel Galaxy, re...
Chinese booster rocket makes uncontrolled return t...
A Chinese booster rocket made an uncontrolled return to Earth on Saturday, leading US officials to chide Beijing for not sharing i...
Chinese booster rocket makes uncontrolled return t...
A Chinese booster rocket made an uncontrolled return to Earth on Saturday, US Defense Department officials said, as they chided Be...