Category: Nature

The bright Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE), which has garnered the attention of skywatchers around the world in recent weeks, will make its closest approach to Earth tonight (July 22). At approximately 9:09 p.m. EDT (0109 GMT on July 23), Comet NEOWISE will reach perigee, or its closest distance to Earth.…

Grim photos show the sea turning bright red as more than 250 whales were slaughtered in the Faroe Islands, as part of Grindadràp, an annual tradition in the region. Campaigners have spoken out to condemn the controversial ritual, which is believed to date back 1,000 years, following the first hunt…

A group of koalas that were burned out of their homes and left in deep trouble earlier on this year have been allowed to return and show that the Australian bush isn’t a lost cause, after all. Some heartwarming video shows the five koalas being released back into the Tidbinbilla…

Brace yourselves to be dazzled by Comet Neowise that will be bright enough to be seen by the naked eye at nighttime during this month of July 2020. Nighttime gazers in Norfolk have already seen it and now it is our turn. Many comets break up when they pass the…

Oh, how much we still don’t know about this planet we call home. So many mysteries left to uncover, so many puzzles left to crack! In 2012, one such peculiar puzzle fell straight into the hands of six Russian scientists and left them quite intrigued, to say the least. In…

A decade of the sun, in the palm of your hand; NASA has put together a mesmerising one-hour video of an entire solar cycle.  From February 2010 to June this year, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured 425 million high-resolution images of the sun. This amounts to a whopping 20…

This has to be the calmest man ever! We don’t know much about this guy, other than he is clearly one with nature and is pretty much fearless. The video below starts out with this young sitting on his deck reading a book…as a large black bear strolls up behind…

A hunter from Australia was left with a hole in his knee and an eight-inch gash below his bum after a buffalo he shot gored him in its death throes. Chris McSherry spotted the animal in Port Bradshaw, just off the northeast coast of the Northern Territory, and shot two…