Watch NASA Launch New Hurricane-Chasing Satellites From A Plane-Riding Rocket

On Monday, NASA plans to launch a constellation of eight hurricane-chasing satellites from a rocket strapped to the underside of a plane. As if that were not metal enough, ...

Google’s ‘Timelapse’ Exposes Human Damage To Earth Over 32 Years

If you’ve ever been captivated by ants hard at work maintaining their colonies, you may want to check out Google Earth Engine’s Timelapse, an interactive tool t...

More young people are watching Planet Earth 2 than The X Factor

It seems the nation’s younger citizens are finally favouring the beauty of the natural world over the wailing of amateur singers.

The BBC has confirmed ...

Planet Earth 2 Answered A Question: Who Will Win A Fight, A Crocodile Or A Jaguar

There seems to be one dramatic moment in Planet Earth II each week that becomes the talking point of the episode. In week one it was the marine iguana chase, in two it was ...

NASA And FEMA Practiced Emergency Operations For An Asteroid Impact

The year is 2020 and Los Angeles is about to be wiped off the face of the planet. You’ve known this day was coming since the fall of 2016, when the asteroid that is o...

World On Track To Lose Two-Thirds Of Wild Animals By 2020, Major Report Warns

The number of wild animals living on Earth is set to fall by two-thirds by 2020, according to a new report, part of a mass extinction that is destroying the natural world u...

Seeing Earth From Space Is The Key To Saving Our Species From Itself

When Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth in April 1961, he carried centuries of hopes and dreams into space with him. Visionaries had long struggled to p...

Why We Started 'WOMAN'

Almost two years ago, feminist activist and writer Gloria Steinem and activist Amy Richards visited the VICE office in Brooklyn to discuss the critical (yet rarely discusse...

Mercury Is More Earth-Like Than We Thought

Mercury has been hiding an exciting secret: the closest planet to our Sun is perpetually shrinking, according to new data from NASA, which shows the appearance of new, tiny...