“We were diving for approximately three and a half hours and at about the two-hour mark we were all looking at each other thinking this is not looking promising,” researcher Antonia Cooper said. Scientists in Australia have discovered a new population of red handfish, thought to be the world’s rarest fish. The new population was …

The macaques were born eight and six weeks ago, having been cloned using a technique called ‘somatic cell nuclear transfer’ Over 20 years since Dolly the Sheep was cloned , history has been made again as the first monkey clones have been produced in the same way. The macaques, which have been named Zhong Zhong …

“With this algorithm we have taken a step forward towards integrating autonomously navigating drones into our everyday life,” said researcher Davide Scaramuzza. Autonomous flight is no problem in open airspace, but today’s self-flying drones are ill-equipped to navigate busy city streets and tree-filled neighborhoods at low altitudes. Researchers at the University of Zurich are trying …

The intermediate-sized asteroid 2002 AJ129 will make its closest approach to Earth next month — 2.6 million miles away. A half-mile-wide asteroid is scheduled to make a close pass by Earth next month. According to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, asteroid 2002 AJ129 will make its closest approach to Earth on Feb. 4 at 4:30 p.m. …

Want to take a virtual ride through the Orion Nebula? Hubble has the ticket. Scientists at Hubble used visible and infrared light data to create a 3D journey through the famed nebula. Visible light observations were captured by the Hubble Space Telescope and infrared data was observed by the Spitzer Space Telescope. Scientists first combined …