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  Chinese spaceship successfully lands on Moon to collect samples

  Agence France-Presse . Beijing | Updated at 11:21am on December 02, 2020

  China has successfully landed a probe on the Moon in an ambitious attempt to bring back the first lunar samples in four decades...

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  Australia maps invasive grass from space

  United News of Bangladesh / Xinhua . Canberra | Updated at 04:39pm on November 21, 2020

  Researchers from Australia’s national science agency have used satellites to map the spread of an invasive species of grass. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research...

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  Global warming to continue no matter what we do: study

  Agence France-Presse . Paris | Updated at 11:08pm on November 13, 2020

  Even if humanity stopped emitting greenhouse gases tomorrow, Earth will warm for centuries to come and oceans will rise by metres, according to a controversial modelling study published...

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  Moon richer in water than once thought

  Agence France-Presse . Paris | Updated at 12:57am on October 27, 2020

  There may be far more water on the Moon than previously thought, according to two studies published Monday raising the tantalising prospect that astronauts on future space missions could find...

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  UN chief calls for investment in renewable sources of energy

  United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka | Updated at 01:10pm on September 17, 2020

  United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres has called for massive investment in cheaper and profitable renewable energy, saying that it is not only the ‘right thing to do’ but also the ‘best economic thing to do’...

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  Astronauts land back on pandemic transformed Earth  

  Agence France-Presse . Almaty | Updated at 01:00pm on April 17, 2020

  Two NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut on Friday made a safe return from the International Space Station to find the planet transformed by the...

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  Six major scientific discoveries of last decade

  Agence France-Presse. Washington | Updated at 04:17pm on December 17, 2019

  From finding the building blocks for life on Mars to breakthroughs in gene editing and the rise of artificial intelligence, here are six major scientific...

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  Former NZ rugby players asked to donate brains

  Reuters. Wellington | Updated at 01:31pm on December 06, 2019

  Former rugby players in New Zealand are being asked to donate their brains to research when they die as part of a study aimed at...