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Perth Look Up Tonight To Witness The Micro Moon

According to the Farmer's Almanac , a full moon on Friday the 13th is pretty rare. The next time we'll have a moon approaching fullness on Friday the 13th (b...

Have Astronomers Just Spotted Another Interstellar Object?

Initially, it was thought the object could be a comet . After the initial detections of the comet , Scout system , which is located at NASA's Jet Propulsi...

Modi brought ‘bad luck’ to ISRO, claims Kumaraswamy

I don't know, but maybe the his stepping into the Isro centre brought bad luck to scientists", Kumaraswamy told reporters in Mysuru. Chennai: The Indian ...

Planet with signs of water in atmosphere found by scientists

For one thing, K2-18b's size and surface gravity are much larger than Earth's. "This is the first time that we have detected water on a planet in the habitab...

Towering, balloonlike features found near Milky Way galaxy's center

Another possibility is large asteroids being dragged into the black hole. "We don't know what is driving this big feast". The environment surrounding the bl...

Some of the most magnificent full moons over Colorado

The last one was nearly 20 years ago, back in 2000 and we are not expected to see another one until 2049. It last happened on October 13, 2000, and won't happen...

Tech: Saturn's rings shine in Hubble's latest portrait

Astronomers will continue their yearly monitoring of the planet to track shifting weather patterns and identify other changes. Hubble isn't just snapping a be...

China’s lunar probe may land on the moon’s far side tonight

Unlike the face of the Moon closest to the Earth, no probe had ever touched the ground on the other side. The probe was launched from China's Sichuan province...

Trump Administration to Revoke Federal Water Protection Regulations

America's large rivers, lakes and reservoirs may capture more attention, but they are all the product of the waters that feed them. In 2015 , after engagin...

'Lovers of Modena' skeletons holding hands discovered to have both been men

The sex of the pair, known as the Lovers of Modena, could not be determined when they were unearthed in 2009 because they were so badly preserved. Researchers...

Vikram Lander Has Been Found On Lunar Surface By ISRO

It is no secret that ISRO's Chandrayaan-2 mission wasn't a complete success after all communication with the Vikram lander was lost after a hard landing on th...

Rare Harvest Moon Will Appear on Friday, Sept. 13

For everyone else, the full moon will appear in the Central, Mountain or Pacific time zones soon after sunset Friday. Even though the Harvest Moon falls on a ...

Water discovered for first time on planet that may be habitable

Astronomers made the discovery of atmospheric water vapour in K2-18 b's atmosphere using 2016 and 2017 data from the Hubble Space Telescope . Even without an...

Tropical Storm Humberto increases odds of development as it heads toward Florida

Should the system organize into a tropical depression it will be the ninth recorded depression of the year, and if it then grows to maintain at least 39 miles p...

Largest flying animal in history identified

A new species of giant flying reptile that soared 75 million years ago over what is now North America has been identified by scientists studying a cache of bone...

New model suggests Titan lakes are explosion craters

Titan has about 650 hydrocarbon lakes in its polar regions. That is based on specialists at NASA , who've urged a substitute for the long-held idea the lakes...

Hurricane Dorian Hits the Bahamas, Heads for the States

That equaled the Labor Day hurricane of 1935, before storms were named. From there, Dorian is predicted to shift northward, inching perilously near the coasts...

There might be life on the Moon after all!

Once rehydrated, they return to feeding and reproducing like nothing happened and what's even more interesting is that they revive at the same biological age th...

Rare full moon to appear on Friday the 13th across the US

The so-called "Harvest Moon", which is the full moon nearest to the autumnal equinox or the start of fall on Sept. 23, will be visible on Sept. 13 and into th...

Chinese Astronomers Spotted Puzzling Fast Radio Bursts From 3 Billion Light-Years Away

The " fast radio bursts " were detected by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope - also known as FAST - and are now being analysed to discov...

Almost 1,000 Amazon Employees To Protest Company's Inaction On Global Warming

So far, 941 employees have pledged to join the walkout, which is calling on Amazon to help stop climate change by cutting all carbon emissions by 2030. "Inves...

Hyundai 45 concept paves the way for bold electric cars

The Pony Coupe Concept, designed by the legendary Italdesign studio and inspired from the Delorean DMC-12, at that time was a showcase of what Hyundai wanted fr...

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Beta Rolls Out This Thursday

The beta's second weekend (September 19-23) includes cross-play, which should prove interesting. The PlayStation 4 Beta weekend begins Thursday, September 12 at...

It's a full, micro, harvest moon on Friday the 13th

A full moon on Friday the 13th is approaching at the end of this week, almost. It previously happened on October 13, 2000, and won't happen again until August...

Researchers Explain What Happened When Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Hit Earth

This is an artist's interpretation of the asteroid impact. First, the impact site was a fiery hellscape. "It's so rare in geology that we get to look at the...

Democratic Candidates Discuss The Environment at The Climate Townhall

CNN made a decision to host a climate change town hall after the Democratic National Committee voted against hosting an entire debate devoted to the issue....

‘Oscar of Science Goes’ to Team behind World's First Black Hole Image

The Breakthrough Prize, now in its eighth year, has three main prizes: in Fundamental Physics, in Life Sciences and in Mathematics. The awards have some of the ...

NASA Asteroid Tracker: 125-Foot NEO Skims Earth On Tuesday

NASA has detected an asteroid nearly as big as the Empire State Building that's on a near-collision course with Earth. This leads us to believe that Asteroid RG...

Big Oil undermines UN climate goals with $50bn of new projects

Carbon Tracker found that at least 30 percent of investments made by publicly traded oil majors - including ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell , BP, Total, Eni and Co...

Chandrayaan-2 Moon Landing

A visibly tensed K Sivan, ISRO chairman, was seen briefing the nation about the lost communication episode. The whole nation, including President Ram Nath ...