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A mission to Mars could cause learning impairment and anxiety, study says

The study exposed lab mice to low doses of neutron and photon radiation over a period of six months. Acharya et al uncovered striking neurobehavioral and ...

WWF Calls for ‘Radical Transformation of Land Use’ to Combat Climate Change

It is the first IPCC report in which most of the authors are from developing countries. Five countries - Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Ukraine and the Uni...

Elon Musk Reveals Starship Prototypes Could be Ready to Fly in August

Marking the 50th anniversary since the Apollo 11 mission in which humans first stepped onto the moon, NASA chief Jim Bridenstine has told Sky News the agenc...

McDonald's hated new 'eco-friendly' paper straws can not be recycled

The internal memo admits: "Paper straws are not yet recyclable and should be disposed of in general waste until further notice". McDonald's says the materials...

3D map of the Milky Way depicts our galaxy's twisted disk

Along with providing the most accurate look at the shape of our galaxy to date, the scientists also learned some interesting things about the stars they spotted...

Two Meteor Showers Will Brighten the Skies on Monday

Unfortunately, it seems like a lot of these big astronomical events here in the Hudson Valley, whether they be meteor showers or lunar eclipses, face cloudy ski...

European heatwave fueled by human-induced climate change, study finds

On July 25, a record-breaking temperature of 38.7C (101.66F) was registered at Cambridge University Botanic Garden, exceeding the previous United Kingdom high o...

Amazon to invest in Cork wind farm

According to the latest Solars Means Business report from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), in 2018, Apple had almost 400 megawatts of total ins...

Prince Harry 'gives barefoot speech' at Google's secretive climate change conference

In a palpable turn of irony, Italian media reported officials expect attendees to bring 114 private jets to the summit; 40 had already arrived by the weekend....

NASA Satellite Discovers Planet That Could Potentially Support Life

However, a newly-discovered planet orbiting a star close to Earth is one of the rare exceptions, and it's showing some serious promise for researchers to who ...

Asteroid bigger than Empire State Building is passing by Earth

On Aug. 10, Asteroid 2006 QQ23 will fly within 0.049 astronomical units (4.6 million miles) of Earth at about 10,400 mph (16,740 km/h). Astronomers estimated ...

Space agency spots closest ’habitable’ Earth-like planet yet — NASA exoplanet discovery

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a mission created to comb the heavens for exoplanets, has discovered its first potentially habitable worl...

Weather Alerts Issued as Two Tropical Cyclones Approach Hawaii

Erick was moving west-northwest at 13 miles per hour. The agency forecasted that Flossie would weaken too. A flood advisory has been issued for the Bi...

It's Good! Hubble Telescope Scores Big with Football-Shaped Alien Planet

Eventually, this hot Jupiter will be torn to shreds by its host star. The escaping heavy metals could also contribute to the exoplanet's rising temperatures...

See the Milky Way's 3-D structure

Over the years, astronomers have employed various attempts to map our galaxy, including star counts, radio observations of gas molecules, and even extrapolati...

Bill Nye-promoted satellite sails into space on sunbeams

As of now, LightSail is the first and only spacecraft to use solar sailing as its means of propulsion around Earth. LightSail 2 , the spacecraft the Plane...

Universal announces mysteriously 'Epic' new theme park

The concept art for the park is featured above. The new park will be part of a larger complex, complete with entertainment district, restaurants, hotels and sho...

NASA discovers 3 new planets; 1 potentially habitable ‘super Earth’

It's about six times bigger than Earth and orbits in its host star's habitable zone, where water could exist in liquid form on the surface. "This system is ...

NASA's TESS mission discovers three new worlds

They include a small, rocky planet that is slightly larger than Earth and two gaseous planets about twice Earth's size. The potentially habitable planet and...

NASA Reveals Partnerships Advancing Moon, Mars Tech

SpaceX of Hawthorne, Calif., will work with NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to advance their technology to vertically land large rockets on the Moon ...

Scientists said the threat of collision of the Earth with meteor shower

According to NASA , like other meteor showers , the rocks from the Delta Aquariid are fragments that came from a comet or asteroid. NASA said the meteor showe...

Two-metre dinosaur bone discovered in south of France

Remains of some of the largest animals that ever lived on land have been dug up since 2010 at the Angeac-Charente site. The Angeac-Charente site, located near...

More than 160 environmental, land rights activists murdered in 2018, report says

More than 164 land and environmental activists were killed in targeted attacks a year ago, according to the new Global Witness annual report. In 2017, Glo...

Two hurricanes, one a Category 4, are moving toward Hawaii

HST. Though the storm is not expected to make landfall, it could bring enhanced rain, winds and surf to Hawaii. Back-to-back hurricanes churned in the easte...

Chandrayaan-2 now 3 steps closer to moon, says ISRO

India's lunar probe Chandrayaan 2 has edged closer to the Moon, after a third earth bound orbit raising manoeuvre on Monday. The agency has planned a tota...

NASA Finds Planet Similar to Earth

Its members include the dwarf star, which is 40 per cent smaller than the Sun in size and mass, and the three planets or exoplanets (planets outside the solar...

A black moon is coming on July 31. Here’s what that means

We've seen all kinds of interesting phases of the Moon, from " Super blood Moons " to " full worm supermoons " to even the stunning Strawbery Moon . Here's eve...

Nuclear explosion level asteroid had close-shave with Earth

Asteroid 2019 OK came hurtling toward Earth at a speed of almost 15 miles a second, before flying past. According to Forbes, Asteroid 2019 OK was able to dodg...

A billionaire bought every seat on SpaceX's first flight to the moon

It won't be Maezawa alone on the rocket, though. He collects modern art and plans to build a museum in Chiba, east of Tokyo, someday. In high school, he founded...

National Hurricane Center: Tropical Wave has low chance of developing

However, meteorologists indicated it is still too early to tell where the system will be by mid-week. NHC forecasters say that little or no development of thi...