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NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory Back in Action

The Chandra team switched gyroscopes and placed the balky gyroscope into reserve. NASA said the team plans to apply a series of pre-tested software patches ...

Russian Soyuz investigation by Oct 20

One of the four strap-on boosters failed to separate properly two minutes into the flight to the International Space Station and apparently struck the core rock...

Hot Planet, No Cold Ones? Climate Change Could Cause Beer Shortage

Interested in Climate Change? As a result, the cost of beer could soar. The findings suggest that total beer consumption decreases most under climate cha...

Donald Trump describes himself a true environmentalist

US President Donald Trump said he does not want to spend trillions of dollars responding to impacts of climate change, which he said was not a hoax but coul...

People Are Missing From Florida Town Hit By Hurricane Michael

MEMA Director Kurt Schwartz said in a press release: "Just as other states have responded to our requests through EMAC to bolster our disaster response and reco...

In China same-sex couple animal produced offspring

According to a study published Thursday in the journal Cell Stem Cell , a team of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) used stem cells and ...

Cut adrift by Canada, Michaelle Jean continues bid for Francophonie post

Hours before he was scheduled to board Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's plane for the summit, Legault released a written statement saying, "Africa has enormous p...

Rescuers find first body in town worst hit by hurricane Michael

Rescuers from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) used dogs, drones and Global Positioning System in the search. "Right now the focus is truly on l...

Hurricane Michael: death toll rises to 11 as rescuers search for survivors

Nearby Panama City Beach experienced similar damage along with other communities along the shore of the Gulf of Mexico. Rescue personnel search amidst debri...

Astronauts survive emergency landing after booster fails on Russian rocket

While there is another Soyuz capsule docked at the station, Hadfield said using it to send the current crew home would not be under consideration. It comes ...

Chandler Rocket Company Receives $800M Air Force Contract

The public-private partnerships will ensure "the US maintains assured access to space, with at least two domestic launch service providers and without reliance ...

Hurricane Michael weakens further as it crosses Georgia

Catastrophic", Crown said. Accuweather warned those along the path of the storm from northern Florida to southeastern Virginia should expect downed trees and ...

'Potentially catastrophic' Hurricane Michael strengthens to Category 2, targets Florida

Hurricane Michael has strengthened to a Category 2 storm with winds up to 100 miles per hour as it approaches the Florida Panhandle, the National Hurricane C...

Hurricane Michael strikes Florida, moves to Carolinas as tropical storm

But upon landfall Wednesday afternoon, just north of Mexico Beach, the storm was a Category 4 with maximum sustained winds reaching 155 miles per hour and a s...

Dramatic Footage Shows Moment Inside Soyuz Capsule When Booster Rocket Failed

Thursday's problem occurred when the first and second stages of a booster rocket, launched from the Soviet-era cosmodrome of Baikonur in the central Asian c...

Hubble in 'safe mode', but science operations suspended

That mission restored Hubble's cameras, installed new ones and crucially, left the space telescope with six new gyroscopes, three for immediate use and thre...

Astronauts safe after failed rocket launch, emergency bail-out

A Russian Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft experienced an "anomaly" during liftoff today while carrying two passengers en route to the International Space Station (...

‘Apocalyptic:’ One Florida town demolished by Michael

Michael had weakened to a Category 1, with maximum winds of 90 miles per hour as of 8:00 pm Eastern time (0000 GMT), but that still left it an extremely risky s...

Here's where you can watch Tropical Storm Michael live

A day Michael made landfall as a deadly Category 4 hurricane, 10Weather is already monitoring a new tropical disturbance in the west-central Caribbean Sea...

Soyuz crew reportedly alive after emergency landing

Russian Federation has promised to share all relevant information with the US. The Soyuz MS-10 rocket had four boosters strapped to its central core. This m...

4 reasons Hurricane Michael was so devastating

Michael was downgraded to a tropical storm as it raced across Georgia late Wednesday night. According to the National Hurricane Center , the core of Michael ...

Hurricane Michael weakens into a tropical storm over central Georgia

An unidentified man in the Florida Panhandle was killed by a fallen tree when it ripped through his home's roof, a spokeswoman for the Gadsden County Sheriff's...

Virgin to be in space 'within weeks'

Branson's Virgin Galactic is racing against Amazon creator Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin to launch the first out-of-this-world passenger flight and take paying p...

Hurricane Michael evacuation: Florida declares emergency - Scott activates national guard

The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Hurricane Michael was centered about 420 miles (675 kilometers) south of Panama City at 5 a.m. Tuesday. About 1,...

Soyuz MS-10: Russian spacecraft makes emergency landing on Earth

The rocket was launched from the Soviet-era cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan . Search and rescue crews are heading to the landing site. Russian and United ...

Hurricanes Florence And Michael Highlight Monster Storms' Devastating Differences

Preliminary reports indicate the child, who authorities believe was 11 years old, died when something fell on a home but authorities have not been able to get t...

Hubble Space Telescope in safe mode after gyro failure

In a series of tweets and a press release, the space agency revealed that one of the three gyroscopes (gyros) that is now in use failed. "So, there's been a gre...

Takeaways from the UN's Startling Climate Report

At 1.5 degrees of warming, compared with pre-industrial levels, as much as 90 per cent of the world's coral reefs will die, and virtually all would be lost if t...

United Nations Climate Report Warns Miami Basically Screwed

Climate economist William Nordhaus has been made a Nobel laureate. The events are being reported as two parts of the same story , but they reveal the contrad...

Rock used as a doorstop for decades is actually a $100,000 meteorite

Professor of Geology at the University of MI claims that for 18 years they have brought any stones, but not meteorites. After examining the rock Sirbescu dete...

'Most destructive storm to hit the Florida panhandle in decades'

A storm surge of up to 13 feet (four meters) is expected in some areas, the center said. Hurricane Michael is growing stronger , expected to make landfall ...

Hurricane Michael prompts Alabama to declare state of emergency

Described by Scott as both "monstrous" and "massive", Michael could make landfall as a Category 3 hurricane with sustained winds of at least 111 miles per h...

IPCC: Report makes case for more ambitious global climate pact

Where Has The Warning Come From? A landmark United Nations report on Monday warned that sufficiently limiting man-made global warming will "require rapi...

Star Trek: Discovery trailer shows off Spock, unveils premiere date

Commander Paul Stamets), Michelle Yeoh (Philippa Georgiou), Wilson Cruz (Dr. Hugh Culber), Mary Chieffo (L'Rell), Anson Mount (Captain Christopher Pike ) and...

Hurricane Michael a very different storm to Florence: RMS

As the storm moved north it battered Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and western Cuba with drenching rains and winds of up to 130km/h, forecasters said. Besides ...