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Zooming in on the Southern Crab Nebula
As the red giant casts off some of its material in its final years, some of it is captured by the gravitational pull of the white dwarf , and it too casts ...
Bank of England may face climate change target under Labour
The shadow chancellor made the pledge to explore new responsibilities for the Bank after praising Mark Carney , its Governor, for his stance on climate change....
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Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket sends Cygnus cargo ship to the space station
Mission engineers load the final cargo into the Cygnus resupply spacecraft onboard the Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, Tuesday, April 16, 2019, at launch Pad-0...
Southern California tickled by tiny tremors every 3 minutes
In Southern California, there are about 400 of those sensors, and the researchers took their data and performed a more powerful analysis on it using computer ...
Meteoroid strikes eject precious water from Moon
When the Apollo missions brought lunar rocks to Earth, scientists found evidence that the moon was devoid of water. "The Moon doesn't have significant a...
An interstellar space rock hit our planet five years ago
Now, after examining records of meteor strikes on Earth from years past, Harvard researchers believe they may have discovered evidence of the first-ever inter...
Europe's youth must vote en masse next month, Greta Thunberg
Francis went up to her at the end of the audience, where Thunberg showed off her sign. Thunberg rose to worldwide prominence last August for organising the fi...
Experts finally detect first-ever molecule of the universe
The finding opens a window into the behavior of planetary nebulas , and into this specific molecule (which formed differently in the distant past than in NGC ...
Rocket launch to International Space Station
While we can't watch the immune response of astronaut mice, we can watch the live stream of the lift-off via the embedded video below. She will be part of thr...
Novel device creates electricity from snow
To resolve this issue, a team from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) has developed a new device that can harvest electricity from the snow. This...
Full Pink Moon coming Friday! But the name is deceiving…
While this Friday's moon will no doubt be spectacular even it won't be pink. The one that will shine this Friday was named after spring flower "moss pink". Th...
TESS spacecraft discovered an Earth-sized planet 53 light-years away
The new Earth-sized planet is likely a rocky though uninhabitable world, as it circles its star in just 7.8 days - a relatively tight orbit that would generate ...
Lyrid meteor shower is back. Here’s how to see it in California
If you are an early riser, or a stay-up-all-nighter, the pre-dawn hours of April 22nd have a special show ready for you - the annual Lyrid meteor shower . In t...
Astronomers confirm third planet in binary star system
With three planets and two suns , the circumbinary system Kepler-47 is one of the most interesting star systems ever studied by scientists because it is the on...
Great white sharks are terrified of orcas, research shows
A new study led by the Monterey Bay Aquarium and published Tuesday in Nature found great white sharks leave their "preferred hunting ground" when orcas - also...
NASA astronaut Christina Koch aims for record-setting 328 days on ISS
She will be part of three expeditions - 59, 60 and 61 - during her current first spaceflight, Nasa said in a statement. Jennifer Fogarty, chief scientist of N...
Fireball lights up Virginia night sky
According to witnesses, it was visible in Delaware, North Carolina, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. Reports of a meteor al...
NASA Finds Evidence Of The Universe’s Primordial Molecule — Early Universe & Evolution
The finding opens a window into the behavior of planetary nebulas , and into this specific molecule (which formed differently in the distant past than in NGC ...
Researchers discover ancient giant ‘lion’ in Kenya
The species name, kutokaafrika, is Swahili for "coming from Africa" because Simbakubwa is the oldest of the very big hyaenodonts, suggesting this lineage of g...
You Can Buy A Real Baby T-Rex Online Right Now
The 68-million-years old fossil was listed by professional fossil hunter Alan Detrich, along with a "buy it now" asking price of nearly $3 million. The 68-milli...
Israeli spacecraft crashes attempting moon landing
If successful, it would have made Israel the fourth country to land on the moon . As it is, only 3 Nations have successfully landed on the Moon and those...
Space station shipment launched from Virginia seashore
NASA's other commercial shipper, SpaceX, is due to launch a shipment from Florida on April 26. For the mission, Cygnus is taking roughly 7,600 pounds of suppl...
NASA's planet hunter finds Earth-sized planet 53 light-years away
Artist's conception of HD 21749c, the first Earth-sized planet found by NASA's Transiting Exoplanets Survey Satellite ( TESS ), as well as its sibling, HD 217...
Ontario's court challenge against federal carbon law gets underway
The Liberal climate-change law is so broad, a lawyer for the province told the Appeal Court hearing, that it would give the federal government powers that would...
Full 'Pink Moon' will rise in the night sky this Easter
AccuWeather.com reported that the moon will instead appear yellow, orange or even red - depending on atmospheric conditions when the moon first peers above the ...
Protesters reveal rail disruption plan as police shut Tube Wi-Fi
Transport officials have said services on the Docklands Light Railway are delayed, following the protest action. Nearly 300 arrests were made in the first tw...
NASA to save earth from asteroid collision
DART will head for the moon of the binary, purposefully slam into the small asteroid at a speed of about 6 km/s (13,400 mph) and hope to change its course by a...
Team assesses Everything went wrong with lunar landing
Entrepreneurship and innovation, Israeli and Jewish - these were the components of the Spacecraft Bereishit, even before the addition of state-of-the-art instru...
Global E-waste Recycling Market Analysis 2019
The report presents the market competitive landscape and a corresponding detailed analysis of the major vendor/key players in the market. As a result, recycling...
Microplastics now in the air of remote mountain regions
It is 75 miles from the nearest city. The numbers were "astounding", says Allen, and comparable to what you'd find in the air in Paris and Dongguan, China, the ...