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FYI: A Lunar Eclipse Is Happening Tonight

In India, there are several myths and superstitions related to the both lunar and solar eclipses . In Penumbral Lunar eclipse , the moon is covered by E...

Court orders temporary shutdown of Dakota Access Pipeline

The Standing Rock tribe presses litigation against the pipeline even after it began carrying oil from North Dakota across South Dakota and Iowa and to a shippin...

NASA eyes August for SpaceX ship liftoff with Japanese astronaut aboard

It'll be the first time astronauts will take off from the U.S. since NASA's space shuttle program ended in 2011, when they started hitching rides on Russian Soy...

Satellite-carrying rocket ‘lost’ after New Zealand launch

On July 4 at 5:19 p.m. EDT, Rocket Lab launched its two-stage Electron rocket from its site in New Zealand. To check it out live, tune in directly via Rock...

Lunar Eclipse July 2020: All About It

The third lunar eclipse of the year 2020 will be a penumbral one like the other three lunar eclipses of the year. However, people in a lot of North Amer...

Tropical depression 5 accelerates away from Bermuda, may become next tropical storm

That disturbance was a low within a larger area of low pressure off the northern Gulf Coast as of Sunday afternoon. We're also keeping an eye on the tropics ...

Your dog could be older than you think

The new research, published Thursday in the journal Cell Systems , showed a dogs develop more quickly when they're young and more slowly when they're old. ...

A Jupiter-like planet was spotted near a distant star

TOI-849 is a G-dwarf star located 741 light-years away in the constellation of Sculptor. There are two theories as to why the planet's core has been exposed...

Sony Introduces PlayStation Indies Initiative

Which is great news for PS4 fans hoping to reserve their PS5 unit well in advance of the next-gen console's launch. This will mean more support and attention ...

Miss. state flag officially retired after 126 years

I do think that the people, if we left it up to the people, the people would've voted to take it down. "Now, more than ever, we must lean on that faith, put our...

Aboriginal artefacts found off West Australia coast, dating back thousands of years

An global team of archaeologists from Flinders University , The University of Western Australia , James Cook University , ARA - Airborne Research Australia ...

Time Change SpaceX Launch Today of GPS III Satellite

Space Force . Falcon 9 took off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral 4:10 pm ET and hit sonic speeds after a minute or so following lift off. According...

Launch of NASA Mars rover delayed again

According to NASA, this delay in the launch of the rover has occurred due to an unforeseen problem that arose in the Perseverance's rocket. If NASA misses t...

This Weekend's Challenging Penumbral Lunar Eclipse Rounds Out the Summer Season

This saros will produce its first total lunar eclipse on April 16, 2489, and its final faint penumbral eclipse occurs on February 17, 2994. The moon will ...

Heat warning for London region will continue into next week

The storms are forecast to move through the Arnprior and western Ottawa areas between 4:30 p.m. and 6 p.m., as well as portions of northern Lanark County. Risks...

Dem climate plan would end greenhouse gas emissions by 2050

But it's a plan that is setting out what the Democratic agenda would look like should Democrats win the Senate and the White House in November. The Democratic...

South Pole Warming Three Times Faster Than Rest Of World, Study Finds

Clem and his group analyzed climate station information at the South Pole, as nicely as local weather types to look at the warming in the Antarctic inside. But ...

Launch of NASA Mars rover delayed again, 2 weeks left to fly

The $two.one billion rover is comparable to NASA's Curiosity rover but includes many updates, which includes the addition of a little helicopter , and it w...

Meteor shower you can watch tonight

And for those of us stuck inside because of the coronavirus pandemic, May's celestial events are the ideal excuse to reconnect with nature. What are the Et...

Saharan dust plume: Forecast models show it moving into the U.S. today

The Sahara dust storm arrived in parts of the Caribbean and Mexico earlier this week, and is now traveling through the United States. Kenneth Mendez, the CEO ...

This NASA-designed fragrance smells exactly like outer space

American startup Eau de Space gathered more than 40 thousand dollars for the production of perfume that smells like space. Now, the formula is being used for ...

Eclipse of the moon July 4, will be visible throughout U.S.

Independence Day fireworks may be sporadic in 2020 thanks to the coronavirus . During the lunar eclipse , Earth moves in between the sun and the moon and o...

NASA Spots Fireballs From Lyrid Meteor Shower

You can point the camera wherever you want since shooting stars can appear anywhere in the night sky, though the origin of the meteor shower is the constellat...

First Warning Forecast: Another hot and humid day with pop-up storms

The rain will be far from a guarantee, but any storm that does develop may be strong. That same Marginal Risk for Nashville remains for much of Wednesday . T...

Newly Discovered Nearby Super-Earths Could Potentially Host Life

Astronomers have discovered two super-Earth around the star Gilese 887, which is approximately 11 light years from our planet. The results were published in the...

A decade in an hour: Watch NASA’s stunning solar time-lapse

The thorough capturing of the Sun's photos, observing each and every change in the Sun can be assessed from the fact that the SDO clicked a photo every 0.75 sec...

Biggest and brightest 'supermoon' of the year to rise tonight

It simply means the April full moon and it will probably still be silver or yellow-tinged in the sky. If the moon is within 10% of its closest distance to the...

NASA Releases Stunning 10-Year Time-Lapse Of The Sun

This information has enabled countless new discoveries about the workings of our closest star and how it influences the solar system ", NASA said in a release....

United Kingdom report: Use coronavirus recovery funds to phase out ICEs sooner

The full CCC video presentation of its 2020 Progress Report may be found online in the form of a Zoom meeting replay , when loads of men sat in their houses. T...

Space-time ripples flip our understanding of black holes & neutron stars upside down

Both found a fusion of objects with masses between 23 and 2.6 times greater than that of the Sun. The Advanced Virgo detector at the European Gravitational Ob...

Mexico: 6 dead in powerful quake

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center sent an all-clear in the afternoon, saying the initial tsunami threat has now passed. The U.S. Geological Survey said the q...

Nasa launch competition to design a toilet for use on the Moon

The toilet has a few special requirements not needed by traditional loo designers - for example it has to ensure its users aren't exposed to vacuum during use. ...

This Is How Astronomers Will Find New Planets in the Solar System

UNIVERSITY of Southern Queensland researchers were part of an global team of astronomer who have detected a system of "super-Earth" planets orbiting a nearby r...

Incredible 10-Year Time Lapse of Sun From NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory

The video shows the Sun moving between its maximum and minimum phases . The photos featured in the video were captured using the SDO's Atmospheric Imaging Asse...

Atlantic hurricane season already has fourth tropical storm of 2020

Tropical Storm Dolly emerged on Tuesday afternoon, according to the National Hurricane Center . "The wind field has shrunk so that Dolly is no longer a su...