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Elon Musk said he would use SpaceX Starlink to bring internet to the small island nation of Tonga, but rescinded the offer saying 'This s a hard thing for us to do right now,' due to a lack of satellites.

The San Diego Zoo was forced to euthanize a giraffe calf two days after it was born. The baby, named Masai, was not standing or feed and was sent for medical help - but he did not improve.

The sphinxes are of King Amenhotep III, who ruled ancient Egypt about 3,300 years ago and was the grandfather of the famous King Tutankhamun. The sphinxes were found in Luxor.

The record-breaking long-lived bubble was designed and produced by a team of physicists from the University of Lille, in France.

The solar flare erupted at 1:01am ET on Friday. NASA shared footage of the powerful event, which has been classified as a M5.5-level flare - or moderately strong.

Palaeontologists took a closer look at the brain case of Ankylosaur dinosaurs found in Austria, to better understand the life and behaviour of these 'living fortresses'.

Yakei, a female Japanese macaque, and the leader of a troop of 677 monkeys at a reserve in Oita, Japan, could lose her top spot during the current mating season, experts say.

NASA shared the remarkable pictures taken out of the ISS Cupola windows, showing a blanket of ash from plumes spewing thousands of feet into the atmosphere.

Found on Japan's Sado Island, Ramisyllis kingghidorahi was described by an international team of researchers led from the University of Göttingen.

When deployed, the robot will join soldiers from the Chinese army on logistics and reconnaissance missions across complex environments including snowfields, deserts and mountains.

Consumer group Which? said its findings suggest possible discrimination and a potential breach of UK law by the popular dating app.

Researchers from Stanford Medicine looked into how male and female mouse brains differ by probing areas that are known to program 'rating, dating, mating and hating' behaviours.

Researchers placed volunteers in 17th Door Haunted House, an extreme attraction in Fullerton, California, and measured their fear responses.

Radian Aerospace, based in Bellevue, Washington, claims its spaceplane will completely transform travel - both in space and around the world.

According to Down Detector, a website that monitors such issues, there were more than 8,000 reports of problems across the UK and Europe.

Shep-en-Isis was found in 1819 at Deir el-Bahari, a complex of temples and tombs on the west bank of the Nile River in Egypt, before being transported to Switzerland.

The same molecules that produce UV patterns in sunflowers also help the plant respond to stresses such as drought or extreme temperatures, experts from the University of British Columbia found.

The near-miss occurred on Tuesday (January 18), Beijing's China National Space Administration (CNSA) has said, based on tracking data of Tsinghua and the debris.

Amazon has continued to drop incredible deals in their New Year sale, and if you're looking to upgrade your smart home, we've found Amazon device deals you won't want to miss.

Jim Parsons, 57, of Huntsville, Alabama, was brain dead - and therefore declared officially deceased - in September, but scientists performed the transplant on him with his family's blessing.

The Doomsday clock remains at 100 seconds to midnight for the third year in a row. The decision was based on nuclear war risks, climate change, the spread of misinformation and conflict in space.

Neuralink posted a job listing for a clinical trial director who will 'work with Neuralink's first Clinical Trial participants.' This suggests the company will soon implant its brain chips in humans.

Instagram is testing subscriptions with 10 creators in the US, who can set their own monthly fee that users pay to access exclusive Live videos and Instagram Stories.

The video selfie is taken on a mobile device and then uploaded to ID.me, along with the person's government ID. The site uses its facial recognition software to verify the individual.

Space Entertainment Enterprise (SEE) , based in London, has revealed plans for a film, TV, sport and entertainment broadcast module for the ISS, to launch in 2024.

Sharing food and kissing are among signals babies and infants use to interpret whether people are emotionally close, reveal experts at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Hundreds of ancient burial mounds can be found dotted across the Japanese Islands, the largest of which are known as Kofun, and shaped like a keyhole.

Black-browed albatross populations living on New Island, in the Falklands, were studied using accelerometers, depth sensors and GPS by researchers led from the University of Oxford.

The $10 billion Webb telescope has been in space for nearly a month, and is close to being at the end of its deployment - something that happened faster than expected.

No anatomical feature like an oral plug has even been seen before in any other animal, reported the research team from the University of British Columbia.

Among people aged 65+, sharing a joke with friends reduces the risk of disability by around 30 per cent compared with those who laugh alone, reveal researchers at Nagoya University in Japan.

The I-124 had been on a secret mission laying mines off the coast of Darwin when it suffered irreparable damage from dozens of depth chargers detonated by the HMAS Deloraine.

A bug has been uncovered in Apple's Safari 15, the firm's latest search engine. The flaw exposes users' internet activity and personal data to other websites. Apple is said to release a fix soon.

