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Trump cancels Obama plan to reduce carbon emissions

On Wednesday, the Trump administration announced that it would replace the Clean Power Plan with the Affordable Clean Energy rule or ACE. James called the...

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Additionally, the GAO accuses NASA of not being transparent in its cost estimates for both the SLS and Orion. When GAO reduced the baseline to account for the r...

Microplastics survey discovers UK river more polluted than 'great Pacific garbage patch'

Greenpeace has called for the government to introduce "bold" plastic reduction targets and create an independent watchdog with powers to enforce them. The highe...

New space mission could intercept another interstellar visitor like Oumuamua

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NASA has set a new altitude record at the asteroid Bennu

The NASA spacecraft known as OSIRIS-REx has just managed to take one of the closest photographs of the asteroid Bennu , a rock that is close to Earth's orbit...

Scientists reveal skull of beluga-narwhal hybrid through DNA analysis

Belugas and narwhals share some similarities. While visiting West Greenland in the 1980s, an Inuit hunter killed an odd-looking whale . In the image below,...

Scientists locate merging galaxies from 13 billion years ago

An image of two galaxies capture by researchers at ALMA is giving insight into the history of how celestial bodies collide and evolve. When Hubble looked at...

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On 17 April, NASA's spacecraft, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, used its High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) and captured images of an im...

Robot fish powered by 'blood' and goes days 'without eating'

Robots, it's fair to say, are still incredibly basic when compared to animals. These necessary individual components add to the bulk and power requirements of r...

A New Study Proves Ancient Hyenas Inhabited Canada During the Ice Age

The two enamel have been discovered throughout a paleontological expedition in Yukon's Outdated Crow Basin in 1973. The hyena fossils were recovered in the 19...

Boeing is moving its Space and Launch headquarters to Florida’s Space Coast

Sunita L. Williams, who earned a master's degree in engineering management from Florida Institute of Technology, has been selected to fly on the first long-dura...

President Trump rolls back Obama-era rule targeting coal-fired power plants

The Affordable Clean Energy rule is expected to give states broad leeway in how they regulate emissions from power plants, in line with a draft blueprint the ag...

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BP rig makes u-turn amid Greenpeace protest

BP slammed Greenpeace and said it had secured an injunction against the Arctic Sunrise. Approximately 20 miles away from the drill site, the rig made a U-turn a...

Final Cassini Images Shed Light On Origin Of Saturn’s Rings

In certain cases, the changes were caused by Saturn's moons as they interact with the rings, including the mooon Daphnis . "These new details of how the moon...

New York Approves Driver’s Licenses For Illegal Immigrants

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Its maiden mission saw it dive to depths of 4,000 metres in the Orkney Passage, a region of the Southern Ocean around 500 miles from the Antarctic Peninsula. ...

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The latest image was captured by the agency's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on June 13, showing half of the rock brightened by sunlight while the other half sits in the...

NOAA: 260 dolphins dead on Gulf Coast, triple usual number

However, a MS scientist said the spillway opening is partly to be blamed for the death of 126 dolphins across the Mississippi's coastline. Dr. Erin Fougères, ...

The missions to the Moon in 50 fascinating numbers — Apollo

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NASA's Cassini reveals new sculpting in Saturn rings

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Higher carbon taxes needed to meet targets for greenhouse-gas-emissions: PBO

As it stands, the federal price is slated to increase from $20 per tonne of greenhouse-gas emissions in 2019 to $50 per tonne in 2022, but the government had no...

NASA to use non-toxic spacecraft fuel for first time

By removing hydrazine and using this new fuel, the safety risks fall away. The new fuel instead uses a hydroxylammonium nitrate fuel, or oxidizer blend, also ...

NASA discovers Star Trek insignia on Mars

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Scientists Discover Strange Table Salt Compound on Jupiter's Europa

Unlike on Earth, however, this ocean is deep enough to cover the whole surface of Europa, and being far from the sun, the ocean surface is globally frozen over....