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‘Make America rake again’: Finns savagely troll Trump over weird wildfire gaffe

Crews searching for remains of people after the devastating Northern California wildfire are stepping up their efforts ahead of rains forecast for later this ...

Look Up! The Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks This Weekend

You will need a warm jacket and patience waiting for what's expected to be around 20 meteors per hour at its peak about three hours before sunrise Sunday. Anoth...

Astronomers discover ‘super-Earth’ six light years away

The planet, Barnard's star b, and its host star are located six light-years from Earth. Barnard's Star is the second-closest red dwarf star to our solar syste...

SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Ready To Liftoff From NASA's Kennedy Space Center

In addition to launching the satellite, SpaceX had said it would attempt to land the rocket on a drone ship for reuse. The next launch from the Cape comes...

Experimental Chinese fusion reactor achieves temperatures of 100 million C

Hefei Institute of Physical Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences officially announced on Tuesday that they have managed to reach a scorching level of 18...

A new "Super Earth" planet has been discovered

For most of human history, people wondered if there were other planets out there in the unfathomable reaches of space. "There's so much possibility there". Beca...

Late season tropical wave strengthening near Lesser Antilles

The National Hurricane Center is monitoring a disturbance that is located east of the Leeward Islands. There have been seven major November hurricanes sin...

Rocket Lab Completes First Commercial Launch Of Its Electron Rocket

Six satellites are now orbiting Earth for paying customers, after a flawless launch yesterday just before 5pm. The company has six Electron rockets in produ...

Hawking's thesis and wheelchair sold for $1.6m, Europe News & Top Stories

The auction was titled as "On the Shoulder of Giants " which is a reference to the famous phrase once used by Newton: "If I have seen further it is by standing...

MPs show support for Jo Johnson after resignation

British PM Theresa May's office on Friday reiterated her position that there will not, under any circumstances, be a second referendum. In a video on Twitt...

Stephen Hawking’s wheelchair sells at charity auction

Described as "arguably both literally and metaphorically the most-travelled wheelchair in history", the specially-adapted chair had originally been expected to ...

Mushrooms can now generate electricity

Scientists saw that cyanobacteria produced 65 nanoAmps through photosynthesis when they shined a light on the bionic mushroom . Now, a team of U.S. researchers...

Supreme Court ban on firecrackers goes up in smoke

Experts believe that not only the burning of crackers has been responsible for the deteriorating air quality but replacement of moderate winds with light and ca...

Russia Reports Computer Bug on International Space Station

The module will also be capable of hosting scientific experiments. Step forward China . China already has experience with Earth-orbiting space stations. Chin...

Earth's protective ozone layer is finally healing

The measures taken to fix the damage will also have an important beneficial effect on climate change, as some of the gases that caused the ozone layer to thin a...

Hubble Space Telescope snaps smiley-shaped cluster of galaxies

NASA says the "mouth" is created by a trick of the light. "Her world passed near a massive object in its way, causing it to become distorted and stretched", exp...

Oumuamua May Have Been an Alien Spaceship, Astronomers Say

That's why the researchers raise the possibility that Oumuamua's an alien craft in the new issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters . The object was discover...

SpaceX's Starman and Tesla Roadster Have Gone Beyond Mars

However, this does not take the fact that the regulators are investigating whether Tesla's were deliberately misleading. Tesla's SEC filing said that an enfor...

Ministers on standby for emergency cabinet meeting to approve final Brexit deal

British sources said there was "significant work still to resolve the outstanding matters", but indicated the Cabinet would be rapidly summoned if the pieces fe...

Mission done: NASA lost contact with the station Dawn

It then moved to the dwarf planet Ceres in 2015, becoming the first spacecraft to visit such a space object, NASA reported. "The astounding images and data ...

NASA Officially Announced The ‘Death’ Of The Kepler Space Telescope

Now, however, the spacecraft has run out of its hydrazine fuel and officially entered retirement. TESS's observing pattern, rather than staring at a single pa...

Pollution: Delhi’s air quality may deteriorate severely from next week

Measures for air pollution control to be in force from November 1 to November 10 include shut down of Mundka industrial area, ban on construction and excavati...

Brazil elects Bolsonaro in major swing to the right

Brazil's right-wing candidate Bolsonaro of the Social Liberal Party won the country's presidential run-off on Sunday, with a 55.13 percent of the valid votes a...

DECISION 2018: Early Voting Shows Republicans Out Voting Democrats

CNN's own analysis of a handful of seven critical states finds that women and older voters are performing their civic duty earlier in greater numbers in those ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe Just Smashed Two Records in a Single Day

Probe Parker, October 29, at about 13:04 East coast time US (19:04 CET) broke the previous record of this kind, belonging to the German-American Helios 2 prob...

Kepler Space Telescope officially retired

Without fuel, the Kepler team has chose to retire the spacecraft , though it will continue to drift along in orbit around Earth for the foreseeable future. Eng...

NASA chose to stop the mission of the Kepler telescope

The Kepler space telescope of NASA which discovered 2,700 exoplanets distant star systems is now officially retired after running out of fuel. But more impo...

NASA spacecraft sets record for closest approach to sun

Earth orbits the sun at a speed of around 30 kilometres (18.6 miles) every second. After that, the probe will burn up in the sunlight. The space agency sai...

Russian Federation blames rocket failure on mistake during assembly

The last time Russian Federation saw an aborted manned launch was in 1983, when two Soviet cosmonauts jettisoned and landed safely after a launch pad explosion....

Coca-Cola, Mars, Unilever and H&M sign up to major plastic waste campaign

The New Plastics Economy Global Commitment will be launched in collaboration with the UN Environment at the Our Ocean Conference in Bali later today (29 Oc...

60 per cent wildlife wiped out, ours last generation that could act

Between climate change and the human need for more and more space, our world is shrinking. [Figure 2 - source: WWF Living Planet Report-2018] State of Ear...

Tropical Storm Oscar forms in Atlantic Ocean

The Tropical Storm Oscar has got upgraded into a Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 120 kmph. The Atlantic hurricane season ends on November 3...

Cuadrilla Pauses Lancashire Fracking After 17th Earthquake In 9 Days

Drilling for shale gas at Preston New Road, Little Plumpton, started on 15 October after a legal challenge failed. Cuadrilla was hydraulically fracturing th...

Oscar Strengthens Into Tropical Storm

Oscar already packs sustained winds around 60 miles per hour. Oscar is the eighth hurricane in the Atlantic this season, and is located approximately 725 mi...

Ice, Ice Baby: Second Strange Rectangular Iceberg Spotted in Antarctica

You may recall the first image , which was taken by the NASA's IceBridge , a fleet of research aircraft dedicated to studying Earth's polar ice by measuring a...