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Researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Fisheries department, along with the Vancouver Aquarium, used drones to take photographs of killer whales, and the images are incredible. The remote-controlled hexacopter, mounted with a high-resolution camera, flew over the waters of Canada’s western province of British Columbia in August. The whales were identified as Northern Resident killer whales, a …

Space enthusiasts planning a move to Mars may have to wait to relocate: conditions on the Red Planet are such that humans would likely begin dying within 68 days, a new study says.

After spending nearly two years in orbit, the mysterious X-37B space plane finally landed in California at the Vandenberg Air Force Base on Friday morning.

The heavens are hosting an event this weekend that occurs once in a million years or so. A comet as hefty as a small mountain will pass mind-bogglingly close to Mars on Sunday, approaching within 87,000 miles at a speed of 126,000 mph.

Researchers believe that Saturn’s Mimas moon, which brings to mind the famous “Death Star” from “Star Wars,” may have a global ocean lurking deep beneath its surface.

Canada on Friday restricted large-scale fishing in a swath of the Beaufort Sea in the Arctic as part of the country’s effort to protect its marine resources from existing and potential threats.

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories developed the magnetic mirror by placing nanoscale antennas at or very near the mirror’s surface, thereby allowing the researchers to harness IR radiation. At optical frequencies, the magnetic properties required for strong interaction can be achieved only by using artificially tailored materials, the researchers wrote in the study.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has targeted some new objects for the New Horizons spacecraft to investigate after it flies by Pluto in July 2015. NASA scientists have taken a closer look at three Kuiper Belt objects to see whether they’ll make good targets for the Pluto mission.

In the 1930s, the southwestern Great Plains suffered a series of severe droughts. Overfarming and overgrazing had destroyed prairie grasses, making the topsoil even more vulnerable to strong winds. NASA scientists now say that one of those drought years, 1934, was the driest and most widespread in a millennium.

Just in time for the Halloween NASA shared an image of the sun that looks like a jack-o-lantern. NASA, explaining the image, said: “The active regions in this image appear brighter because those are areas that emit more light and energy.

A number of sources are reporting that a rare beaked whale washed up on a beach in Australia on Tuesday, October 14th. The find was a boon for cetacean researchers who know little about a deep sea animal that spends most of its time diving at depths far offshore.