Rogue planets are planets that might be lurking in the vast dark between stars. With recent discoveries we’re getting closer to definitively saying that they do exist.
A team from NASA and NOAA found that the Earth’s “energy imbalance” doubled between 2005 and 2019. The Earth is absorbing more energy than it was emitting.
The Winchcombe meteorite is an extremely rare type called a carbonaceous chondrite and is thought to date back to the beginning of the solar system. It is rich in water and organic matter.
Recently scientists have determined that no known process can be pumping out the amount of methane observed spewing from Saturn's moon Enceladus. That means it could be biological in origin.
With this, Antarctica has now become one of the fastest-warming regions in the world - registering a rise of almost three degrees Celsius in the last 50 years.
There may have been as many as 100 sinkholes in and around the two communities. Some of the holes appeared in remote areas, while many others appeared within yards from people's homes or beneath homes.
Billionaire Sir Richard Branson has successfully reached the edge of space on board his Virgin Galactic rocket plane. The flight was high above New Mexico in the US in the vehicle that his company has been developing for 17 years.
U.S Space Perspective is selling tickets for flights that provide an astronaut's-eye view of Earth. The price for a six-hour trip up into the stratosphere and back is $125,000. Flights are scheduled to begin as soon as late 2024.
China has launched three astronauts into orbit to begin occupation of the country's new space station - Tianhe. This 16.6m-long, 4.2m-wide Tianhe cylinder was launched in April.
The bones of an early human, unknown to science, who lived in the Levant at least until 130,000 years ago, were discovered in Israel. The researchers think that fossils represent a new population, now identified for the first time.
A new study of ancient geological events suggests that our planet has a slow, steady 'heartbeat' of geological activity every 27 million years or so. But we dont' know what causes it.
As many as 15 million people and 1,829 square km land in seven Asian cities could be affected by extreme sea-level rise and coastal flooding by 2030, a recent report by Greenpeace East Asia flagged.
Scientists were alarmed at the amount of dissolved mercury they found in rivers and fjords. The heavy metal raises concerns for the health of indigenous communities. And with global warming, the problem may get worse.
Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein is estimated to be about 1000 times more massive than a typical comet, making it arguably the largest comet discovered in modern times.
A report from the US task force dedicated to investigating UFOs - or, in the official jargon, UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) - has neither confirmed nor rejected the idea such sightings could indicate alien visits to Earth.