SpaceX has been launching an increasing number of internet satellites since 2018, with over 2,000 now in low Earth orbit, about 340 miles above the planet.

New evidence from the Hubble telescope shows a black hole at the heart of dwarf galaxy Henize 2-10 that's creating stars, not gobbling them up, report experts from Montana State University.

The limb muscles of Thecodontosaurus, a small dinosaur that lived in the UK in the Triassic, was reconstructed by a team of researchers from the University of Bristol.

Humanity will learn its fate tomorrow during a live event that will unveil Doomsday clock for the 75th time. The clock's hand has remained at 100 seconds to midnight for the past two year.

The Rwanda genocide may be over, but the terror lives on in the DNA of victims and their offspring. A study found chemical modifications in genes linked to mental disorders like PTSD.

People who watch TV for four hours or more a day are a third more likely to suffer from blood clots than those who watch for two-and-a-half hours, University of Bristol researchers have found.

The massive slab of ice released the fresh water when it scraped past the island of South Georgia last year, according to researchers from the University of Leeds.

Ocean researchers searching for the sunken WWII USS Johnston came across the world's deepest-dwelling squid - a juvenile bigfin squid at more than 20,000ft below the surface.

The Prichal module was launched and attached to the space station in November last year, but needed extra work to make it ready for use.

Tesla Model Y and Model 3 vehicles in Alaska and western Canada are not heating in the cabin. One owner called out Elon Musk saying his family could have been killed in the -40F temperatures.

Popular tropes, of wealth making people less likely to help someone, are  accurate, say the team behind the study, from the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway.

'His character in the film is a spider killer, which is exactly what these nematodes are,' said University of California, Riverside parasitologist Adler Dillman.

The patents describes a device that sits around user's waist to track their body poses, sensor-packed gloves to monitor hand gestures and glasses to immerse players in the digital world.

A new computational approach was developed by experts from the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste to estimate how many stellar-mass black holes should have formed.

The clip was captured by Gianluca Masi, an astrophysicist and manager of the Virtual Telescope Project, provided by the Bellatrix Astronomical Observatory in Italy.

Andrew McCarthy, from Arizona, US, takes some of the most striking and detailed images of astronomical objects, and shares them online as @Cosmic_Background.

The impact of pollutants found in diesel fumes and ozone on the pollination of black mustard plants was assessed by a team of researchers from the University of Reading.

Elon Musk's firm launched another 49 Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center, Florida at 21:02 ET on Tuesday - taking the total to over 2,000.

A bacterium found in the guts of giant pandas called clostridium butyricum can increase the production and storage of fats during a certain time of the year, say experts in Beijing.

This is the latest campaign by the US space agency, operating in partnership with leading crowd-sourcing platform HeroX, based in Houston, Texas.

Nations globally should agree to a UN treaty so they're committed to legally binding targets to combat plastic pollution, a report by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency said.

The eight tubes - which date back more than 5,000 years - were first unearthed from Maikop kurgan, a Bronze Age burial mound in Southern Russia, back in 1897.

Foodtech startup Platish introduced its plant-based salmon filet on Thursday that is made through 3D printing. It has Omega-3s and protein, but eliminates the mercury, hormones and microplastics.

Exxon pledges to hit next-zero emissions by 2050, but the target only includes 15% of its total emissions. It released about 762 million tons in 2020 and the 2050 pledge only cuts 112 million tons.

NASA hasn't sent a vehicle to explore the surface of the moon since the last Apollo landing in 1972 - 50 years ago this year. Two contractors have competing rover designs for a landing this year.

Artistic renderings have been created by Devanga Borah, a mechanical engineer at Tezpur University in India, of an autonomous and fully electric vehicle.

The game isn't being added to the App Store, but rather being made available by streaming service NVIDIA GeForce NOW, running in mobile browser Safari.

The robot, called iCub, has been developed by experts at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa, Italy.

The Aktiia home blood pressure monitoring kit comes with a cuff, bracelet and partner app, that can constantly track blood pressure without a bulky device.

Ocean temperatures are the warmest they have been in a decade due to climate change, which is allowing tiger sharks to thrive in waters along the US northeastern coast, a study finds.

In laboratory tests on 10 mice the approach was found to eliminate the virus in 40 per cent of cases, the team from the University of California Los Angeles said.

ESA is on the lookout for a new cohort of six space travellers who will spend time on the International Space Station and may one day land on the surface of the moon.

Curiosity landed on Mars on August 6, 2012 - and since has been roaming around Gale Crater collecting and analysing rock samples, relaying the data back to Earth.

Part of the ExoMars mission, the rover is a joint project of the European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia's Roscosmos, and was assembled in Stevenage, England.

