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This will peak on the night of Monday, June 10, when, depending on where you are in the world, the planet will be clearly visible to the naked eye - with bino...

Trump Admin To Expand Hunting At 74 Wildlife Refuges

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The analysis, published May 30 by Australian think-tank the Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration, calls for a new approach to climate change ...

Air pollution kills 100,000 Indian children every year, study says

The risk is higher for girls with 9.6 out of 10,000 girls dying before five as a result of the high levels of air pollution. Dr Mani suggests the Environment ...

Biden is fixing his climate plan that failed to cite sources

Trump successfully billed Obama-era environmental protections as job killers to his supporters, and has directed his administration to roll back many of them si...

Incredible dinosaur discovery: Herd of opal-encrusted dinos uncovered

GOLD COAST, Australia-Fossilized dinosaur remains recovered from an opal mine in the Australian Outback have been found to be from four specimens of a new s...

Hurricane Hunters to look at tropical disturbance in southern Gulf today

However, an Air Force Reserve reconnaissance aircraft that was scheduled to take a closer look at the system was canceled on Sunday and rescheduled for Monday a...

'Sordid Chapter' Ends As Philippines Sends Back Canada's Trash

President Rodrigo Duterte recently ordered the return of Canada's trash that was exported to the Philippines in 2013 and 2014. "Developing countries no longer...

Lego launches a 1,087-piece Apollo 11 lunar lander model, astronauts included

NASA's Apollo 11 mission to land the first humans on the moon involved the contributions of thousands of workers. It's part of what NASA is calling the Artemis...

Proven the main prediction of Hawking

In 1974, the late Stephen Hawking argued in a now-famous study that besides mass and spin, black holes can be characterized by a unique temperature. Hawking nam...

Adani moves closer to construction with black-throated finch approval

The area where Adani wants to dig the Carmichael coal mine is home to the largest known population of Black-throated finches and some of the best remaining ha...

Russians venture into open space from Space Station

Two Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS) have exited the craft for a six-hour spacewalk to undertake scientific research and conduct ma...

NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds Clay Cache on Mars

NASA is now trying to coordinate with another Mars visitor - the Insight lander - to take photos of the same clouds as Curiosity at the same time, as this ...

Space companies propose ways to fill low Earth orbit with commercial habitats

These "destinations" could potentially be turned to be used for in-space research and manufacturing to turn a profit. "The agency's ultimate goal in low-Earth...

Black Hole Created In Lab Confirms Stephen Hawking's Prediction

The standard description of a black hole is an object with such a strong gravitational force that light can't even escape once it moves behind a point of no ret...

Philippines ships dumped trash back to Canada

The 69 shipping containers of rotting waste were loaded onto the M/V Bavaria at Subic Bay port in the early hours of Friday, before embarking on a 20-day journe...

Lightning Strikes Russian Soyuz Rocket During Satellite Launch

Despite the strike, Roskosmos reported the rocket was uninjured, and the satellite deployed as expected. Rockets are known to trigger lightning as they ascend...

18 planets of similar size to Earth discovered outside the Solar System

The study estimates that this new technique - called the transit least-squares survey - opens the doors to discovering over 100 additional exoplanets in data ...

LEGO Celebrates the Moon Landing With 1,087-Piece NASA Apollo 11 Set

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Rain causes raw sewage overflow at Edgewater Beach

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Astronomers spot ‘forbidden’ planet which should not be able to exist

A team of scientists made discovery at the Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) facility in Chile. That's rather shocking, especially when you consider that it...

Send your name to Mars with NASA

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Newsday, Rivers around the world contain unsafe levels of antibiotics

The countries with the highest levels of antibiotic river pollution were Bangladesh, Kenya, Ghana, Pakistan and Nigeria. Most of the major rivers in the world...

Tons Of Trash Collected On Beach After Memorial Day ‘Floatopia’ Event

But it's a public beach and they should have cleaned up after themselves. Although trash is now picked up and gone, thanks to Virginia Beach Public Works an...

Ancient supernova led humans to walk upright, scientists claim

Humans and our primate relatives differ in many ways, but the fact we walk on two legs is one of the most obvious. "By 3.6 million years ago, we have proficie...

Severe Weather To Hit The Chicago Area Monday Afternoon

Storms are most likely to hit Northern Maryland, the weather service said, with the highest risk coming between 2 p.m. -11 p.m. There will still be plenty of dr...

May 28, 1:25 AM Weather Forecast Update

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Sydney water restrictions in effect from 1 June as drought grips NSW

Sydney dam levels are at 53.5% across all 11 dams , with Warragamba dam at 54.8% and Woronora dam at 44.3%. With the drought showing no sign of abating, stat...

Malaysia to return 3,000 tonnes of waste

Apart from Spain, the other countries include Australia , the United States , Canada , Saudi Arabia, Japan, China and Bangladesh , she added. Energy, Scie...