SCIENCE

Tabby's Star aka KIC 8462852 appears to be inexplicably dimming and brightening sporadically like no other star known to science.

Recent cold snap is set to become deteriorate as a freezing meteorological "bomb cyclone" is predicted to affect East Coast.

A new study claims that global warming not only destroys the planet, it also hurts people's earning capacity in future.

The technique could provide historians new insights into ancient Egyptians and their everyday lives.

The image was taken from a distance of about 5 million kilometres.

Researchers developed "optically pumped" magnetometers that picked up signals as faint as one-millionth of the Earth's magnetic field strength.

The bone-chillingly cold temperatures have frozen parts of Niagara Falls and caused a mile-long pile-up on Interstate 90 near Buffalo, New York.

The calf is being looked after by forest officials who are attempting to find its mother and reunite the two.

The lunar event marked the second episode of the famous "Supermoon trilogy" that started in December and is slated to end with the 31 January blue blood red moon.

It is still unclear as to what the Zuma satellite's mission is and what branch of the US government the spacecraft belongs to.

A great white shark, named Miss Costa, was spotted swimming off the coast of Florida in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday (1 January).

Storm Eleanor is battering Britain with 80mph winds and there are warnings that there could be a threat to life as the bad weather gathers pace.

"Meritocracy places a strong need for young people to strive, perform and achieve in modern life," researchers say.

2018 is slated to be an exciting year for Nasa and its fans as the space exploration organisation has a lot of missions, updates and extensive plans scheduled across the year.

Temperatures at Calgary Zoo plummeted to an average of -28 degrees Celsius during the recent cold snap.

Metalenses are flat devices which use specially engineered nanostructures to focus light, mimicking the way traditional curved lenses work, while taking up a fraction of the space.

"Not since the Luddites of the industrial revolution has a topic engendered such emotion and sensationalism".

Invasion of black and brown rats to Duncan Island pushed the Galápagos tortoise to the brink of extinction.

The main payload will be India's own Cartosat-2 series Earth Observation satellite

"All the indicators are that we could be looking at a chocolate deficit of 100,000 tonnes a year in the next few years," researcher Doug Hawkins said.

Wildlife rescuers scrambled after being called in to remove dozens of eggs discovered in a sandpit at a school in New South Wales.

Thirteen monkeys have died in a fire at Woburn Safari Park in Bedfordshire. The incident took place in the early hours of Tuesday, 2 January.

A record-breaking arctic freeze has frozen the iconic Niagara falls, with tourists posting jaw-dropping photos of the falls on social media.

Across the northern hemisphere a few brave (or foolhardy) souls celebrated the festive season by diving into frozen lakes or paddling in frigid oceans.

Using samples from surfaces in the space lab, unknown microbes have been collected and identified.

Researchers have reportedly gathered observational evidence to posit a weird correlation between the mass of supermassive black holes at the centre of a galaxy and star-formation.

Kathryn Curzon, co-founder of the marine conservation organisation Friends for Sharks, tells IBTimes UK how to deal with a fear of shark attacks.

More than 700 sightings of the green flash of light were reported to the International Meteor Organisation (IMO).

Around 2,000 to 8,000 pounds of debris from the Chinese satellite is expected to crash on Earth.