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We're Living Through Earth's Second-Hottest Year, Says US Agency

The government agency noted that the average global land and ocean surface temperature last month was 1.76 degrees above the 20th-century average of 57.1 degree...

‘Possibility of life’: scientists map Saturn’s exotic moon Titan

The global geologic map of Titan . Titan's atmosphere is dense and hazy, just like Earth's . SEE ALSO: Saturn Dethrones Jupiter With Its 20 New Moons....

How to Watch the Rare 'Unicorn' Meteor Storm Thursday Night

By comparison, 20 meteors per hour were visible during last month's Orionid meteor shower . As EarthSky explains , the alpha Monocerotids are produced by a ...

Spacecraft record weird ‘music’ of our planet during solar storm

The full findings of the study will be published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters . Thus, there was a freaky "song" of Earth's magnetic field . Sol...

Jupiter's Moon Europa Has Water Vapor - Scientists

Occasionally, giant geysers erupt into space , but scientists couldn't prove those plumes had water in them. For many years, scientists have suspected that t...

Space agency announces Neptune moons 'dance’ to avoid cosmic collision

The capture of the great Neptune moon Triton might explain where Naiad and Thalassa originated from and how they came to be spinning around the planet in ...

The Leonid Meteor Shower peaks Sunday night

This meteor shower is the result of earth passing through the path of comet Tempel-Tuttle. The meteor shower will begin around midnight local time across the ...

Climate Change Is Making Us Sick

But the worst effects will fall to the youngest, and most dire for them lie ahead. Wednesday's report does provide a glimmer of hope. "To the extent that we...

Calling all canines for national Dog Aging Project

Dogs from all 50 states, and of all ages, sizes, and breeds may apply. The researchers' expertise comes from a wide range of fields and institutions. Leslie L...

Mars 2020 Rover to Search for Signs of Ancient Life

Scientists say the materials could contain information about how Mars became inhospitable for life. "Stromatolites", which are the most ancient fossilized life ...

4C rise by 2090 will have catastrophic impact on kids

For the world to meet its United Nations climate goals and protect the health of the next generation, the energy landscape will have to change drastically, the ...

India May Attempt 'Chandrayaan 3' Moon Landing In November 2020

After a long break, the India Space Research Center had published images and the scientific data from its recent mission, Chandrayaan-2, which faced a lot of is...

Chase Young will return after Ohio State’s game this week

Young, who leads the country in sacks with 13.5, sat out last Saturday against Maryland after the NCAA rules violation came to light. The NCAA determined ...

Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks in Hawaii

Look up on Saturday and Sunday night as well to spot bright meteors with trains streaming behind them. November is the month of the Earth is treated to bright...

Policies to curb carbon emissions insufficient as energy demand rises - IEA

But now the Turkish economist and the International Energy Agency are facing mounting pressure from groups concerned about climate change - including investors,...

SpaceX conducts static fire of Crew Dragon's abort system engines

The space company attempted a similar set of static fire engine tests on April 20th, but it admitted a few days later that the Crew Dragon capsule it used...

Mystery as NASA Mars Rover finds oxygen which scientists ‘struggle to explain’

After it was able to locate methane on the planet, studies coming from its spot in the Gale crater have found regular charges to the methane that has not be...

Supreme Court asks Centre to explore possibilities of combating air pollution

Earlier in the day, taking suo motu cognisance of the worsening air quality, the Supreme Court bench, led by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, asked the Centre to sub...

Japan's Hayabusa2 is returning to Earth with asteroid samples

Starting tomorrow, the spacecraft will leave Ryugu ambitious and head back to Earth, the asteroid sample bringinghopefullyits along with it. "Ryugu has been a...

Fanged miniature mouse-deer rediscovered by scientists in Vietnam

This project was made possible in part by the generous support of Wroclaw Zoo, Aukland Zoo, Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund (Project 172515989), and...

Wind chill below zero, snow likely in MA this week

Some dry time early in the morning will be replaced by widespread snow for most locations. This snow will develop through the mid-to-late morning, and expand in...

SpaceX launches 60 more mini satellites for global internet

The same Falcon 9 has been launched and landed for the fourth time. © Provided by CBS Interactive Inc. After more than three months, SpaceX will once ag...

Planet Mercury passes across the face of the Sun

Since the orbits of Mercury and Venus are located between the sun and earth's orbit, it makes it possible for the two planets to transit in front of the sun. Me...

Mercury to pass across the sun Monday

Should you not have one of those, "your local astronomy club may have an opportunity to see the transit using specialized, properly-filtered solar telescopes", ...

Italy injects environment into curriculum

Now when kids show up to school next September, they'll have about an hour a week (or 33 hours per year) of a climate-change-related course. Speaking earlier ...

UVI Invites Public to Solar Transit of Mercury

Australia and most of Asia are out of luck. After this year's event, the next Mercury transit will occur on November 13, 2032. At the Washburn Observatory eve...

Rare solar event: Transit of Mercury on November 11

At minimum aspect of its 5½-hour journey will be visible from most areas on Earth. Because of these planets' size relative to the sun, a transit can only be se...

NASA to study previously unopened Apollo sample

NASA's call to industry asking American companies to provide an integrated human landing system for the agency's Artemis lunar exploration programme, has b...

Italy makes climate change education obligatory

Fioramonti said all state schools would dedicate 33 hours per year, nearly one hour per school week, to climate change issues from the start of the next aca...

International Olympic Committee pledges $10 million to anti-doping fight

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach pledged $10 million to fight doping in sports, half of which would go toward storing samples from pre-Ol...

SpaceX achieves key milestone in safety testing of Crew Dragon spacecraft

With its latest successful test, SpaceX showed that its Mark 3 Crew Dragon parachutes would be able to hold their weight even if not all goes according to...

Voyager 2 arrives at interstellar space, finds increased plasma density

Voyager 2's exit out of the bubble was not without surprises. "It's kind of like looking at an elephant with a microscope", Bill Kurth, also from the Univers...

Scientists from around the world declare climate emergency

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in that it does not couch its conclusions in the wishy-washy language of uncertainties, and it does prescribe polic...

Israel crashed its lunar lander into the Moon's surface

For 48 days, Beresheet's ground crew watched, monitored and executed every maneuver of the spacecraft from a control center at IAI's Yehud headquarters. Israel'...

Voyager 2's First Reports from Interstellar Space Surprise Scientists

According to the scientists, this jump was detected by one of the instruments on Voyager 2 and is evidence of the probe making its way "from the hot, lower-dens...