Pippa Middleton, sister of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, married in a traditional ceremony in England. Her niece and nephew, the Princess Charlotte and Prince George, were pagegirl and pageboy in the wedding, and it was attended by Princes William and Harry.
IceCube, a tiny satellite with an experimental radiometer onboard, was released from the International Space Station. It’s set to study ice clouds from space and could improve weather models, according to NASA. Watch it go in this video.
A huge swarm of bees hit the famous Greenwich market, part of London, at rush hour sending onlookers screaming and ducking for cover. Videos were shared on social media by Abigail Hering, who runs the nearby Beadoir jewellery shop. She posted footage of the spectacle on Twitter, describing it as “absolutely crazy”.
Over the long May Day weekend in England, an office cat name Felix, who hangs around the London Royal Docks, got chased after a feline fight and tumbled into the Thames River. A man identified by the Guardian as a Royal Docks Management Authority employee dashed in to retrieve Felix.
Earth Day, first celebrated in 1970, is set for April 22,2017, and to mark the day, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory posted observations from children about Earth and its importance. Here’s what they had to say.
NASA showed video of the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft on its way to the International Space Station carrying Expedition 51 crew members Fyodor Yurchikhin and Jack “2fish” Fischer.
Asteroid 2014 JO25 is more than a million miles away, and NASA says the peanut-shaped rock isn’t coming this close again for at least 500 years. Still, the asteroid makes a relatively close flyby on Wednesday, April 19,2017, Scientists are excited for a chance to study the asteroid at close proximity. Here are images showing the spinning asteroid.
President Trump retaliated against the Assad government for a chemical attack in Syria that killed more than 80 civilians.
Overnight an avalanche of water from three rivers swept through a small city in Colombia killing at least 154 people.
Expedition 50 Commander and astronaut Shane Kimbrough of NASA and Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency conduct a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on March 24,2017, to do work that will accommodate the arrivals of commercial crew vehicles. The spacewalk is the first of three planned in a two-week period for station crewmembers
NASA has released an awesome video showing what it looks like approaching Pluto. The video is made up of more than 100 high resolution images taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft. The images were taken over six months as the spacecraft flew by Pluto in July 2015. Pluto used to be considered the 9th plant from the sun, but it was later reclassified as a “dwarf planet.”
Police officers and rescue workers inspected the wreckage of a chartered airplane that crashed in a mountainous area of Colombia while carrying Brazilian first division soccer club Chapecoense team. The chartered plane carrying a Brazilian soccer team to the biggest match of its history crashed into a Colombian hillside and broke into pieces, killing 75 people and leaving six survivors, Colombian officials said Tuesday.
Anti-Indian government protesters accused Gandhi of being a racist and pedophile during the statue unveiling ceremony attended by 500 Sunday.
Oktorberfest 2016 is underway in Germany right now. This year, an estimated six million people are expected to attend the party, which began Sept. 17 and ends Monday.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope took direct ultraviolet images of the icy moon Europa transiting across the disk of Jupiter. Out of 10 observations, Hubble saw what may be water vapor plumes on three of the images. This adds another piece of supporting evidence to the existence of water vapor plumes on Europa; Hubble also detected spectroscopic signatures of water vapor in 2012.
An earthquake on Wednesday in Myanmar left at least three people dead and damaged scores of ancient temples in the old city of Bagan, government officials said.
