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Risky wind chills across Wisconsin

More snow is likely Sunday night through Monday . Power of 5 Chief Meteorologist Mark Johnson said the wind chill will peak Friday during the morning com...

Arctic Air Brings Dangerous Wind Chill Temperatures

Another storm arrives on Monday & it could be a significant snow maker. FRIGID temps continue through the weekend with temps running 20-30° below normal, bare...

What Is a Partial Solar Eclipse?

Joe High School officials told us they bought close to 400 certified solar eclipse glasses in preparation for the astronomical phenomenon. A partial eclips...

Find it easy to stay trim? Thank your skinny genes

We all have a friend who seems to eat and eat and eat without putting on a single pound. They also looked at lifestyle questionnaires to rule out other lifest...

Earth's oldest discovered... on the Moon

An worldwide team associated with Center for Lunar Science and Exploration (CLSE) in the United States found evidence that the rock was launched from Earth by...

Faraway space snowman is pitted and has bright 'collar'

The legendary New Horizons spacecraft has sent back the most detailed image yet of MU69 - the most distant object a human spacecraft has ever explored. Categori...

'Net-zero emissions in Scotland by 2045'

Gina Hanrahan, policy director for WWF Scotland said: "By 2050, the target date under the Scottish Climate Change Act, Scotland could be removing far more emiss...

High winds blow over, damage SpaceX rocket in Rio Grande Valley

Musk previously said SpaceX plans to build a taller, orbit-capable version " around June " of this year. Musk added that the tanks did not suffer any damage f...

Concern About Global Warming Among Americans Spikes, Report Says

It also found that 72 percent of Democrats who said climate change is real attributed its existence primarily to anthropogenic causes, a figure far higher...

A federal carbon tax will plunge the country into recession: Doug Ford

Ford claimed on Monday that the federal carbon price will be an economic disaster and lead to recession. The line was quickly denounced by Greenpeace, the Ont...

Blue Origin will launch nine NASA-sponsored tech payloads on Tuesday

The rocket and crew capsule system is aimed at the suborbital tourism market, allowing paying customers to enjoy into a few minutes of zero-G flight prior to a ...

Air pollution 'makes people feel unhappy'

In a paper published earlier this week in the journal Nature Human Behaviour , researchers applied an algorithm that measured the sentiment of 210 million geot...

Elon Musk asked to build $10 billion next-generation Large Hadron Collider

Who wouldn't want to see Musk's large hadron? American billionaire Elon Musk spoke with the Director of the European Center for nuclear research Fabiola Giano...

WATCH Meteorite Crashing Into ‘Super Blood Wolf Moon’

A small and quick flash was first spotted during eclipse live streams at 11:41 PM ET, just as the eclipse started. The Moon Impacts Detection and Analysis S...

World first as meteorite captured crashing into Moon during rare lunar eclipse

On Sunday, millions of people around the world watched as the Earth's shadow covered the moon in a copper-reddish glow in what was known as a " Super Blood Wolf...

NASA Switches Astronaut on Boeing's 1st Crewed Starliner Spacecraft Test Flight

Nasa announced late on Tuesday that astronaut Eric Boe will no longer fly on the mission owing to unspecified "medical reasons". Fincke has been part of NAS...

Europe 'to start mining the surface of the moon by 2025'

It looks like Europe is planning their own moon mission. "Regolith is an ore from which it is possible to extract water and oxygen, thus enabling an independe...

Ancient 'Galagadon' shark sported teeth shaped like Galaga spaceship

Galagadon lived around 67 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period, in what would have been freshwater rivers. These findings were published in the ...

Trump on Storm: Could Use Some 'Old Fashioned Global Warming'

January 21-President Trump still doesn't buy the connection between freezing temperatures and "global warming". President Donald Trump is warning Americans af...

Astronomers Explain Mystery Orbits in Outermost Reaches of Solar System

The weird orbits of objects on the edge of our Solar System could have a more straightforward explanation which does not involve a mysterious planet . Proof co...

Attenborough urges Davos leaders to act on climate change

In his speech, Attenborough said that without action on climate change, civilization would collapse and that it was up to humans to use their "natural problem-s...

Greenland's Ice Melting Faster than Previously Thought

The patterns they found show an alarming trend - by 2012, ice was being lost at almost four times the rate that prevailed in 2003, researchers said. "Whatever...

Officer ran over Florida pair lying in road to watch eclipse

Police said around 11:30 p.m., at the height of the eclipse, the officer was patrolling in the park and driving around 5 miles per hour when his vehicle struck ...

Interpreting the super blood moon

When the full moon moved into Earth's shadow, it darkened, but did not disappear. At the peak of the spectacle, sunlight passed through Earth's atmosphere and l...

Missed the super wolf blood moon? Stunning photos, here

The pictures were taken by Nigel Bainton, who braved the bitter cold in the early hours of the morning to photograph the spectacle from Lowestoft Harbour. The "...

USA spy satellite launched into space

PST. Pacific time, arcing over the Pacific Ocean west of Los Angeles as it headed toward space. But in a post-launch statement , ULA indicated that it got NROL...

Chinese researchers sprout seeds on the moon for first time ever

Aside from Russian Federation and the United States, it is the only other country to reach the moon . This mission has launched China into space race. We cou...

NASA and China collaborate on Moon mission

China wants to establish a lunar research base one day, possibly using 3D printing technology to build facilities, the Chinese space agency said Monday. In acc...

Space Service: satellite to produce artificial shooting stars

After orbiting the Earth over the coming year and descending to an altitude of 248 miles, the satellite - which weighs 68kg and measures just 23in by 31in - wil...

"Blood moon" visible in Saint Lucia this weekend

The Bishop Museum says the moon is in the full shadow of the earth shortly after it rises. About 6:30 p.m., the penumbra or lighter outer shadow of Eart...