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Oceans warming faster than expected, set heat record in 2018 - scientists

The world's oceans are rising in temperature faster than previously believed as they absorb most of the world's growing climate-changing emissions, scientists...

DON'T MISS: Super blood moon total lunar eclipse this month

Well, it is believed that Blood Moons brings disaster on Earth like volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. Due to this, the next massive celestial event of 2019, t...

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The insects have an outsized impact on forest soils by helping control moisture in the dirt, a critical component to forest health that climate change and human...

Musk’s SpaceX and NASA target February for key demo-1 flight

Crew Dragon was previously set to head to orbit on January 7, but that date was reset for January 17. "We are grateful for everything they have accomplished and...

Talks continue to break impasse over pipeline construction in northern BC

The chiefs say members will abide by a court injunction granting the Coastal GasLink pipeline company access to a bridge that had been blocked, if RCMP agree to...

Citizen scientist just discovered a planet twice the size of earth

That new earth is actually located in the habitable zone of the star where it is now being into hopes that there are the instances of life there. It has now rai...

SpaceX wants to be 'leaner,' sets layoffs

SpaceX is laying off about 10 percent of its workforce, a cost-cutting move the company says is required to focus on development of its next-generation launch s...

SpaceX Falcon 9 Iridium-8 launch today, live stream

The rocket is expected to carry 10 satellites from Iridium into orbit. The original fleet of satellites, famous for their periodic Iridium flares , were launch...

Elon Musk posts first glimpse of SpaceX's finished Starship test vehicle

This is a prototype version, nicknamed the " Hopper ", that has been assembled at the SpaceX launch site in Texas. Musk posted the photograph of the Starship ...

Brightest quasar found by Hubble telescope

Less than a billion years after the Big Bang, a supermassive black hole began devouring anything within its gravitational grasp; this triggered a firestorm of s...

Murray Cod Australia says no effect from Darling River fish deaths

It's a serious issue: mass fish deaths in the Darling River at Menindee. He then dry retches and walks off camera. "It's a national disgrace, this once magn...

Alien contact? Mysteriously repeating radio signals captured by Canadian telescope

However, these aren't your usual everyday radio signals, carrying with it a rap number composed in some alien tongue billions of light years away. The Canadian...

First Direct Evidence Stars Like Our Sun Turn Into Crystals — SNAPSHOT

For the first time scientists have found evidence that ancient dying stars, known as white dwarfs, transform into diamond-like globes which still burn intensely...

China shows first images from far side of the moon

A camera deployed on Chang'e-4 took a photo that was released by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) today. After making a soft landing on January 3 ...

DeSantis Picks Appellate Judge for Supreme Court

Justice Lagoa is a Cuban-American from Hialeah, Florida, where her parents instilled in her an appreciation of the freedoms enjoyed in the United States. Barbar...

This Huge Black Hole Is Spinning at Half the Speed of Light!

However, the boundary of a black hole-the event horizon, which is the point of no return-offers some opportunity for study. Because MAXI had caught the black ...

Hubble finds record-breaking quasar with brightness of 600 trillion suns

Named after the American astronomer Edwin Hubble , the veteran telescope has been cranking away for more than quarter of century since it was launched in 1990....

US carbon dioxide emissions are once again on the rise

Carbon dioxide emissions spiked last year in the United States after three years of decline, according to a study. The Trump administration is relaxing Obam...

MPs vote to further bind Theresa May's hands on Brexit

When the Prime Minister chose to delay the meaningful vote on her Brexit deal by a month because she was facing a historic defeat, with more than 100 Tories r...

Astronomers intercept mysterious repeating radio signals from space

Before CHIME began to gather data, some scientists wondered if the range of radio frequencies the telescope had been created to detect would be too low to pick ...

MPs to start 5 day Brexit Withdrawal Agreement debate

Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay will open five days of debate in the Commons tomorrow before the Prime Minister wraps it up on Tuesday evening and MPs finally...

Scientists Want To Engineer A Spicy Tomato

The fleshy tomato stands in sharp contrast to the more agriculturally hard chilli plant that contain capsaicinoids, molecules that give peppers their spicines...

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe to apologize to '60s Scoop survivors

But I do know this. Parkyn said it also includes several recommendations, like doing more to educate people about the Sixties Scoop, and holding more sharing ...

Elon Musk Unveils Shiny New Concept Art For SpaceX's Starship

Starship test vehicle under assembly will look similar to this illustration when finished. The new ship has been named the Starship Alpha or Starship Hopper a...

Hubblecast 115 Light: Triangulum Galaxy in unrivalled detail

The massive mosaic image of the Triangulum galaxy (M33) was released on January 7 and shows one of dozens of our celestial neighbours in our suburb of the unive...

NASA Probe Discovers Third New Planet Outside Solar System

HD 21749b completes one orbit of its host star, which is almost as bright as our sun, every 36 Earth days. It has also discovered a super-Earth and a rocky worl...

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule perched on pad ahead of first orbital flight

The Crew Dragon and its Falcon 9 rocket were rolled out to the historic Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida Thursday, J...

World to witness first solar eclipse of the year tomorrow

The eclipse will occur from 4pm to 8pm. It will not be visible in India, though it can be viewed from parts of Eastern Asia including Siberia, Mongolia, north...

China: Chinese Space Agency Lands Probe on the Moon's Far Side

A Chinese space probe successfully touched down on the far side of the moon yesterday, state media said , hailing it as an historic first landing there on a ...

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...