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SpaceX Starship, world's biggest rocket, set for first test flight 17 Apr 2023 - 03:37 pm
A view of the SpaceX Starship as it stands on the launch pad ahead of a flight test from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, early on April 17, 2023. Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP
Albania pushes out boat to save world's rarest seal 12 Apr 2023 - 05:48 pm
Nexhip Hysolokaj, a biodiversity expert, installs a camera trap inside a cave, a habitat used by Mediterranean monk seals (Monachus monachus), at the Karaburun peninsula, some 17.5 nautical miles from the coast of Vlore, southern Albania, on March 24, 2023. Photo by Adnan Beci / AFP
Plastic pollution is scourge of English coastal region 09 Apr 2023 - 03:59 pm
Artist and environmental activist Rob Arnold, works on a sculpture called
Space-based NASA instrument to track pollution over North America 07 Apr 2023 - 12:17 pm
This handout screen grab courtesy of Nasa TV shows NASA痴 Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument launched 12:30 am (0430 GMT) on April 7, 2023 as a payload on Intelsat 40E aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Photo by NASA TV / AFP
May 8 launch for private mission to ISS with Saudi astronauts 06 Apr 2023 - 09:12 pm
The first Saudi woman is to take part in a private mission to the International Space Station scheduled for liftoff on May 8, 2023. (Handout / NASA TV/AFP)
Ice sheets could retreat faster than expected: study 06 Apr 2023 - 04:24 pm
An aerial view of the 200-foot-tall (60-meter-tall) front of the Getz Ice Shelf with cracks, in Antarctica, in this 2016 handout image. NASA/Handout via Reuters
Earth had second-warmest March on record: monitor 06 Apr 2023 - 11:41 am
A soy plant affected by drought and high temperatures is seen in a field in Baradero, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, on March 30, 2023.  (Photo by Luis Robayo / AFP)
First woman, Black astronaut to make 2024 flight around Moon 04 Apr 2023 - 07:29 pm
(L-R) Astronauts Jeremy Hansen, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman and Christina Hammock Koch celebrate after being selected for the Artemis II mission who will venture around the Moon during a news conference held by NASA and CSA at Ellington airport in Houston, Texas, on April 3, 2023. (Photo by Mark Felix / AFP)
Webb telescope discovers oldest galaxies ever observed 04 Apr 2023 - 05:55 pm
File photo: The James Webb Space Telescope has unleashed a torrent of scientific discoveries since becoming operational last year. (NASA TV / AFP)
Arctic scientists race to preserve 'ice memory' 03 Apr 2023 - 04:38 pm
This file photo taken on May 4, 2022 shows a view of mountains near Longyearbyen, located on Spitsbergen island, in Svalbard Archipelago, northern Norway. Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP
The US leads the world in weather catastrophes; Here's why 02 Apr 2023 - 02:45 pm
The damaged remains of the Walnut Ridge neighborhood is seen on March 31, 2023 in Little Rock, Arkansas. Benjamin Krain/Getty Images/AFP
Austria glaciers retreat 'more than ever': measurement 31 Mar 2023 - 07:14 pm
File Photo: Glaciologist Martin Stocker-Waldhuber from the Austrian Academy of Sciences explores a natural glacier cavity of the Jamtalferner glacier near Galtuer, Austria, October 15, 2021. 
Fiona, Ian retired from list of tropical cyclone names 30 Mar 2023 - 01:21 am
File photo showing destruction caused by the passing of Hurricane Fiona in Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada. Reuters/Ted Pritchard
Astronomers discover one of biggest black holes ever recorded 29 Mar 2023 - 04:00 pm
This handout image released on June 10, 2022 by ESA Hubble, shows an artist’s impression of a black hole in the Milky Way galaxy, which distorts light passing near it creating a phenomenon known as “gravitational lensing”. Photo by Handout / ESA/HUBBLE / AFP
Meatball from extinct mammoth unveiled by food tech firm 28 Mar 2023 - 10:25 pm
The glistening meatball was displayed under a glass bell jar at the NEMO science museum in Amsterdam. (Photo by Vow)
Bangladesh bans plastics in world's largest mangrove forest 28 Mar 2023 - 03:14 pm
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North Sea shell survey brings out volunteers 26 Mar 2023 - 11:18 am
A photograph taken on March 25, 2023, shows shells, with collecting volunteers in the background, on a beach as part of a survey and counting operation organised by the Flemish Institute of the Sea (VLIZ) in Middelkerke. (Photo by Kenzo Tribouillard / AFP)
Large asteroid to zoom between Earth and Moon 25 Mar 2023 - 12:34 pm
A handout artist's impression released on March 24, 2023 by the European Space Agency (ESA) shows a grey, irregularly-shaped asteroid, rocky objects that often pass safely past Earth. (Photo by Handout / EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY / AFP)