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Donald Trump embarrassed by blunder during live call with female astronauts

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New Detail On Exoplanets Is Discovered, A Recent Study Reports

Doyle said that these are very similar - referring to the rocks they analyzed when compared to rocks from Earth and Mars . Given that Earth harbours an ...

NASA unveils new spacesuits for upcoming Moon mission

Boeing is building the core stages of the rockets that will fly on the first two Artemis missions . One of the spacesuits , called Exploration Extravehicu...

Climate march moves through Edmonton ahead of Greta Thunberg's speech

Do you support the rally? A group of oil and gas supporters in a convoy of trucks left Red Deer, Alta.in the morning and is planning a counter-rally during th...

System in the Gulf could become Tropical Storm Nestor

A tropical cyclone is a generic name for what we call tropical storms and hurricanes and other parts of the world call typhoons and cyclones. The storm could ...

California Fault Capable of 8.0 Earthquake Begins Moving For First Time

The researchers noted that while major earthquakes are commonly thought to be caused by the rupture of a single long fault, seismologists have since been re...

Tropical development possible in the Gulf of Mexico ahead of the weekend

The NHC is giving it a 90% chance of turning into a tropic storm within the next 48 hours-if so, it will be named Nestor. Along the Florida coast from east ...

Blue light from phones and TVs may speed up aging in humans

As well, many phones, tablets, and laptops now have blue filter features that strip away the blue light. The other groups of flies were either exposed to specif...

Star Trek-like: Virgin Galactic unveils commercial space suits

The collection includes the spacesuit , a training suit, footwear and even a limited edition jacket. "I love the way the spacewear looks, and I love the wa...

1st all-woman spacewalk set to take place this week

The balky charger is 19 years old; the one that failed in the spring was nearly as old. The astronauts will use a robotic arm to assist them. Research conduct...

Here's NOAA's 2019-2020 winter weather forecast

However, that's not as predictable as far out as El Niño/La Niña - only a couple of weeks in advance. "It's something to keep an eye out on and see how the wi...

ISRO releases 1st illuminated image of moon's surface taken by Chandrayaan 2

Chandrayaan-2 on Thursday beamed back the first illuminated image of the lunar surface acquired by Imaging Infrared Spectrometer (IIRS) payload. The image con...

Chinese photographer named Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Combining humour and horror, the image captures an unforgettable and unique moment between a Tibetan fox and a marmot, the thread of energy between their raised...

Veteran female astronauts to become first all-women spacewalk team

NASA planned the first all-female spacewalk in March, but had to call it off because of a shortage of medium-size suits. NASA astronauts Christina Koch and ...

Nasa unveils spacesuits to be worn by first woman on the moon

The xEMU spacesuit will be used for space walks to explore the moon's south pole and has major improvements with mobility. The insulation is created to ...

NHC: Tropical Depression or Storm Possible By Weekend

Most long range computer models keep the system weak as it interacts with a front draped across the southern U.S. Moisture from the system will interact with th...

First All-Woman Spacewalk on October 18

As she backed out dur to safety issues, her fellow colleague, Nick Hague filled in for her spot and completed the spacewalk along with Christina Koch, as per th...

Hubble Telescope zooms in on interstellar visitor: Comet 2I/Borisov

Comet 2I/Borisov , which was first spotted on August 30 by Crimean amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov, is remarkable for three reasons. That means they'll hav...

Our planet is having its second-warmest year on record in 2019

According to a report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the month of September 2019 continued a long-running trend of a warming glo...

'Groundbreaking' New Footage Provides a Mesmerizing Look at Whale Bubble-Net Feeding

That rising ring forms a column that traps fish, allowing other whales in the group to swim up from below, mouths agape, through the bubble cylinder to feast. S...

Humpback whales herd fish using spiralling columns of bubbles

The research was conducted in waters off of Southeast Alaska by: Lars Bejder, director of the UH Mānoa Marine Mammal Research Program, UH Mānoa PhD student Ma...

NASA Scientist Says They've Already Discovered Life On Mars

Gilbert Levin, a NASA engineer who worked on the Viking missions, says he's "convinced we found evidence of life of Mars in the 1970s". Scientists are u...

Chinese spacecraft makes first landing on 'dark side of the moon'

The landing showed China's space program had achieved the technological capability required for a tricky project, said Richard de Grijs, an astrophysics profe...

NASA unveils new spacesuits for next moon landing

The agency's engineers Dustin Gohmert and Kristine Dans showed off the new suits at NASA headquarters on Wednesday, performing crunches and squats in front of...

Leaks: NASA Found Alien Life on Mars in the 1970s

Levin actually criticized the space agency for not taking into account the RL findings, even if the company said that they found a substance that's mimicking li...

All-female spacewalk brought forward after space station power failure

NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir have been scheduled to enterprise exterior the International Space Station (ISS) collectively as a part of a...

Second interstellar interloper is a comet resembling those in our solar system

Prompted by the earlier visit of "Oumuamua, they created a computer programme nicknamed "Interstellar Crusher" that scanned tirelessly through online data of ne...

Renewables overtake hydrocarbons in United Kingdom electricity generation

Renewables accounted for less than 10 per cent of the country's total electricity generation at the turn of the decade, according to Carbon Brief . Earlier ...

Genetic testing helps with early breast cancer detection

The city of Steamboat Springs is shining pink in October to raise awareness of breast cancer . Speaking on the Premier Pink October campaign to create awar...

111-foot asteroid screeching towards Earth at over 22,000 miles per hour

The work implies a distant asteroid collision produced sufficient dust to trigger an ice age on Earth, approximately 470 million years ago. This makes it about ...