Greta Thunberg has said she ‘doesn’t care’ about the jet-setting exploits of celebrities who preach about the environment in an interview ahead of her 18th birthday. The teenage climate change activist became the face of the youth climate movement after launching a solo ‘school strike’ outside the Swedish parliament aged just 15. Since then, Miss Thunberg – who … Read more
Boris Johnson warned climate change is ‘far more destructive’ than coronavirus as he opened the online United Change conference. Co-hosting the virtual summit today, the Prime Minister suggested a green recovery from Covid-19 pandemic could create thousands of jobs and radically cut the world’s dependence on fossil fuels. He noted it could also change farming … Read more
A Jupiter-like planet called HD106906 b, which orbits two stars 336 light-years away, could shed light on the hypothesised member of our Solar System known as ‘Planet Nine’. HD106906 b, which is around 11 times the mass of Jupiter, is an exoplanet – a planet outside our Solar System. It resides a whopping 738 astronomical units away from its … Read more
The sale of gas boilers should be banned by 2033, a report by climate experts has said as Britain is urged to go cut carbon emissions more drastically over the next 15 years. The Committee on Climate Change has called for newly fitted boilers to be ‘hydrogen-ready’ from 2025 onwards, which could make them around £100 more expensive. … Read more
The two largest planets in the solar system, Jupiter and Saturn, will appear closer to each other in the night sky than at any point in the past 800 years, astronomers say. Both gas giants, they have been gradually getting closer to one another since the start of summer and will appear almost as double … Read more
The UK build Rosalind Franklin rover is a step closer to landing on the surface of the Red Planet after parachute tests in the Oregon desert proved a success. A pair of parachutes – each with a diameter of 115ft – will be used to slow the UK’s first ever Mars rover as it lands … Read more
Daisy Ridley crash lands on a planet full of men (much to the shock of Tom Holland) in trailer for dystopian sci-fi thriller Chaos Walking By Andrew Bullock For Mailonline Published: 16:35 GMT, 19 November 2020 | Updated: 16:35 GMT, 19 November 2020 Sci-fi fans were delighted to finally get a glimpse of upcoming thriller … Read more
Each year Lonely Planet produces a much-anticipated bucket list ranking of the top spots to travel to in the following year, called Best in Travel. This year the adventure experts have reimagined the listing to ‘reflect how the world and attitudes to travel have changed’ – so now it’s all about celebrating commitment to community, … Read more
A rocket booster flung into the abyss of space during a 1966 mission to the Moon has been caught by Earth’s gravity and will orbit our planet ‘for a few weeks’. NASA launched the Surveyor 2 mission to the Moon in 1966 but an issue mid-flight resulted in the spacecraft losing control and NASA eventually … Read more
Planet between Saturn and Uranus was ‘kicked out of the Solar System’ in its infancy — pushing the ice giants into new orbits around the sun Researchers from the US ran 6,000 models of the Solar System’s evolution They identified the model that best explained the orbital patterns seen today The team concluded that Jupiter and Saturn began in … Read more