The storm is expected to turn into a category 4 cyclone as it hits Queensland towns on 28 March.
About 60 high schools students were on a mountaineering trip when the avalanche struck in Tochigi prefecture.
Hawking appeared as a hologram at a conference in Hong Kong to talk about Brexit, Trump and more.
Nasa's long-term project is aimed at boosting communications technology for future missions to the moon and Mars and beyond.
Commuters have a few options to limit exposure to dirty city air for themselves and their families.
The research is at an early stage with no application motives.
Astronomers believe cosmic collisions between galaxy clusters have created giant magnetic fields.
Drone mapping of dinosaurs' tracks is expected to revolutionise the way researchers investigate dinosaurs.
UN Food and Agriculture Organisation fears for food security as species moves across African countries.
At least 84 people have been killed been killed across Peru in floods and landslides caused by El Nino storms.
The Colossi of Memnon and Amenhotep III Temple Conservation Project had made yet another exciting discovery.
An amazing array of geckoes evolved in the deserts of Australia after the mass extinction.
Bean says that if an advanced alien civilisation had been to Earth they would have made contact.
A team of scientists say what seems like water is just an optical illusion.
The "Flight of the Lights" took off for the Antarctic Circle with 130 passengers on board.
Hotly debated and controversial move would prevent all use of neonicotinoids.
Lawyers believe Rex Tillerson used a different account to discuss potentially murky business.
IBTimes UK visits Tete province, where communities have been impacted by El Nino-linked drought.
The 7.8 magnitude earthquake saw 12 faults rupturing up to 15km apart.
Top environmental success stories from the past year to think about when the lights go out.
Whenever crocodiles and humans overlap, there will be a risk of attack – but culling is not the answer.
Synlight was switched on at the Institute for Solar Research in Jülich.
Sea levels are rising at China's coasts by more than 3mm a year.
During the intense dry period, the water reaching the Dead Sea dropped to just 20% of modern levels.
There are just over two weeks left to enter the world's biggest space photography contest.
It is unclear yet what impact the deaths will have on monkeys' social organisations in the forest.
The rock carvings are about 2,000 years older than the ancient cemetery where they were found.
Scientists used Swarm satellites to confirm huge electrical fields drive 'Birkeland current boundary flows'.
Ice extent in the Arctic has been decreasing steadily, but Antarctic ice has taken a sudden dip.
Humans may have eaten each other in southern Spain, during the Mesolithic era.