A new image captured by European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft showcases an ice crater on the surface of mars.

The Korolev Crater is 82 km wide and nearly 2 kms deep, and holds perpetually frozen water in its basin. Ice still exists on Mars near its poles and the Martian atmosphere has tiny amounts of water vapour.

Kirsten Siebach, a planetary geologist at Rice University in Houston, claims that there used to be water in rivers and lakes on Mars but it largely either froze as the atmosphere dissipated or was lost to space.

Six people were taken to hospital after a tourist bus flipped 20 meters down an embankment in the Gold Coast Hinterland last night.

Eighteen tourists and a bus driver had set out from O'Reilly's Rainforest Retreat on a glow worm tour.

When the driver stopped on the roadside to check a mechanical issue, the bus began rolling. The driver jumped back inside but was unable to stop it for careering off the road and down an embankment.

Former Queensland Premier Campbell Newman calls for the legalisation and regulation of illicit drugs following the drug-related death at the national Music Festival, FOMO.

Campbell Newman has previously stated that we have lost the war on drugs, and has established to Sky News that he could easily buy drugs such as marijuana and ice off the street.

Newman believes that the consumption should be treated as a health issue and not a political issue.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has introduced new laws for citizenship ceremonies including requiring a dress code for New Australians attending their citizenship ceremony.

Local councils will be forced to hold the event on Australia Day, rather than opting for alternative dates.

The dress code will ban new citizens from wearing thongs and boardies to their ceremony.

Australia has become the first western country to ban secure encryption, allowing the government to demand encrypted data from companies without judicial review.

Products from Facebook, Google, Apple and Microsoft must now include systematic weaknesses, which will allow the Government to intercept data.

The bill has only passed Australia’s lower chamber, while the upper chamber has indicated it will pass the legislation provided there are later votes on unspecific parts of the bill.

Los Angeles teachers are on strike for the first time in 30 years, leaving over 600,000 students in limbo.

32,000 Los Angeles educators walked off the job Monday in the country’s second-biggest school district. Los Angeles Unified School District has hired about 400 substitute teachers and reassigned more than 2,000 administrators in response.

Antarctica is losing ice six times faster today, than in the 1980s.

Scientists used aerial photographs, satellite measurements and computer models to track how fast the continent has been melting since 1979 and have found ice loss to be accelerating dramatically.

Since 2009, Antartica has lost almost 278 billion tons of ice per year. This contrasts from the 1980s where it was only losing 44 billion tons a year. The recent melting rate is 15% higher than what a study found last year.

More than 13 million animals were used for scientific purposes last year, marking a 194 percent increase since 2017.

Over 50 percent of projects were attributed to environmental studies, a quarter was for the ‘maintenance and and improvement of animals or human welfare’, and the remainder provided information for education, biology and improving animal management.

Humane Research Australian Chief Helen Marston wants animal testing phased out, as she considered the testing animals have undergone to be ‘truly horrendous’.