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New moon: China to launch lunar lighting in outer space

The company says it will be launching an "illumination satellite" in less than two years, this created to light up the night sky with artificial light 8 times ...

Scientists create monkey-pig hybrid in China

The two piglets, born in Beijing, China , died within a week. This is the first report of the full term chimera pig-monkey, State Key Laboratory of Stem Ce...

Birds are getting smaller, study finds

The evidence suggests warming temperatures caused the decrease in body size, which in turn caused the increase in wing length. "We had good reason to expect t...

NASA mission catches near-Earth asteroid ejecting material into space

What's next: OSIRIS-REx will continue to survey Bennu , and eventually attempt to collect samples from the surface. This artist's concept shows the Origins S...

SpaceX Successfully Launches the Arabsat-6A Satellite and Lands Three Boosters

Privately owned SpaceX, also known as Space Exploration Technologies Corp, was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk , who is also a co-founder of electric vehicle ma...

Falcon Heavy sends first commercial satellite into orbit

It will be just the second time a Falcon Heavy soars. During Falcon Heavy's widely watched debut flight in February 2018, only the two side boosters were re...

You Cannot Conceive Of The Hugeness Of This Black Hole

Located in the Galaxy Holm 15A among the Abell 85 cluster, the actual span of the black hole would have a radius that's 800 times the distance between the Ea...

How does the solar wind affect Earth?

The U-M findings, part of the first wave of results from the spacecraft that launched in August 2018, provide important insights into two fundamental questions ...

Climate change is shrinking birds in the US

This isn't the only way that climate change has changed bird ecology recently. Earlier this year, a study from the University of Cape Town found mountain wagt...

NASA details Parker Solar Probe’s groundbreaking Sun discoveries

The U-M findings, part of the first wave of results from the spacecraft that launched in August 2018, provide important insights into two fundamental questions ...

Uk Hidden giant planet discovered orbiting tiny white dwarf star

These findings had been printed Wednesday within the journal Nature . The team had inspected around 7000 white dwarfs observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey...

Current decade to be the hottest ever

According to WMO, concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which had hit a record level of 407.8 parts per million (ppm) in 2018, continued to rise ...

Audentes Therapeutics (NASDAQ:BOLD) Downgraded to Market Perform at BMO Capital Markets

Tower Research Capital LLC TRC now owns 2,438 shares of the biotechnology company's stock worth $68,000 after purchasing an additional 2,241 shares during the p...

SpaceX is going to try to launch its Falcon Heavy yet again

SpaceX accomplished its primary mission of launching the Arabsat-6A telecommunication satellite late this afternoon from famed Launch Complex 39A at the Kenned...

COP25 Opens in Madrid Amid Dire Warnings about Climate Change

The conference is important because it's where countries will discuss how they can deal with climate change and get their country to net zero emissions. House...

SpaceX delays mega rocket launch due to high wind shear

The core booster landed on an ocean's surface offshore by hundreds of miles, 2 minutes later. That's the only part of the first mission that missed. "Three fo...

Huawei to move research centre from U.S. to Canada, founder says

Huawei's "center for research and development will be moved out of the United States, and that will be relocated to Canada", Ren told the Globe and Mail , ad...

Facebook adds WhatsApp button to its revamped disaster-reporting feature

The new features will allow for photo and video sharing within the Crisis Response centre on Facebook. The firm previously allowed users to be able to request...

NASA Will Test Anti Cosmic Radiation Vests With Dummies In Space

The unmanned Artemis 1, previously known as Exploration Mission-1, is the first in a spate of missions that will facilitate human exploration of the moon and ...

A Space Rock Taller as the Washington Monument Is Heading Towards Earth

Despite the space rock making a "close approach" to our planet next week, NASA does not expect the asteroid to deviate from its path and hit Earth. Didymoon...

NASA satellite finds crashed Indian Moon lander AFP

NASA released an image taken by its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) that showed the site of the spacecraft's impact (September 6 in India and September 7 ...

Parmitano spacewalk over - English

It was the third spacewalk in almost three weeks for Italy's Luca Parmitano and NASA's Andrew Morgan. The spectrometer has been searching for antimatter and d...

Underwater loudspeakers can help restore coral reef

One way to help restore the coral reef's natural recovery process is to boost fish populations. The new technique generates sounds that are lost when reefs are ...

Don't fiddle while the planet burns, United Nations chief warns climate summit

It will be held on December 2-13. Activists and campaigners assembled inside the conference and outside but there was a lack of the pageantry and passion that...

Choose hope or climate surrender, says UN chief

In order to limit the global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, emissions need to be slashed by almost half by 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2050. H...

HIV rate continues decline to record low in British Columbia: Health Ministry

Mercy Waithera, a 26-year-old student and peer educator living with HIV , is having the same discussion with about 60 other teenagers all living with HIV/AIDS ...

Meet Katie Bouman, the Genius behind the Blackhole Photograph!

Katie Bouman's work was key to the first ever photograph of a black hole, taken by Event Horizon. What she and a team of 200 global scientists did is unbelie...

Black holes discovered to actually be bigger than expected, astronomers say

LIU JIfeng said that such black holes should not exist in the Milky Way galaxy as per the current models that handle stellar evolution, and added that the ...

Space shocker: Earth's moon is shrinking, experiencing seismic activities

A fault scarp is an area where the ground in one area has moved vertically with respect to another as a result of geological processes like earthquakes. By look...

Quebec town of Asbestos tires of sounding toxic

Officials in Asbestos, Quebec, said the city will change it name to distance itself from the toxic building insulating material. For decades, the town thrived o...