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WASHINGTON: A 2,000-foot asteroid is expected to fly within 300,000 miles of Earth Saturday. That's pretty close. Did you know...

Archaeologists discovered 22 ancient shipwrecks near Greek island

BRENT: Shipwrecks were the stuff of lore around the craggy coasts of Fourni, a Greek archipelago close to Turkey in...

China will begin work on world’s largest super-collider in 2020

BEIJING: China will begin work on the world’s largest super-collider in 2020, state-run media reported Thursday, in an attempt to...

European turtle, doves and Puffins at risk of global extinction

EUROPE: Atlantic puffins, Slavonian grebes, pochards and European turtle doves join the “Red List” of the worldwide Union for Conservation...

Group of 6 Russian women starts moon mission test

MOSCOW: A group of Russian women embarked on an all-female mock moon mission on Wednesday, and officials say the experiment...

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly set to break US spaceflight record

CANADA: NASA astronaut Scott Kelly will set a new record for the longest single stretch of time spent in space...

Tractor beam that uses high-amplitude sound waves to levitate, move developed

LONDON: The tractor beam, a staple of science fiction including "Star Wars" and "Star Trek" that is employed to grab...

Researchers spotted juvenile stars hidden in forest of thick dust clouds in Milky Way’s center

CANADA: Using European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope, researchers spotted juvenile stars hidden in the forest of thick dust clouds in...

Ozone hole gets wider

GENEVA: The UN’s weather and climate agency said on Thursday there was no cause for alarm about a record-size hole...

Student discovers ancestor of modern long-horned grasshopper fossil in China

BEIJING: A student has discovered a 120 million-year-old fossil that belonged to an ancestor of the modern long-horned grasshopper, the...

Warming climate may wipe out habitat for Hawaii’s rarest birds, rsearchers

MIAMI: By the end of this century, a warming climate may wipe out available habitat for some of Hawaii’s rarest...

Comet Lovejoy releases large amounts of alcohol that can fill 500 wine bottles every second

WASHINGTON: Hic! Comet Lovejoy is living up to its name by releasing large amounts of alcohol - as much as...

Global temperature to increase by 3° Celsius: Study

LONDON: If the countries stick to the climate efforts that they have now committed, these could lead to long term...

International Space Station may need some tidying up

MEXICO: The next time NASA picks an astronaut to live in the International Space Station, it might want to send...

50% of African lions will vanish in next 20 years, study

MALI: The lion, perhaps the most iconic species of African wildlife, is disappearing from large parts of the African continent...

New technology allow robots walk like humans

WASHINGTON: Scientists have developed new technology that will enable legged robots to walk like humans do, an advance that could allow...

Mysterious space debris will return to Earth, scientists

CANADA: Human exploration of space has resulted in plenty of debris floating around up there, but most of it is...

EPIC camera captures 3 developing tropical low pressure areas in Indian Ocean

LONDON: NASA's EPIC Camera has captured three developing tropical low pressure areas in the Indian Ocean in one image from...

Global warming may cause of uninhabitable 3 cities of Persian Gulf

CAPE TOWN : Three cities in the Persian Gulf region may become uninhabitable the end of the century due to...

Giant asteroid named Spooky will clobbering our planet