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Scientists Find Proof Of Massive Killer Asteroid That Killed Dinosaurs

First, the impact site was a fiery hellscape. An worldwide team of scientists led by the University of Texas at Austin examined hundreds of feet of rocks th...

Dump Fukushima contaminated water into ocean, says Japan's environment minister

According to TEPCO, that proverbial tipping point will come in 2022, so naturally, the Japanese government is reviewing ideas and plans for just what to do with...

A rare full Harvest Moon expected for this coming Friday the 13th

According to the Farmer's Almanac, we haven't seen a combination like this since October 13th, 2000 and it won't happen again until August 13th, 2049. So while ...

A rare 'Micro Harvest Moon' will appear this weekend

Around every 20 years, Friday the 13th coincides with a full moon. The Harvest Moon this week is the ninth Full Moon of the year and one of the most chillin...

You can pre-load Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's PS4 beta tomorrow

Be among the first to experience the intense multiplayer action, ranging from the quick, close quarters 2v2 Gunfight mode, to traditional 6v6 multiplayer gamepl...

India still trying to contact its lost Moon lander

Space scientist Sandip Chakraborty said bringing out of the rover "Pragyan" from the lander and making it functional is crucial for the moon mission. "Vikram La...

India's moon landing suffers last-minute communications loss

Mr. Modi was at the Mission Operations Complex of ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) to watch the planned soft-landing of Vikram on the L...

Chandrayaan-2: The grand ambitions of India's second Moon mission

Now, the lander is scheduled to powered descent between 1 am to 2 am on September 7, which will then be followed by touch down between 1.30 am and 2.30 am. "It'...

Sixteen Bricks Of Cocaine Wash Up On Florida Beach After Hurricane Dorian

When the officer checked it out, he found a package "wrapped in a way that was consistent with narcotics", a Melbourne police spokeswoman said . The Melbou...

New Nintendo Direct Scheduled For Tomorrow

Though the product was delisted quickly, an Overwatch case got people talking. The coming Nintendo Direct will focus on games that will be arriving throughout...

Zapper Trap, Floating Island, And More

The Zapper Trap is officially coming soon to Fortnite , according to today's in-game News message. Not listening to the community is awful, and as such, adve...

Sobering scenes showing Hurricane Dorian’s toll in the Bahamas emerge

Hurricane Dorian came to a catastrophic daylong halt over the northwest Bahamas , flooding the islands of Abaco and Grand Bahama with walls of water that lapp...

Hurricane Dorian: The destruction of the Abaco Islands

Only water could be seen in the video, with no hint that there's a runway under the floodwater. Five people were killed on Abaco Island, the Royal Bahamas polic...

SpaceX Satellite In Near Collision With European Space Agency's Aeolus

A European Space Agency's satellite was on a collision course with the SpaceX Starlink constellation. Several of SpaceX's satellites failed to reach their int...

Chandrayaan-2: Lander Vikram separates from orbiter; to land on September 7

The Vikram Lander will revolve around 104 km of Apogee and 128 km of Perigee in the moon for the next about 31 hours. Vikram, the lander and Pragyan , the ...

Dorian now a category 2 hurricane, top winds at 105 miles per hour

President Donald Trump canceled his trip to Poland and said he will send Vice President Mike Pence in his place this weekend so that he can stay in Washin...

Dorian Pounds Bahamas as Hurricane Warnings are Issued for Florida Coast

To facilitate the evacuations, McMaster has ordered lane reversals on several major highways including I-26 from Charleston to Columbia and US 278 in Hilton Hea...

Chargers GM tables contract talks with Gordon

Saturday's deadline to finalize 53-man rosters has come and gone, and so has the Los Angeles Chargers' patience with Melvin Gordon . Gordon has been holdin...

Research Finds Genetic Links to Human Sexual Conduct, No Gay Gene

Geneticist and LGBT activist Fahad Ali of the University of Sydney said the study confirmed what we already knew: that genetic contribution to same-sex attrac...

'War on nature must end,' says activist Greta Thunberg in NY

Thunberg was offered a ride on the Malizia II , a racing yacht owned by Pierre Casiraghi, the grandson of the late Prince of Monaco and Hollywood actress Grace...

Fourth lunar bound orbit maneuver for Chandrayaan-2 performed successfully: ISRO

To nudge the lunar craft to de-orbit and move directly towards the moon's surface, two short-duration manoeuvres will be made on coming Tuesday morning and Wedn...

Engineers attach NASA Mars Helicopter to Mars 2020 Rover

Students at nationwide public, private and home schools can enter an essay contest to explain why their proposed name should be picked. Colin Paynter, managin...

U.S. proposing easing rules on climate-changing oil emissions

According to The Wall Street Journal , the U.S. oil and gas industry's methane emissions are equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions from more than 69...

As Dorian nears Florida, Trump says Mar-a-Lago 'can handle itself'

Hurricane Dorian approaches the coast of Florida, U.S.in this August 30, 2019 NASA handout satellite image. The storm is expected to be near or over the no...

Dorian upgraded to Category 4 storm as 130mph winds measured in Atlantic

Dorian began on Friday over the Atlantic as a Category 2 hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson Wind Scale but strengthened to a Category 3 with sustaine...

Brazil bans legal land-clearing fires in wake of Amazon wildfires

Mr. Macron had questioned Mr. Bolsonaro's trustworthiness and commitment to environmental safeguards in a sharply personal dispute between the two leaders. Pr...

Hurricane heads for Florida after brushing Caribbean islands

Hurricane Dorian posed an increasing menace to Florida as it pushed over open waters Thursday after leaving limited damage in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Island...

African forest fires in spotlight after Amazon outcry

Macron has called Bolsonaro a liar, and suggested Brazilian women were likely ashamed of having him as their leader. Indigenous people from the Mura tribe sho...

SpaceX Starhopper Launches - Starhopper test flight launch!

The larger prototypes , which should be closer to what will actually launch, will test more Raptor engines working together and aim to fly to higher altitude...

This Is Exactly What Will Happen If An Asteroid Hits Earth

Educational YouTube channel Second Thought explained in a video released on Friday: "Many scientists are keeping a close eye on the asteroid Apophis, which in...

ISRO’s Chandrayaan-2 successfully goes through third lunar orbit manoeuvre

The maneuver's duration was a little over 1738 seconds, stated the agency. "All spacecraft parameters are normal". Chandrayaan-2, launched on July 22 by India...

Trump administration pushes rollback on climate-changing oil emissions

The Obama administration's push to impose the first limits on methane emissions from the oil and gas industry in 2016 came shortly after the EPA found emissio...

Tropical Storm Dorian heads toward Windward islands

Tropical Storm Dorian comes as parts of Puerto Rico still are recovering from Hurricane Maria two years ago. Currently, the weather system is approachi...

South America to hold Amazon summit, says Brazil's president

In another development, Mr Bolsonaro responded to a joke on Facebook mocking the age of Mr Macron's wife Brigitte who, at 65, is 25 years his senior. French...

NASA administrator declares Pluto to be a planet once again

Nonetheless, Pluto fell in need of the third requirement, that the object has to have cleared its "orbital neighborhood" of other objects. In remarks to rep...