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Latest forecast has Hurricane Teddy on a course for Atlantic Canada

Hurricane Teddy may be swirling over the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, but its impact will be felt in New England this week. As of late Monday afternoon, tr...

So Tom Cruise Is Actually Going To Space Next Year

On Monday, the Space Shuttle Almanac's Twitter account shared a photo of spacecrafts and countries set to launch. At first glance it may seem like an ordina...

ISS initiates move to avoid space debris

The debris passed within about 1.4 kilometers (nearly one mile) of the ISS, NASA said . SSA also included a manifest in their tweet for the Internationa...

Hundreds of whales dead after stranding off Australia’s Tasmania

Authorities had already been working to rescue survivors among an estimated 270 whales found Monday on a beach and two sand bars near the remote west coast to...

Quebec Premier Francois Legault and his wife test negative for COVID-19

Health authorities announced 586 new cases across the province on Monday, Quebec's highest daily increase since late May, when the first wave began to subside. ...

Bruce: Beta to bring tropical rains through mid-week

Meanwhile, Hurricane Teddy is expected to move near Bermuda with gusty winds, but the worst of the storm is expected to miss the island. It was still sittin...

Australian rescuers work to save stranded pilot whales on Tasmania

Marine Conservation Program wildlife biologist Kris Carlyon said most of the whales were not accessible by boat and that by Monday evening one-third were alread...

Nasa releases plan for Moon return by 2024

The $28 billion would include the budgetary years of 2021-25. NASA is definitely targeting the moon's south pole for a crewed landing in 2024 - but that tim...

Lakers' Davis revels in game-winner: I want the big-time plays

Davis finished the game with 31 points, nine rebounds, two assists and two blocks in 39 minutes. "Just happened, a little bit of miscommunication". I think I ...

First Giant Exoplanet Found Orbiting Extinguished Star

The finding indicates it is possible for Jupiter-sized planets to survive their star's demise and settle into close orbits around what remains, researchers ...

Halloween 2020 will feature rare blue moon and daylight saving time

And the next "calendrical" blue moon - the second full moon in a month - will appear August 30, 2023, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac website. In celest...

Watching Tropical Storm Beta in the Gulf

Beta may still strengthen into a hurricane , though, as it approaches the Texas coast, reaching Category 1 status. Beta is forecast to bring very heavy rain to...

Jupiter, its enticing moon Europa star in new Hubble photo

The new image shows that the storm's core is darkening, which could mean Red Spot Junior is going to turn red again like its older cousin - the Giant Red Spot. ...

Failure For Biodiversity Convention As The World Flunks On All 2020 Targets

The targets were ambitious, but crucial. The latest Global Biodiversity Outlook report (GBO-5 ), which offers an authoritative overview of the state of natu...

Bobcat Fire in California comes dangerously close to Mount Wilson Observatory

Evacuation orders for portions of Arcadia and Sierra Madre were lifted Wednesday, although residents are being urged to stay vigilant and alert should fire con...

Crews Prevent fire damage to famed observatory

The north side of the fire in Cooper Canyon is continuing into the Pleasant View Wilderness. "Crews are constructing handline and dozerline where possible to st...

Massive smoke from wildfire in the US can be seen in Europe

The fires roared to life in California in mid-August, and erupted across OR and Washington around Labor Day last week, many of them sparked by catastrophic ligh...

NASA mulls possible mission to Venus after recent discovery of possible life

The researchers are not claiming life has been detected on the second planet from the sun. However, these new findings suggest the possibility of microbial ac...

Hurricane Sally leaves section of Three Mile Bridge missing in Pensacola

MIAMI - Sally continues to weaken as it moves over the South after hitting the Gulf Coast as a Category 2 hurricane but is still a unsafe rainmaker as it mov...

Sun's activity flares up as NASA confirms start of new solar cycle

The sun's activity has been ramping up over the past nine months as it moves out of a minimum period of activity, experts said. It's important to understand t...

Google aims to run on carbon-free energy by 2030

Alphabet Inc's Google aims to power its data centers and offices using exclusively carbon-free electricity by 2030, building on its previous goal of matching it...

Smoke From Wildfires May Be Carried Over to WNY

When you have dried leaves on the ground it's just fuel for the fires ", Trump said. It seeped into homes and businesses, sneaked into cars through air condi...

Hints of life on Venus

Some scientists have suspected that the Venusian high clouds, with mild temperatures around 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius), could harbour aerial mic...

At Least 35 Dead As Wildfires Rampage Along The West Coast

President Trump on Monday awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross to seven members of the California National Guard who helped rescue over 200 people earlier th...

More small-scale dark matter gravitational lenses than expected in galaxy clusters

These simulations are then tested against what they see in more observations , to ensure they are correctly emulating reality. The higher the concentration o...

Ontario COVID-19 cases exceed 200 again

Health Minister Christine Elliott reports that 67 per cent of the province's cases are in people under the age of 40. Active cases in the city now sit at 255 ...

Climate change has not stopped despite COVID-19 pandemic

In the early to mid-2010s, 1.9 billion people, or 27% of the global population, lived in potential severely water-scarce areas, it said. What this report, a s...

NASA seeking companies to help mine the moon

NASA on Thursday launched an effort to pay companies to mine resources on the moon, announcing it would buy from them rocks, dirt and other lunar materials a...

Colorado seeks to block USPS voting mailer it says is misleading

The card tells voters to request an absentee ballot more than two weeks before the election and to make sure it is mailed at least a week in advance of electi...

Elon Musk's SpaceX And Tom Cruise Could Shoot Movie In Space

But this is real, albeit in the early stages of liftoff". As Engadget reports , yesterday NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine tweeted confirmation that Tom ...

Hurricane watch issued for Bermuda as Paulette approaches

Two areas of disturbed tropical weather are being watched by forecasters. The fourth system is near the coast of Africa and is expected to turn north. Forecas...

OR preparing for wildfires to be 'mass fatality event,' official says

A 12th person died in Siskiyou County in far northern California , state fire authority CalFire reported, providing no further details. OR was preparing for ...

Wildlife in 'catastrophic decline' due to human destruction, scientists warn

Nature and biodiversity also protect humans, he adds, and we're already seeing the effect of that loss of protection. The average size of wildlife populatio...

'Mighty Mice' Experiment Aboard ISS Yields Hopeful Results Against Bone, Muscle Loss

The findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . Maine astronaut Jessica Meir was one of the scientists who worked on the...

Hurricane center eyes system near Florida with 60% chance of development

Forecasters say the disturbance could form into a tropical storm by next week. Paulette's maximum sustained winds were near 65 mph with higher gusts and its...