The space rock, called 7482 (1994 PC1), poses no threat to the Earth as it will be five times farther away from the planet than the moon, as it shoots by at 43,000 mph at 21:51 GMT tonight.

A new study says the Red List has underestimated the number of species that have gone extinct. Including all species suggests that a sixth mass extinction is already happening on Earth.

A marine biologist had a 'once in a lifetime encounter' when she captured pictures and footage of a rare blanket octopus swimming through the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.

Isolated populations of double-collared sunbirds living up high mountains in East Africa were studied by researchers led from the University of California, Berkeley.

Researchers are using the Murchison Widefield Array near Perth to hunt for the signal of the hydrogen that pervaded the early universe before the so-called 'cosmic dawn'.

The thermal properties of bridgmanite, the primary mineral that makes up the boundary between Earth's mantle and outer core, were studied by researchers from ETH Zürich.

The wolf moon will rise at 4:31pm EST and peak at 6:48pm EST - and it will be appear full until Wednesday. According to NASA, there will be 12 full moons this year with the next in February.

Hearing unfamiliar voices when asleep causes the human brain to tune in during non-rapid eye movement sleep (NREM), the first stage of sleep, researchers in Salzburg report.

The fossilized flower bud, found in China, was found at a deposit dated more than 164 million years ago and could be the transitional stage that finally answer's Darwin's abominable mystery

Ancient tombs span large distances in the northwestern Saudi Arabian counties of Al-'Ula and Khaybar, aerial surveys carried out by the University of Western Australia reveal.

The 2,000 year old skull of a Peruvian warrior was found to have been fused together with metal in one of the world's oldest examples of advanced surgery, according to a museum.

This is the warning of University of Hawaiʻi experts who investigated how telescopes nearly missed a 328-feet-wide asteroid that came within 43,500 miles of Earth back in 2019.

Sensors will detect any faults or issues on train tracks and beam data back to a 3D digital replica, or metaverse, at a nearby control centre in Washwood Heath, Birmingham.

Magnetic field evidence on the moon has baffled planetary scientists for decades, but a new study, by experts from Brown University Providence, Rhode Island may have the answer.

Doctors believe anemia sets in because of the fluid shifts within astronauts' bodies that accommodate weightlessness and then again as they re-accommodated to gravity.

The $20 billion Space Launch System (SLS) has been in development since 2011, and has been hit by multiple delays and problems over the past decade.

The full-scale electric ZEVA Aero, created by Tacoma, Washington-based firm ZEVA, performed a series of unmanned flight tests in rural Pierce County on January 9.

The space rock, called 7482 (1994 PC1), poses no threat to the Earth as it will be five times further away from the planet than the moon, as it shoots by at 43,000 mph.

Leeches - once widespread across the country - are in as few as 25 ponds in Kent, Hampshire and Cumbria. It is the only British leech that can suck blood from humans.

The exoplanet, known as WASP-103b, is the first the planet found not to be shaped like a sphere. It's rugby ball-shape is due to a strong tidal forces between the planet and its host star.

A team of scientists found words like 'determine' and 'conclusion' that were popular from 1850 through 1980 have been since been replaced with human experience such as 'feel' and 'believe.'

US law mandates helicopters have working radar altimeters in order to fly, but 5G is known to render the devices unreliable. This means many medevac choppers could be grounded.

People of ancient Mesopotamia created a hybrid animal by crossing domestic donkeys with wild asses, scientists in Paris report.These animals, kungas,could haul a chariot into battle.

An international team of scientists, led by the University of Cambridge, created a series of computer and mathematical models to study the early moon.

The animation was created by an ecologist at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany.

Bald eagles are feasting on dead deer that is contaminated with gunshot ammunition and are dying of lead poisoning. This is resulting in a drop in population growth of up to six percent.

Amazon is having a sale on some of its bestselling devices. Right now, you can shop the bestselling Kindle for the lowest price ever at just £44.99 and shop 40 per cent off the Echo Dot 4th generation.

Directors at The Chinese Buffet unveiled one BellaBot in each of four restaurants in Liverpool, St Helens, Bolton and Wigan, to serve food to diners in place of humans.

Hominis features a pair of 'pinching claws' attached to two humanoid-shaped arms. This robotic assistant is helping US surgeons perform transvaginal hysterectomies.

Adults and children in London who have lung problems should reduce strenuous physical exertion today, according to the government's UK-AIR monitoring website.

The ancient leather armour with fish-like scales was discovered in the tomb of a horse rider at the Yanghai graveyard site near Turfan in China.

Richard Branson 's space firm put the small satellites into a 310 mile orbit, launching from the Mojave Air and Space Port in California at 16:39 ET (21:39 GMT) on Thursday.

Also known as notothenioids, the icefish play an important role in the wider food web, say experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany.