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The International Space Station has 2 seats left for this trip

Friday night, in super windy conditions at Cape Canaveral, SpaceX launched the 20th and final delivery using its Dragon capsule under that original contract. ...

Vancouverites share snaps of last night's supermoon

This is because the Moon's orbit is not a ideal circle and is actually slightly oval. THAT FULL MOON in the sky Monday night was March's Full Worm Moon - ...

Plastic smells like food to sea turtles, scientists say

In lab tests, scientists enticed young loggerhead sea turtles with the smell of biofouled plastic both with and without different meal offerings, including fis...

Poachers kill rare white giraffe in Kenya

The white giraffe is one of the world's rarest mammals. There is only one white giraffe left in the world now. According to conservation group Ishaqbini...

Mars Rover 2020 Name 'Perseverance,' NASA's New Red Planet Robot

When you remember that, all the names of Mars rovers we had in the past are attributes that we person. But if rovers are to be the qualities of us as a race, we...

Health Officials Confirm First Case of Coronavirus in Australia

Chinese President Xi Jinping chaired a meeting with top officials of the ruling Communist Party on the prevention and control of the Wuhan coronavirus outbr...

Albuquerque couple aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship will head to quarantine

The 2,400 passengers, who have been largely confined to their staterooms since Thursday, were to begin disembarking on Monday for transport to quarantine statio...

Lenten Moon will shine bright tonight

According to the Farmer's Almanac , due to its supermoon status, this year's Worm Moon has been named the Super Worm Moon . The moon is such a distant sc...

Virus-hit United States cruise ship to dock in Oakland: Operator

The first passengers were taken ashore from a coronavirus-hit cruise ship after it docked Monday at California's port of Oakland, in what officials called an ...

Lancashire woman amongst Britons stuck on cruise ship in California

Speaking in Ottawa on Monday, Dr. Tam said that cruise ships have passengers from all over the word who may be arriving from areas with known or unknown spread ...

Meet Perseverance, NASA’s newly renamed Mars 2020 rover

NASA asks the public for the names of its travelers, which it has been using on Mars missions for more than 20 years. Mather's proposal delighted the guys f...

EU Commission adopts law proposal for climate neutrality by 2050

To drive ambition, Brussels plans to revise goals every five years to guarantee the trajectory can deliver net zero GHG emissions by 2050. EU Green Deal chi...

CRISPR Gene Editing Used to Restore Eyesight

The Casey Eye Institute at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon, recently made medical history after performing the first in vivo, CRISPR gene...

NASA announced the approach of a potentially hazardous asteroid to Earth

For its part, the National Strategy for the Preparation of Near-Earth Objects has confirmed that " Objects near and greater than one kilometer can cause damage ...

EPA list of products to fight coronavirus

The products have qualified for use against COVID-19 through the agency's Emerging Viral Pathogen program, which allows product manufacturers to provide the EP...

SpaceX launches research facilities to Int'l Space Station

SpaceX uses special systems created to carry astronauts in its rockets that it has prepared for crewed missions. "What an fantastic live view all the way to tou...

SpaceX to send three astronauts to the International Space Station by 2021

Co-founded by NASA's former ISS program manager, the company is looking to manufacture the first commercial space station. Now scheduled to launch during ...

SpaceX deal with Texas company heralds possible tourist trips to space station

Axiom Space, a company with ambitions to develop a private space station, announced March 5 that it has signed a contract with SpaceX for a commercial Cre...

SpaceX launches Falcon Heavy rocket from Florida, its ‘most difficult’ ever

Minutes after launch, the Falcon Heavy's two side boosters separated and flew themselves to two landing pads set up at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, not far...

See The Super Worm Moon This Weekend

March's full moon this year can be more than only a Worm Moon; it's going to additionally be considered a supermoon . The moon officially reaches its peak...

NASA joins final core section of its first Space Launch System rocket

NASA on Monday earmarked nearly $3 billion to Lockheed Martin to build three Orion capsules, to allow USA astronauts to return to the moon by 2024. Morri...

Massive asteroid will pass Earth next month

Most of the asteroids, including Ceres, are situated in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but some have orbits that cross Earth's. Earth has been th...

1.3-Mile-Wide Asteroid Will Zip by Earth in April

In any case, 2020, BR10 could not hope to compare to the enormous 3,250-foot asteroid that zoomed past Earth on February 15. Although this isn't the biggest...

Half of world's sandy beaches face extinction

Up to 2100 are in North Australia - depending on the scenario - 12 324 Miles to 15 439 Kilometers of sandy beach coast threatened by erosion. A examine publis...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover takes 1.8 billion pixel panorama of Mars

The rover's Mast Camera, or Mastcam, used its telephoto lens to produce the panorama; meanwhile, it relied on its medium-angle lens to produce a lower-resolutio...

Thermo Fisher Scientific : Diagnostic Firms Set A Deal to Combine

Following the news of the acquisition, Qiagen's stock price has seen a significant rise of 18%, reaching €37.5, keeping on track for the best daily gain of th...

Pope tests negative for coronavirus, Italy report says

Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni did not confirm or deny the report, but repeated that Pope Francis had been diagnosed with a cold. Pope Francis has describ...

Want To Be An Astronaut? NASA Is Now Taking Applications

From that pool, NASA picked 11 new astronauts who recently completed more than two years of training.The application is open to the public, though you must be...

Earth Snags A 'Mini-Moon' As Asteroid Is Ensnared In Orbit

The revelation was made by Kacper Wierzchos and Theodore Pruyne, scientist experts for the Catalina Sky Survey. Many speculated the object was a rocky aster...

After SpaceX Starship rocket implodes, Elon Musk says he'll 'buff it out'

Earlier, SpaceX creator as well as Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk hinted that much of these models will certainly be required to excellent the Starship l...

Greta Thunberg acknowledges graphic decal

As of Sunday morning, it appeared the websites and social media for X-Site Energy Services had been removed. The sticker has a logo of X-Site Energy Service...

Biggest explosion seen in universe came from black hole

Astronomers observed the explosion from both ground and space-based telescopes like NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory , the European Space Agency's XMM-New...

NY plastic bag ban takes effect, customers 'not happy'

After several failed attempts, lawmakers finally approved the ban in April 2019. But state Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Bagel Seggos s...

Storm Jorge: Flood-hit towns battle wettest February on record

The wind-chill factor will make temperatures feel close to freezing, said the Met Office. This month's third named storm is bringing rain, gales and snow, pro...

Unique Non-oxygen Breathing Animal Discovered

Scientists have discovered the first world's first animal that doesn't breathe to live - a parasitic blob named Henneguya salminicola . The alien-tadpole-looki...