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Canada Day to be a sizzler across southern Ontario

A heat warning issued by Environment Canada remains in effect for the entire region. The national forecaster says temperatures could reach the mid-30s with hu...

Speeding Interstellar Object 'Oumuamua is a Comet, Not an Asteroid

The interstellar object has been the subject of intense inspection since its discovery in October 2017. The discovery appears in the journal Nature . However, ...

Young will pick up climate change bill

Britain must set out policies and incentives to cut more greenhouse gas emission or the taxpayer will face higher costs to meet legally-binding targets for redu...

Japan space explorer arrives at asteroid - 170 million miles from Earth

You can see the original blog post with asteroid imaginings here. "But this is a very big challenge". It's also thought they may contain chemical compound...

Supreme Court's Roberts is the new man at the 'center'

Ninety percent of Democrats said the vacancy would make them more likely to vote for a Democratic Senate candidate in the November 6 election, compared with 8...

Trump to move quickly on Supreme Court nominee

Speaking earlier in the day in Wisconsin, Trump said: "We're going to pick ourselves one great United States Supreme Court justice to take the place of a great ...

India's quest for trillion-dollar nuclear fuel on moon

There is still enough to meet the current energy demands of the world for at least two, and possibly five, centuries, Kalkinski said. However, the chairman of I...

Trump narrows list of potential Supreme Court nominees

As it turns out, the emphasis on the Supreme Court may have been more useful in providing cover for Trump's evangelical supporters than for Trump himself - ...

Trump says he'll announce Supreme Court nominee on July 9

While Republicans control the Senate 51-49, Democrats hope to block the pick. It has been reported that Trump has been working off of a list of 25 names mad...

Right evidence for alien life found on Saturn small moon Enceladus

A dramatic plume sprays water ice and vapor from the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus . Cassini previously flew near to Enceladus in 2005 and ...

United Kingdom outlines plan to nurture domestic links from Heathrow

Around 70% of passengers on those flights use Heathrow as a hub to Europe and the rest of the world. That is the message from Leeds North East MP Fabian Hamil...

AI robot crew member CIMON to join astronauts on space station

CIMON will work with three times Gerst on three tasks during the mission, according to Airbus , where the robot will give verbal instructions. CIMON will help...

The Space Between Stars Is Full of Greasy, Possibly Toxic Carbon

Some of it is aliphatic carbons that leak from stars, and a new study from University of New South Wales (UNSW) and Ege University researchers has found the...

More delay, cost for NASA's next-generation space telescope

Following the agency's review of the mission's remaining tasks and recent integration and test challenges, NASA has established March 30, 2021, as the new launc...

Trump’s Anthony Kennedy Strategy Was Calculated, With None of His Trademark Chaos

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said today Republicans will support anyone from the president's list of 25 names. Both senators also opposed the nominati...

Scientists say humans are alone in the universe

To put it in numbers, the results showed that there was a 53 to 99.6 percent chance that humanity is the only intelligent civilization in the galaxy and a 39 to...

UNESCO removes Belize reef from endangered World Heritage list

Figures from Queensland's Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy show 36,600 hectares in Great Barrier Reef water catchments has been approved for ...

NASA orbiter snaps gorgeous ‘blue’ dune on the Red Planet

That's surely odd given the planet's reputation for wearing all-red. The big blue one, however, "appearing like turquoise blue in enhanced colour, is made of ...

Five people killed in Toronto; police chief condemns ‘gang subculture’

Police say the victim was with three other people in a vehicle when an SUV pulled up alongside and a shot was sacked, killing Nyarko as she sat in the backseat....

Canada crude outage to tighten supplies, reduce oil flow to Cushing

Suncor, Canada's largest integrated oil producer, fell 3.5 per cent on Monday to $51.47 on the Toronto Stock Exchange, while Imperial shares fell 1.6 per cent t...

Antarctica’s Ice Sheets Found Coldest Than Ever Thought

Now, after re-examining weather data for this region, the same researchers have found that temperatures at several sites had actually dipped lower than previous...

The Strawberry Moon, a Smaller and Less Bright Full Moon

The moon's orbit around the Earth is not in a ideal circle, so some months a full moon is closer to our planet than it is in other months. Eastern, when the sun...

Queen guitarist Brian May makes stereo image of Ryugu asteroid

The Japan Space Exploration Agency said Wednesday the unmanned Hayabusa2 spacecraft had arrived at an asteroid about 280 million kilometers (170 million mil...

Heavy thunderstorms then get ready for extreme heat, warns Environment Canada

Total local rainfall amounts could be in the 30 to 50 mm range, with higher amounts possible under the heaviest storms. The weather agency says that showers a...

NASA has an unusual surface of Jupiter

Juno has sent back a slew of images showing Jupiter from various points, all of them making one thing very clear: the planet's clouds are a sight to behold. The...

Kinder Morgan (KMI) Position Cut by Baird Financial Group Inc

However, as 52 Week Range has little to no connection whatsoever with current news or forces affecting companies today, very few investors rely heavily on the m...

Longest Total Lunar Eclipse of the 21st Century Happens in July

The Super Blue Blood moon was spotted across Asia, North America, Australia, New Zealand, most of central and eastern Europe, and some parts of South America ...

This week's night sky: Saturn shining with full moon

The first full moon of summer, which is traditionally called a Strawberry Moon, will likely have a pink cast and appear unusually large, according to Washington...

International Space Station launches RemoveDebris, first mission to harpoon space junk

He continued, " RemoveDEBRIS is signifying some very thrilling active junk removal technologies that can have a vast influence on how we handle space junk movi...

Almost half of Iowa crude oil spill contained, BNSF says

Tanker cars from a freight train carrying crude oil are shown after a derailment along the Rock River south of Doon, Iowa, U.S.in this June 22, 2018 handout sti...