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Hurricane Michael as seen from the International Space Station

The Miami-based National Hurricane Center said the storm, which local forecasters are calling an "unprecedented" weather event for the area, is expected to sl...

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A week ago, technical difficulties forced engineers to put the Hubble Space Telescope's science mission on hold . "Analysis of available data indicates the tra...

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This move would spell certain disaster as the United States is the world's second-largest greenhouse gas emitter, behind China. Today, the Intergovernmental ...

Soyuz demonstrates finesse in flight and failure

United States astronaut Nick Hague, right, and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin, crew members of the mission to the International Space Station wave as the...

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All the stores, all the restaurants, everything. The storm tore entire neighbourhoods apart, reducing homes and businesses to piles of wood and siding, damagi...

Mushikiwabo poised to win Francophonie seat

Canada has sent a signal that Rwanda's Foreign Affairs Minister Louise Mushikiwabo could win the post of the Secretary General of the International Organisati...

Hurricane Michael toll expected to rise

Fast-moving Michael, a Category 4 storm on the five-step Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale when it came ashore, was about 35 km northwest of Raleigh, North Car...

Greenpeace: Coke, PepsiCo, and Nestlé 'worst plastic polluters

After analysing the waste and carrying out an auditexternal link , the organisations produced a top ten ranking of multinational firms that they say contribute...

Looters Go Through Wreckage of Family Dollar Store After Hurricane Michael

The NHC said: "Michael should continue to weaken for the next 12h or so as the centre moves through SC and into North Carolina". The devastation inflicted by ...

Before and After Satellite Images Show Hurricane Michael's Devastation in Florida

The storm, a Category 4 on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale, tore apart entire neighbourhoods in the Panhandle. Although weaker as it pushed over the southe...

Three companies to develop rockets for national security launches

The Atlas uses RD-180 engines made in Russian Federation. "ORCRP009161-topic.html" class="local_link" >Lockheed Martin, received a $967 million award for its ...

Here's Stephen Hawking's last scientific paper and all about it

The study was groundbreaking revealing that even Hawking's original argument was flawed in some way and most importantly that no-hair black hole theories were u...

Healthy mice born to 2 mothers

While some reptiles, amphibians, and fish can reproduce with one parent of the same sex, Dr Zhou said it's "challenging" for mammals to do the same - even with ...

Officials announce five Michael-related fatalities in Virginia

In Iredell County, one person was killed from Michael on Thursday afternoon when a tree fell on a Ford sedan. As of 8:30 p.m. on Thursday night, more than 604...

Scientific 'time travel' illusion tricks your brain into seeing things

By now, most of us are familiar with the "Invisible Gorilla" experiment , which shows how selective our attention can be, but now a research team from Caltech...

'Potentially catastrophic' Hurricane Michael strengthens to Category 2, targets Florida

In its discussion, the center said the environment ahead of Michael was conducive to intensification. It expected the storm to turn due north tonight, then nort...

Photos and videos show mass destruction from 'Monstrous' Michael in Florida

There were moments of glory for Gulf Coast surfers, however, as Florida Panhandlers like Sterling Spencer were able to squeeze in sessions at novelty spots be...

No one's ever seen a moonmoon but the internet already loves them

Other scientists exploring the same subject have called it a "moon-moon". But are moons also orbited by something, and if yes, then what do you call these obje...

Trouble for Hubble: Gyro Fails on Space Telescope

The Hubble , behind iconic images such as Pillars of Creation (below) has watched the skies for 28 years, having launched in 1990. The Hubble space telescop...

Florida town almost wiped off the map by Hurricane Michael

President Donald Trump pledged to help storm victims. So many families have lost everything. "We will not rest or waver until the job is done and the recovery i...

Beachside town battered by Hurricane Michael

Michael's eye came ashore near Mexico Beach , about 20 miles (32km) southeast of Panama City. Home after home was razed from its foundations in the town of a...

Hurricane Michael before and after photos capture utter devastation

Widespread cell tower and internet outages have been reported along the devastating path of Hurricane Michael , according to the Federal Communications Commiss...

Astronauts make emergency landing after Russian rocket fails after launch

Hague and Ovchinin launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:40 a.m. ET, heading to join the crew of the International Space Station . Both ...

Hurricane Michael leads to unimaginable destruction: 17 chilling photos

The storm is now making its way through the Carolinas. Under a perfectly clear blue sky, families living along the Florida Panhandle emerged tentatively yeste...

Astronauts survive emergency landing after booster fails on Russian rocket

But as the Soyuz is now the only way we have to get humans into space, this means new crew can't be sent to the ISS until Roscosmos is confident the issue...

'Monstrous' hurricane Michael powering towards Florida

Scott has already declared a state of emergency in 35 counties, and the Florida National Guard has activated 1,250 troops for planning, logistics and emergency ...

Soyuz capsule makes emergency landing after booster failure, Russian media reports

Most recently, a mysterious hole was detected on the Russian section of the ISS in August, and a Soyuz launch failure destroyed 18 satellites in November 2017....

Michael charges into Southeast after slamming north Florida

Josh Benson, a news anchor at WFLA, a Tampa Bay news station, shared a video taken by Tessa Talarico in Mexico Beach that showed the extreme flooding. Mexico ...

Hurricane Michael Could Be 'One of the Worst' to Strike Florida

Tuesday. Tens of thousands of Floridians were warned on Tuesday to get out of harm's way as Hurricane Michael churned over the Gulf of Mexico toward the north...

Hurricane Michael path: Is Michael going to hit Virginia? Tracking hurricane Michael

Corelogic noted the compact nature of hurricane Michael, which will have limited the size of the swathe of damage on landfall, but the storm surge has impacte...