Seven earth-sized rocky planets in one fell swoop and all of them are potentially habitable you say? Not so fast. Harvard researchers have taken this a step further, looking at the newly discovered Trappist-1 solar system, which could have seven Earth-like planets. The planets orbit a star similar to our Sun at just the right distance for it not to …

Top California judge tells ICE to stop immigration arrests inside court houses Justice Cantil-Sakauye made this request in an open letter released on Thursday.

The U.S. military says an air strike Thursday in northwestern Syria targeted a large gathering of al-Qaeda members meeting in a building across the street from a mosque, but deny that a nearby mosque was hit by the airstrike. “We did not target any mosques. What we did target was destroyed. There is a mosque within 50 feet of that …

Sara Manitoski, a Grade 11 student in the integrated studies outdoor education program, died in her sleep Tuesday night, during a scheduled midweek overnight excursion to Tribune Bay Outdoor Education Centre on Hornby Island. The girl, a student at G.P. Vanier Secondary in Courtenay, was part of an overnight trip to the Tribune Bay Outdoor Education Centre, said Paul Berry, …

Halton Regional Police say two people were shot inside a chiropractic clinic in Burlington on Thursday afternoon. The gunfire erupted at 12:05 Thursday afternoon inside the Mejilla Family Chiropractic clinic at Plains Road and Shadeland Avenue in Aldershot.

Astronomers have discovered a white dwarf star — a faint, dense star that has burned through most of its hydrogen and helium — circling just 600,000 miles or so from a suspected black hole, in what astronomers are describing as the closest such orbit ever known. The binary system, known as 47 Tucanae X9 and located about 14,800 light years …

A study from NASA has found that jet engines running on biofuels can reduce particle emissions by between 50 and 70 per cent. Its research concluded particle emissions from plane exhausts can be greatly decreased by using a 50:50 blend of aviation fuel and a renewable alternative produced from plant oil. As well as cutting Carbon Dioxide emissions, the mix …

The search continues for white nose syndrome, a fungal disease responsible for the deaths of millions of bats in eastern North America. Nebraska wildlife officials announced that following the recent discovery of several dozen dead bats at a mine in Cass County, the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisconsin confirmed white-nose syndrome in three bats from …

President Donald Trump has a vision for the federal government’s budget in 2018, and — among other nicks and cuts to NASA’s projects — it does not include any money for the agency’s equal-parts-bold-and-weird Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM). Trump’s budget cuts $102 million from the nearly $2 billion NASA spent in 2017 on earth science and global warming research. The …

A new research has identified proteins that tardigrades have evolved to survive extreme dryness. “The big takeaway from our study is that tardigrades have evolved unique genes that allow them to survive drying out,” says Thomas Boothby, the Life Sciences Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the study’s first author. “In addition, the …

The man charged in connection to the death of Amanda Todd has been sentenced in The Netherlands. Aydin Coban has been found guilty, and will serve a sentence of 10 years and 243 days. The cyberbullying of Todd was brought to mainstream attention after she posted a Youtube video depicting her story with handwritten signs.