Science

Rosetta has finally ended its dance around Comet 67P. After more than ten years spent on its mission. The spacecraft had been chasing the comet and travelled 6 billion kilometers. In 2014, it approached the space body and sent down a probe “Philae” to successfully land on the comet for the first time in human history. Unfortunately, scientists lost connection …

The events leading up to the discovery of Sir John Franklin’s second ship in Nunavut waters are being investigated by the territorial and federal governments to determine if the search was conducted legally. The Arctic Research Foundation (ARF) found the wreck of Terror in early September, when its ship was searching the Arctic in partnership with government crews led by …

Scientists are gonna need a bigger boat as they track a nearly 750-kilogram great white shark off the U.S. east coast. Miss Costa, a juvenile great white shark and the newest member of the Ocearch.org research team, is lurking just off the coast east-southeast of the Virginia-North Carolina state line.

Blue Origin’s latest unmanned space-rocket launch in west Texas Wednesday morning simulated a failure and proved an even bigger success than expected. Not long after the startup’s New Shephard rocket lifted off, the company carried out a planned emergency separation of its crew capsule. Boosted on a plume of fire produced by a solid rocket motor, the capsule successfully launched …

Hurricane Matthew is expected to be a monster one and apparently that also holds true when looking at infrared images of it. Stu Ostro, senior director of Weather Communications at The Weather Channel, posted the satellite image to Twitter Tuesday as the hurricane touched down in Haiti.

A full-size model of the ExoMars entry, descent and landing module, Schiaparelli, with its parachute deployed was revealed on ESA’s open day last Sunday in the Netherlands. Schiaparelli was launched back in March, along with an orbiter that will sample the Martian atmosphere for trace gases. When the module reaches Mars’s surface in just over two weeks, it will spend …

UN approves a total ban on trade in pangolin. The move can contribute in the rocovery of gentle and shy mammal. A total trade ban on all pangolin species has been put in place at the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) summit in South Africa in an attempt to secure the future of these scaly anteaters. …

Scientists have discovered a rare new species of extinct shark that roamed the oceans 20 million years ago. Dubbed Megalolamna paradoxodon, the predator was identified by its widely dispersed tooth fossils, which have been recovered from beds as far apart as California, North Carolina, Peru, and Japan. The new species, which was identified in research published this week in the …

The Pacific Whale Watch Association today released the latest series of photos taken of some of the newest additions to the Southern Resident Community of orcas. Following the death of several whales in 2014 there was a substantial concern for extinction. In fact, the species were previously petitioned to be listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.

Our planet has hit a scary threshold. We are now permanently over 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Although the planet has gone over this number before, this is the first time we have not dropped below that number in a year, and most scientists think we won’t see a number below it again. September is …

QUANTUM COMPUTING just got even more bonkers with the latest announcement from D-Wave. The company’s “most advanced” quantum computer features the first 2,000-qubit processor, doubling the capacity of the previous D-Wave 2X model currently deployed in a joint venture between Google and NASA. D-Wave modestly admitted that this gives the firm a serious march on others in the field.