The first interstellar object ever seen in our solar system, named ‘Oumuamua, is giving scientists a fresh perspective on how planets, asteroids and comets form.
Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay have agreed to share the responsibility of preserving 42 million acres of wildlife habitat and biodiversity for years to come.
The European Space Agency picked the Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey (ARIEL) mission to explore the nature of exoplanets.
Local residents, infrastructure, and oil and gas pipelines could be at risk from the ground heaving and sinking in West Texas, US, after years of fossil fuel production, according to a new study.
The European Chemicals Agency has announced that the chemicals Octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane (D4) and decamethylcyclopentasiloxane (D5) will be prohibited in cosmetics, effective in January 2020.
Following three years of extensive research, physicists have created technology that will enable our computers to run 100 times faster through terahertz microchips.
Engineers have built a bright - light emitting device that is fully transparent when turned off. The light emitting material in this device is a monolayer semiconductor, which is just three atoms thick.
The lifelike movements of the robot mean it can navigate aquatic environments without triggering any discernible alarm among marine life.
A series of reports compiled by nearly 600 scientists meeting in Columbia paint a grim picture of the world at the end of the century, with human activities driving the sixth mass extinction in Earth’s history.
China plans to create new classes of heavy rockets in future, these include the Long March 9 rocket, a three-stage, super-heavy rocket that would allow for crewed missions to the Moon.
A tear opens up in Kenya's Rift Valley. Geologists say it will - in a few million years - lead to the continent splitting in two.
Brisa de Angulo: At age 17, I started the only program in the entire country of Bolivia for children who have been sexually abused.
A new biochemical leaching process to recover valuable rare earth metals from discarded electronics has been developed the US researchers. And the key ingredient is somewhat unusual: corn.
Loggers are illegally felling rare and valuable trees to sell in China and Europe, making Cambodia's deforestation rate among the world's worst.
Boracay Island in the central Philippines attracts more than a million tourists, but the massive tourism on the island has caused serious environmental damage to this beautiful island.
