A meteor is coming and we're all going to die, British teacher tells pupils
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A British schoolteacher, attempting to motivate her pupils into making the most of each day, told them a meteorite was about to smash into the Earth and that they should all return home to say goodbye to their families, a report said.
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Astronomers in Indonesia say a large meteor was the most likely explanation for a loud explosion which was heard in Jakarta on Sunday.
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A UK space scientist has warned that a broken oxygen generator could spell disaster for the International Space Station (ISS). The Elecktron unit, which converts waste water into hydrogen and oxygen gases, broke
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Students will soon be taught climate change and how to manage their finances as England&#39;s school secondary curriculum is overhauled to make it more interesting and relevant to children.
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An explosion on a distant comet, Holmes, is studied by UK astronomers using the Isaac Newton Telescope.
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Scientists handling the next Mars mission say the only way a significant dust storm like the one raging on Mars in recent days could seriously harm their spacecraft is if one were to suddenly whip up during the critical descent phase.
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Tiny meteors, typically no larger than a grain of sand, frequently bore hot tunnels through Earth&#39;s air to leave behind thin, glowing trails of gas. We sometimes see them as dramatic &quot;shooting stars.&quot;
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NAIK NAM, Afghanistan -- Saher Gul was chalking a long division lesson on the blackboard of his two-room village school. Twenty-five boys, ages 9 to 19, were sitting cross-legged on the dirt floor. Suddenly the earthen walls and ceiling exploded and collapsed, smothering the class in a mountain of rubble.
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Friday the 13th has an ominous meaning for some people. Friday, April 13, 2029 might have an ominious meaning for everyone. That&#39;s when a 1,300-foot asteroid known as 2004 MN4 could hit the Earth: NASA has
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We have seen it all in the movies. Asteroids coming towards the earth promising devastation of the kind we have experienced before.
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It's a tough world, all right. Too bad it's not tougher. Right now Earth is looking pretty fragile as it suffers from increasing human punishment.
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LONDON - The world faces a surge in extreme weather events because of global warming and governments must act immediately to avert disaster, Britain&#39;s chief scientist said yesterday.
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Weather forecasting just isn't what it used to be. With thousands of satellites orbiting Earth, with astronauts living in the international space station and perhaps venturing later to the moon and Mars, and with nations utterly dependent on space-based assets for their communications, navigation and spying, those responsible for the safety of all these moving parts need to know about a whole new world of weather conditions. ...
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The world faces a surge in extreme weather events because of global warming and governments must act immediately to avert disaster, Britain's chief scientist said on Tuesday.
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The government's chief scientist says UK must prepare for heatwaves and torrential rain.
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Danger for dummies In an apparent acknowledgment of the plummeting standard of public scientific education in the West, the UN's nuclear tentacle today unveiled a new danger sign for radiation which must approach the nadir of literalism.â¦
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Headteacher is told establishing non-religious education would be 'politically impossible'.