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China's Spacecraft Makes the First-Ever Landing on Moon's Dark Side

Wu Weiren, the chief designer of the Lunar Exploration Project, told CCTV that it was "a small step for the rover, but one giant leap for the Chinese nation...

Ocean Cleanup's $20M plastic-catcher breaks, founder vows 'troubles are solvable'

The plan was to begin cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch , a giant floating mass of more than 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic twice the size of Texas...

Smaller Galaxy on Track to Smash Into Milky Way

New data suggests we'll hit another galaxy well before that, though, and the super-smash could send our Solar System headfirst on a path out of the Milky Way. R...

Scientists boost plant yield by 40% through ‘genetic hack’

They report that these engineered plants developed faster, grew taller, and produced about 40 percent more biomass, most of which was found in 50-percent-la...

First meteor shower of 2019 to peak Thursday night

Mid- and far-north latitudes will have the best chance to see the peak, which lasts only a few hours. Asia, Europe , South America will also get the treat ...

Cyclone Penny upgraded to category 2

As of about 11.40am today Tropical Cyclone Penny was a category 1 out over the Coral Sea and gaining strength. "If [Penny] does weaken into an ex-tropical cyc...

Don't miss the total (lunar) eclipse of the heart this month

According to NASA, the total lunar eclipse and supermoon will be "one of the sky's most dazzling shows". The term Supermoon was coined as early as 1979 an...

China's latest moon mission to put rover where none have gone before

They'll blast off Saturday for the first mission to land on the dark side of the moon. The Chang'e-4 is an unmanned apparatus, which naturally reduces the ris...

Milky Way on Collision Course With Large Magellanic Cloud

Researchers in Durham, England, and Helsinki, Finland, used the Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments ( EAGLE ) simulator, which can recreat...

Chinese Moon Rover Making Tracks on Lunar Far Side

Until now, all manned and unmanned soft landings have taken place on the near side of the moon making the Chinese mission truly historic. "The Chang'e-4, carr...

Astronaut accidentally calls 911 from space

The 60-year-old said that in order for him to contact the Houston Centre from space , he had to dial 9 for an outside line, followed by 011 for an worldwide li...

Cosmic collision course: nearby galaxy set to hit Milky Way

Although the collision will not directly impact the Solar System, it will trigger a secondary chain of events, dislodging other stars from their around our gala...

Ultima Thule: Nasa reveal high-res picture of snowman-shaped faraway object

It zoomed past Pluto - collecting numerous photos and reams of information about the now dwarf planet - in July 2015, and reached Ultima Thule early on New Ye...

How to see Quadrantids in UK: What time to watch meteor shower

Those who live in the Northern Hemisphere will have the best chance of observation, and according to Time and Date , visibility for South Florida should be "ex...

Annual meteor shower should be visible in southern Colorado

According to the American Meteor Society, the shower is expected to reach its peak in the USA between midnight and dawn Friday. They happen once a year in early...

Chinese spacecraft makes first landing on Moon's far side

The landing "lifted the mysterious veil" from the far side of the moon, and "opened a new chapter in human lunar exploration", according to the broadcaster. U...

Rare Super Blood Moon eclipse to give stargazers triple treat

The January full moon was nicknamed the " wolf moon " - and occasionally the "old moon" - by Native American tribes after wolves that howled outside as they h...

NASA New Horizons image shows weird Ultima Thule looks like a snowman

Signals confirming the probe is healthy and had filled its digital recorders with science data on Ultima Thule reached the mission operations center at 10:29 a....

And The Rain Continues For A Couple More Days

High: 41. Wind: N 10-20 miles per hour. TONIGHT: Rain developing late. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. Low: 32. H...

National parks dealing with vandals, human waste in shutdown

Officials closed the Mariposa Grove and the Wawona and Hodgson Meadows campgrounds due to human feces and urine along California Highway 41, the Times reported....

Space probe Osiris-Rex makes closest ever orbit around smallest object

The OSIRIS-REx team will now look for a site devoid of boulders and rocks where the probe can scoop up samples as it circles the asteroid. For example, the miss...

Tropical Cyclone Barrels Toward Australia's Queensland Coast

A broader "watch" alert is in place for the area from Kowanyama up to the Torres Strait Islands. "We can expect some very heavy rainfall and near the centre, ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft showed us Pluto

This artist's impression of Ultima Thule depicts it as a contact binary, two smaller objects that orbit each other and are so close that they touch. Scienti...

Spacecraft sets records orbiting asteroid 110m km away

The asteroid measures about 1,600 feet (500 meters) in diameter. NASA said the orbit marks "a leap for humankind" because no spacecraft has ever "circled so c...

Scientists have developed a new model of expansion of the Universe

It includes all space, time, matter, and energy everywhere. The most likely explanation is that a odd force dubbed "dark energy" is driving it. In other words, ...

China Lunar Spacecraft in Position for Humanity’s 1st-Ever Dark Side Landing

Chang'e 4 launched on December 10. Chang'e 4's scientific tasks include astronomical observation using low-frequency radio, surveying the terrain and landform...

Nancy Grace Roman, 'Mother of Hubble' Space Telescope, Dies at 93

Even though Roman retired from NASA in 1979, her legacy remains strong in the space sector. She died on Christmas Day. She was always fascinated with space, for...

Christmas tree collection days set for January 7 - 11

Speaking of real trees, what do you do with your tree when you are finished with it? In front of City Hall Thursday morning, city officials threw Christmas tr...

Six men arrested for eating rare monkey in Vietnam

They after that filmed themselves on a mobile phone while eating the monkey and live streamed the terrible incident on Facebook . They were identified and ar...

How to Watch January's 'Super Blood Wolf Moon' Eclipse

First, it's a total lunar eclipse , which means the sun and moon will be perfectly aligned on opposite sides of the Earth. This " super blood wolf moon " get...