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One 'Oddball' Among 12 Newfound Moons Discovered Orbiting Jupiter

Because of how many observations it takes to determine an object in space is actually in orbit around Jupiter, it took about a year to confirm that these were, ...

Jupiter has a dozen new moons, including one 'oddball'

University of Hawaii's Dave Tholen and Northern Arizona University's Chad Trujillo are also part of the planet search team. Researchers in the U.S. stumbled u...

Severe Thunderstorm Watch In Effect

The risk of severe thunderstorms is associated with a cold front moving from west to east over northeastern Ontario today. The agency is advising the public t...

Martian ‘spiders’ take over the planet’s South Pole, discovers NASA

When season changes and sunlight returns, the surface heats up and releases gas trapped beneath it. The spiders are not actually eight-legged arachnids, thoug...

Sea turtle found dead with beach chair string around neck

Chairs that wash out to sea can fatally entangle turtles, and even chairs that remain on the sand overnight can become major obstacles to nesting turtles and h...

South Africa launches powerful new telescope

Africa's most advanced telescope Meerkat was launched in Carnavon, Northern Cape Province on Friday, allowing scientists to better explore the universe. The R4....

Seven endangered black rhinos die in relocation bid 'disaster'

In Kenya, where about 80 percent of the world's wild black rhinos live, conservationists planned to move the rhinos to the Tsavo sanctuary as part of a long-ter...

Huge iceberg drifts close to a village on Greenland's coast

Kenneth Elkjaer, a journalist with Greenland public broadcaster KNR, said Sunday the iceberg is about 500 - 600 meters (about one-third of a mile) offshore and ...

At Cape Canaveral dismantled historic launch tower pad LC-17

The THEMIS spacecraft atop a Delta II rocekt stands on Launch Complex 17B before launch. Gen. Wayne Monteith, commander of the 45th Space Wing, before pushing a...

NASA sees 'spiders' crawling across Mars landscape

Showcased on the agency's website under the "Image of the Day" category (where all the best snapshots are displayed), the new MRO photo reveals unusual "spiders...

NASA's Juno spots volcano on Jupiter's moon Io

NASA has now apparently found the indication of another volcano in the South pole of Jupiter's moon Io by using data collected from Juno spacecraft. Now, sci...

Astronomers stunned by rare DOUBLE asteroid — NASA asteroid WARNING

The reflectivity differences also appear in the Arecibo images and hint that the two objects may have different densities, compositions near their surfaces, or ...

Alien neutrino found on Earth for the first time ever

Measuring cosmic neutrinos against those created closer to home is, she told BBC News, "like trying to count fireflies in the middle of a firework display". S...

People with disabilities concerned about Seattle's ban on plastic straws

Caffeine fiends are ready for the change. Cities and companies are banning plastic straws across the United States and overseas, but disability rights advoc...

SpaceX And Boeing Won’t Make Manned Flights To The ISS In 2019

This only means that if both Boeing and SpaceX don't manage to keep up with their milestones, there is not much that can be done by NASA to ensure that its as...

Whalers harpoon and kill endangered blue whale - the first in 50 years

An Icelandic anti-whaling group has accused company Hvalur hf of slaughtering an endangered blue whale in the fjord of Hvalfjordur, which sparked anger among ...

Astronomers Spot Rare Binary Asteroid: 2017 YE5 | Astronomy

Astronomers used three different radar telescopes , which bounce beams of radio waves off asteroids, to understand the shape of 2017 YE5 . At the time, scient...

Virginia teen hospitalized after giant hogweed burns

The Giant Hogweed plant cannot only pose a threat to your skin, but it can also impact the environment. Never use a weed wacker on a giant hogweed because...

Audubon Zoo closed Saturday after jaguar escapes habitat and kills 6 animals

The news release from the Audubon Zoo called Saturday a "difficult day in the Audubon family" and said that the deaths of the animals were a "tragic loss". Form...

Ireland becomes first country in the world to divest from fossil fuels

In an amendment, the bill describes " fossil fuel undertakings" as those "whose business is engaged, for the time being, in the exploration for or extraction o...

Scientists Discover Origin of a Black Hole Ghost Particle

Astronomers and physicists around the world, including in Hawaiʻi, have begun to unravel a longstanding cosmic mystery. "We have found the first source of co...

8 endangered black rhinos die after relocation in Kenya

The relocation of endangered animals, known as translocation, involves putting them to sleep for the journey and then reviving them. The black rhinos were mov...

Israel To Launch Moon Mission From Florida In December

Project managers said that the SpaceIL, an unmanned craft built by Israeli engineers, is slated to take off later this year and land on the moon on February 13...

Pakistan to experience its second solar eclipse of the year

Partial solar Eclipses are witnessed more often and happens frequently. Eyewear is not required to look at lunar eclipse . The partial solar eclipse on ...

SpaceIL to launch unmanned Moon probe in December

The first Israeli lunar spacecraft is to be launched in December from Cape Canaveral, Fla. The other three nations are the United States, Russia , and China ....

Hurricane Chris strengthens to Category 2, moves northeast

East Coast. According to weather forecasters, Hurricane Chris is expected to gain strength throughout Wednesday before weakening Thursday as it heads out ...

Partisan Divide Deepens Over Trump’s Supreme Court Pick

Kavanaugh incurred the debt by buying Nationals season tickets and postseason tickets for himself and his friends, White House spokesman Raj Shah told The ...

Russia's Robotic Cargo Spacecraft Smashes Record for Trip to International Space Station

Russian cargo resupply trips to the International Space Station have become such a regular, predictable thing that even NASA rarely bothers to make a big de...

Double-decker dinosaur fossil find makes scientists rethink evolution of Jurassic giants

The animal used a novel strategy to become super-sized, involving very fast growth spurts and efficient bird-like lungs, say palaeontologists. She and her tea...

Daylight meteor spotted streaking across central US

The American Meteor Society says that it has amassed almost 600 reports from witnesses spanning many states, but the object is believed to have been positioned ...