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Scale of California's Deadly Camp Fire Shown in Satellite Photos

Firefighters work to extinguish a flare-up of the Woolsey Fire on a hillside in West Hills, California, USA, 11 November 2018. "Half-gone" the actor grumble...

Three Asteroids Set To Fly Close To Earth This Weekend

Asteroids of size up to 30 metres in diameter will pass by our planet one after the other on November 10. The space Agency said: "as soon as they revolve around...

You honestly won't believe how much someone paid for Stephen Hawking's wheelchair

The motorized chair, used by Hawking after he was paralyzed with motor neuron disease, raised 296,750 pounds ($385,122) in a Christie's online auction. A select...

Astronomers find black hole 'which could be spinning space itself'

Astronomers found that the black hole the binary star system 4U 1630-47 is spinning at close to the maximum possible rate. They first noticed it from X-rays t...

Solar Probe 'alive' after being closest ever to Sun

In April 1976, that probe reached 153,454 mph (246,960 km/h) and got within 26.55 million miles (42.73 million km) of the sun. Members of the Parker Solar Pr...

High-powered lasers could send bat signal to alien astronomers

This would create a beacon that can be distinguished from the light of the sun and can be detected by alien astronomers from a neighboring star system that mi...

Was mysterious object spotted in space an alien probe?

Given its high speed and unusual trajectory, the dark-red object was believed to have come from outside our solar system but its flattened and elongated shape a...

Astronomers watch black holes merge as galaxies collide

A team of scientists led by Eureka Scientific researcher Michael Koss captured the images which show what happens when galaxies collide. Galactic mergers co...

Mushrooms can now generate electricity

Researchers were able to turn regular white button mushrooms into sources of electricity . Cyanobacteria have been in the news lately for negative reas...

Stephen Hawking's wheelchair sells for $539,000 at auction

The sale was named " On the Shoulders of Giants " - a reference to the famous phrase once used by Newton of his own achievements: "If I have seen further it is ...

Imperial Oil gives green light to new $2.6 billion oilsands project

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UN says Earth's ozone layer is healing as CFC curbs take hold

The healing signs of ozone layer was revealed on Monday by a new assessment report on Montreal Protocol (MP), the over 30-year-old global treaty which deals...

United States court halts construction of Keystone XL oil pipeline

TransCanada Corp.'s long-troubled Keystone XL oil pipeline project hit another roadblock as a U.S. District Court in Montana ruled it must wait for a further ...

China Unveils Earth's Next Orbiting Space Station -"The Heavenly Palace"

China unveiled on Tuesday a replica of its first permanently crewed space station, which would replace the worldwide community's orbiting laboratory and symbol...

Soyuz-ST Successfully Puts MetOp-C Satellite Into Orbit - Arianespace

The launch is the third for the Soyuz since an October 11 failure during the launch of the crewed Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft, forcing the use of the rocket's abort ...

More protection: UN says Earth's ozone layer is healing - International

Unseen, a layer of ozone encircles Earth's stratosphere protecting us from most of the harmful effects of ultraviolet light from the sun. Aerosol spray and co...

Wind farm 'predator' effect hits ecosystems

In particular, the team observed an explosion in the raptors' favorite meal - fan-throated lizards - in areas dominated by the turbines. Researchers of Indian...

NASA posts image of crashed ‘flying saucer from outer space’

It turns out that sensational frame shows the capsule of the spacecraft "Genesis", which was launched on 8 August 2001 to study the Sun. Then NASA officials...

Scientists reveal mysterious 'Oumuamua' object could be an alien spacecraft

Shmuel Bialy and Abraham Loeb, two astronomers from the Harvard Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, suggested the cigar-shaped object - given the Hawaiian na...

NASA scientists captured in space "silhouette of a bat"

The play of light creates a huge shadow . The arc-shaped galaxy is due to it being gravitationally lensed, which basically means its light passed near a mas...

Brexit: Irish rule out time-limited Brexit backstop

He described the UK as a "divided kingdom", which he said has not helped the negotiation process, adding: "That has made it very hard to come to an agreement". ...

Elon Musk to Develop a 'Futuristic, Blade Runner Pickup Truck'

The FBI declined to comment on the matter. The subpoena can compel Tesla to turn over materials the agency wants to review. Elon Musk said in an intervie...

Earth's oceans have absorbed 60 percent more heat than previously thought

The study comes out of Princeton University and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography; it was funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...

Footage of Soyuz accident shows rocket booster collision

On board the flight will not be the two men of the aborted mission, Nick Hague and Aleksey Ovchinin, but three other astronauts. Three crewmembers will launch...

Oceans heating faster than previously thought, study finds

Researchers used Scripps' high-precision measurements of oxygen and Carbon dioxide in the air to determine how much heat the oceans have stored during the time...

NASA asteroid-exploring Dawn spacecraft says a sad goodbye

NASA said that the data collect by the spacecraft was invaluable for researchers examining the history of the solar system. Dawn's death is the second blow of...

Hazy polluted morning in Delhi

An EPCA member had on Tuesday said in case of further deterioration of air quality, they are even contemplating regulating the use of private vehicles from Nove...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe reaches closest to the sun

Parker will make 24 close approaches to the sun over the next seven years, ultimately coming within just 3.8 million miles (6 million kilometres). Parker S...

Galactic crash gave Milky Way its cream

Although our galaxy survived, it has never been the same. The stars now form most of our Galaxy's inner halo - a diffuse component of old stars that were born...

Dinosaurs May Have Given Birds Their Colorful, Speckled Eggs

Small corvid eggs surround the larger eggs. In the eumaniraptorans, the researchers found evidence of a blue-green pigment named biliverdin and a red-brown ...