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There is a treat for early risers on the morning of October 8, as people will be able to view groupings of bright planets. Those who will not be able to get up on time, they do not need to worry as evening sky offers stargazing as well.

The action will take place in the eastern sky. As per officials, if people see it on time then they will be able to see four planets as well as a crescent moon all at once. Venus will be the one leading the grouping. Authorities concerned affirmed that Venus is the brightest of all and rises early as well.

People will be able to see a crescent moon, Venus, the bright star Regulus with Mars and Jupiter. Experts said that Venus will also look like a distant crescent moon.

A number of studies have already warned that global warming is going to make life difficult on earth. Now, oceanographers have predicted that the planet is going to experience stronger El Niño events in near future, and these events will affect sea levels strongly.

Axel Timmermann, an oceanographer at the University of Hawaii, said it is like climate change on steroids. An El Niño event can result into changes in patterns of wind and changes in ocean currents. These changes lead to redistribution of warm water and drop in sea levels.

According to climate researchers, as temperatures around the world are rising rapidly, there are high chances that El Niño events will be common in future. These events will force sea levels to swing from one extreme to the other, they added.

Long considered non-biodegradable plastic, which is among biggest contributors to global pollution, has possibly met its match that is the small, brownish, squirmy mealworm. According to researchers, the mealworm can survive on a diet of Styrofoam and other kinds of plastic.

New studies published in Environmental Science and Technology by co-authors Professor Jun Yang and his doctorate student Yu Yang of Beihang University, and Stanford University engineer Wei-Min Wu, have suggested that the mealworm's gut have microorganisms that can biodegrade polyethylene, which is a common form of plastic.

Researchers said in a paper, published in Nature, that the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was made of two formerly separate bodies that have possibly come together in a gentle collision when the solar system was at forming stage. They said it’s a cometary collaboration that lasted billions of years.

In July 2014, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta orbiter started sending back the earliest pictures of comet 67P’s strange, bi-lobed shape. Since then, scientists have been wondering about the origins of its unusual morphology.

The comet consists of three different regions, including a main lobe (the main body of the ‘duck’), a small lobe (the head) and a thin, neck-like area, connecting the two.

A new research, led by Richard Aronson, a professor of biological sciences at the Florida Institute of Technology, has found that rising water temperatures off the coast of Antarctica due to global climate change may be putting the weak marine ecosystem against an unpredicted danger, the risk of an invasion of shell-crushing crabs.

A research carried in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday has found that conditions are turning in a way that had indicated an invasion of king crabs on the continental shelf off the western Antarctic Peninsula.

All personal care products like toothpaste, face wash, scrubbers, and shampoos contains thousands of microbeads, tiny plastic pellets that can cause severe harm to body. As per latest news released on Wednesday, New York City Council is planning to ban use of microbeads in products.

Microbeads are so small in size that they can enter into lungs and cause many respiratory problems like asthma bronchitis. As per statistical report released by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in 2014, about 19 tons of microbeads end up in waterways throughout the state. Eric even raised his voice twice to ban use of the microbeads across the state but all his efforts went in vain.