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Hurricane Michael strengthens into Category 2 storm with 100 miles per hour winds
Hurricane Michael is closing in on the Florida Panhandle, forecast to make landfall as a "monstrous" Category 3 storm with a risky storm surge of up to 12 ...
Hubble Telescope in 'Safe Mode' After Gyro Failure
In 2009. six new gyros were installed - three are used for maximum efficiency and three for backup. "NASA is working to resume science operations", NASA said in...
SpaceX's latest rocket launch dazzles in California's night sky
SpaceX has flown boosters back to land after launches from Florida but has yet to do so in California. But that's possible only when launching relatively light...
Evolving storm Michael expected to slam Florida as hurricane
On Monday morning, the National Weather Service issued a storm surge watch from Navarre to Anna Maria Island, including Tampa Bay. The tropical storm wa...
SpaceX launches rocket over San Diego, then sticks the landing
It was also the first West Coast landing of an orbital class rocket booster on land, SpaceX said. The satellite's twin, SAOCOM-1B, will also launch on a Fal...
41-year old NASA probe may be near interstellar space
And because Voyager 2 isn't following precisely in its predecessor's steps, scientists aren't positive that its cosmic exit will result in identical changes to ...
MI man's doorstop rock turns out to be a $100000 meteorite
Sirbescu says people ask her all the time if odd rocks they found are meteorites. Even though Dr. Sirbescu knew exactly what it was, it had to be sent to th...
SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket Puts on Light Show in Tonight's Sky
This won't be subtle" advised SpaceX founder Elon Musk on his Twitter feed on Sunday. SpaceX has previously landed first stage rockets on land after Florida...
Heads up: Gulf Coast faces a new tropical weather threat
At 8 p.m. Friday, forecasters said the system was producing rainy weather from Central America across the western Caribbean to Hispaniola. The system has a 30...
Possible discovery of exomoon excites astronomers, but what is it?
Other moons , such as Neptune's largest moon Triton, may have been captured from the Kuiper belt . Even if it might be unusual that a Neptune-sized moo...
First alien moon discovered is gaseous
In a paper published Wednesday in Science Advances magazine, researchers at Columbia University outline evidence supporting the existence of a moon orbiti...
Tracking the Tropics: Leslie changes to tropical storm
Leslie is moving toward the southwest near 6 miles per hour (9 km/h), and this general motion is expected to continue through Sunday. Leslie strengthened int...
CMU professor confirms Michigan's 6th largest meteorite found in Montcalm County
The rock, which came down on farmland in Edmore, Michigan , in the 1930s, could be worth $100,000 (£77,000). Even though Dr. Sirbescu knew exactly what it wa...
Rock used as doorstop revealed to be meteorite worth $100K
You probably don't have many incredibly valuable artifacts laying around your house, but if you did you nearly certainly wouldn't be using them as doorstops, ri...
Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded
Smith first made the groundbreaking discovery of how "bacteriophages" - viruses that infect bacteria - work. Strickland's winning research has been used to de...
Indian astronaut may travel to ISS on board Russia`s Soyuz in 2022
The US space agency said that ruling out defects "does not necessarily mean the hole was created intentionally or with mal-intent". The hole has since been fi...
Lockheed Martin's Lunar Lander Seats 4 Astronauts
From there, they could stay on the lunar surface for two weeks then go back to the Gateway with no need for refueling. Lockheed presented the lunar lander con...
Steel tariffs won't impact LNG Canada: Trudeau
PetroChina via subsidiary PetroChina Canada Ltd and Mitsubishi via subsidiary Diamond LNG Canada Ltd own 15% each in the project. He added that the LNG Canada...
Tropical Storm Rosa expected to drench Southwest
Tropical Storm Rosa soaked northwestern Mexico with heavy rains as it neared the Baja California Peninsula late Monday, reportedly claiming at least one victi...
The Goblin dwarf planet may lead to Planet Nine discovery
Goblin's orbit is extremely elongated - so stretched out, in fact, that it takes 40,000 years for it to circle the sun. Because in 99% of positions on its orbit...
Found at Edge of Solar System: 'The Goblin'
It is, according to a release by the researchers from the Carnegie Institution for Science, an extremely distant body that is 80 AU-Astronomical Units where 1...
Chemistry Nobel awarded for groundbreaking research on proteins
The scientists used evolutionary techniques in the laboratory to create powerful biological enzymes, molecules that speed up chemical reactions, and other impor...
Man linked to Swedish Academy scandal gets jail for rape
The academy said Mourou and Strickland "paved the way toward the shortest and most intense laser pulses ever created by mankind". "Hopefully in time it'...
Nobel Prize for Medicine Goes to Cancer Immune Therapy Pioneers
These drugs lift restrictions the immune system and allow immune cells to attack and destroy cancer cells. Antibodies against PD-1 have been approved by th...
Massive LNG project in northern BC reportedly given the go-ahead
The Pacific Northwest LNG export facility, a joint venture with Progress Energy, is expected to cost between C$9 billion and C$11 billion, subject to the final ...
$20 Per Kg : The Price To Order Soil From Mars
Interestingly, the lab also sells moon and asteroid dirt! It would be impossible to send enough food to last a colony years on the surface of Mars so the ...
Nobel Prize in Physics jointly awarded to trio of laser physics inventors
Commenting on today's announcement, Jim Al-Khalili, the president of the British Science Association, said: "It is quite shocking to know that she is only the t...
Hurricane Rosa weakens rapidly off Mexico
Rosa still had maximum sustained winds of 120km/h this morning and it was centred about 515km southwest of Punta Eugenia in Mexico. Sergio had winds of 50 mph...
Photos from Japanese space rovers show asteroid surface
Rovers Minerva-II1A and II1-B were released from the Hayabusa 2 "mothership" after a three-and-a-half-year journey and began hopping their way across the Ryu...
Japanese rovers send back first video from asteroid 280 million km away
They show slightly tilted close-ups of the rocky surface from different locations. The rovers, which are referred to as Rover-1A and Rover-1B, have been photo...
Beluga Whale Spotted Frolicking In The Thames
Marine mammal experts at the Museum have said that it not possible to tell if the animal is definitely a beluga whale without clearer images, but they will ke...
Carolinas flooding remains hazard in Florence aftermath
County officials have recommended that nearly 8,000 people leave their homes - more than 10 percent of the population. Put it in the Lord's hands. Officials exp...
Tropical Storm Rosa to become major Hurricane soon
The good news with this system is that most of the rain associated with it is located east of its center, mainly keeping most of the rain offshore and away ...
Hundreds of thousands without power in Ottawa after tornado hits
Environment Canada said that at nearly the same time a second, slightly less powerful, twister touched down in the south Ottawa neighbourhood of Arlington W...
Fears over 'very lost' beluga whale in River Thames
Beluga whales are usually found in the Arctic Ocean, with males measuring as long as 5.5 metres and can also weigh up to 1,600kg. Mr Groves said it was not th...
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