NASA has recently unveiled its futuristic Mars rover concept vehicle at Kennedy Space Center, and it looks something out of this world.

A team of Czech scientists says they have discovered a new branch of meteors belonging to the meteor stream known as the Taurus — a branch featuring asteroids that could pose a serious threat to Earth in the near future.

Life in the Arctic ocean is much more resistant to global warming than previously suspected, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Aberdeen.

The study, published Tuesday, refutes speculations that global warming would cause a massive disruption to the Arctic ecosystem by killing off the algae living under sea ice.

Scientists claim that Arctic sea ice is experiencing a record decline.

As Arctic Sea Ice Shows Record Decline, Scientists Prepare to Go Blind

Data from NSIDC shows that the Arctic is actually experiencing a record low decline in sea ice, since the peak on March 3.

In a race to catch up with its competitors, Apple on Monday unveiled a smart home speaker and numerous software updates emphasizing artificial intelligence at the Worldwide Developers Conference.

The reduction in global temperature after the recent El Nino continues though not as swiftly as some predicted. The next few months will be interesting to see if it returns to levels seen before the recent El Nino took place when global annual average temperatures changed little for at least 15 years.

The EU’s total greenhouse gas emissions increased in 2015 for the first time since 2010.

Hundreds of thousands of scientists took to streets around the world in April. “We need science because science tells the truth. We are those who can fight the fake news,” a friend who participated in one of the March for Science rallies told me. I really wish this were true. Sadly, much evidence suggests otherwise.

http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php

Arctic sea ice extent continues to run well above the level of the last two years.

While there are lots of theories about black holes, a staple of singularity lore is that all black holes have event horizons — a one-way membrane through which particles fall in, never to return. Einstein’s theory of general relativity says that all black holes have an event horizon where nothing, not even light, can escape the gravitational pull of these extremely dense objects.

The Houston-based company Axiom Space announced Monday plans to launch the first-ever commercial space station into orbit in 2020.

Scientists all over the world have been attempting to recreate photosynthesis in the lab in hopes of being able to mimic the process to create fuel.

About 650 light years away, a planet hotter than many stars is hurtling around its sun, leaving a glowing trail of gas in its wake like some sort of superheated comet.

Solar activity impacts Pacific weather
By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt
(German text translated/edited by P Gosselin)

In a joint US-German study, seven scientists recently tried to discredit the sun’s impact on climate.

Alien civilizations could be attempting to communicate with us using extremely advanced neutrino-based communication systems and we may be unable to detect it, according to a Thursday Universe Today article.