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NASA Reveals What Its Juno Spacecraft Spotted After Death Challenging Manoeuvre

The US space agency said that the discovery was made on November 3 , 2019, when a NASA vehicle flew over Jupiter's cloud tops at a height of more than 3,...

First identified comet to visit our solar system from another star

The sun's gravity is slightly deviating its trajectory, but it can not capture it due to the shape of its orbit and its high speed of approximately 100,000 mile...

Blue Origin moves closer to human spaceflight with 12th New Shepard launch

EST (1630 GMT, ), though was constrained to postpone the launch because of bad weather conditions. The rocket mail was part of an educational project organized ...

Boeing's Starliner crew capsule ready for space flight

Starliner will be carrying an anthropomorphic test dummy, nicknamed Rosie, that will be instrumented to measure the conditions astronauts will experience on the...

Genetic 'clock' predicts lifespan in animals

Until now it has been hard to determine how many years an animal can live. Previous research has suggested that it is controlled by genes but so far, no gene va...

Bad Weather Delays Blue Origin Launch of Reusable New Shepard Spacecraft

The launch time has not yet been announced. The booster of Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket prepares to land in western Texas July 18, 2018. You can also w...

When And Where You Can Watch The Last Meteor Shower Of 2019

This meteor shower is a great one for children who can't stay up too late as it peaks around 10 p.m. This Friday night we could see what AccuWeather Ast...

Water on planet Mars just a shovel away

The authors of the new article make use of data from two of those spacecraft, the NASA Mars Recognition Orbiter (MRO) and the Mars Odyssey orbiter, to locate ...

December's Moon Turns Full On 12/12 at 12:12am

When is the next Full Moon after the Cold Moon? Next year, sky watchers will get a chance to see two "supermoons", moons that turn full when their orbit i...

Oldest cave painting in world suggests religion began in Indonesia not Europe

The team of archaeologists, led by Griffith University in Australia, who made the find say it sheds new light on the origin of modern human cognition. All in al...

Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Is Time 'Person of the Year'

Thunberg, in an interview with Time , said, "We can't just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow". About 40 climate activi...

A Black Moon Is Coming on July 31

There was Blue Moon , Strawberry moon and even Red Wolf Moon in the night sky. By definition , a full moon is the phase of the moon in which its who...

Final full moon of the decade peaks at 12

It will be full a little after midnight on Thursday morning, December 12, and appear "opposite" the sun at 12:12 a.m. EST, according to NASA. According to Forb...

Chargers QB Philip Rivers gives Jaguars' Yannick Ngakoue an earful

Philip Rivers is one of the more underrated trash talkers in the NFL. During the 45-10 win at EverBank Field, Rivers went 16 of 22 with 314 yards and three...

NASA Blows Hole In World's Largest Rocket Fuel Tank (On Purpose)

NASA Space Launch System , the rocket system that will eventually provide the means for the space agency to send spacecraft and astronauts to the Moon, is a ve...

Exxon found not guilty of fraud over true cost of climate regulations

The Martin Act is a NY state law that is particularly wide ranging, and doesn't require an Attorney General to prove intent-under the law, the AG didn't have ...

Russian supply ship docks with International Space Station

The two spacecraft had been cruising 260 miles (418 kilometers) above the Yellow Sea, east of Shanghai, after they docked, NASA officers stated. The company s...

From Bad to Worse for Greenland's Ice Sheet

Dr Louise Sime, a climate scientist at the British Antarctic Survey, said the findings "should be of huge concern for all those who will be affected by sea lev...

Astronauts begin series of spacewalks outside International Space Station

A spacewalk is defined by NASA as "anytime an astronaut gets out of a vehicle while in space ". And then, it was canceled . Ms McClain, who has droppe...

Core Stage Of Next Moon Rocket Now Ready Says NASA

The data will help with the development of SLS, while also assuring NASA that the tank can handle the rigors of launch and spaceflight. "We are achieving sustai...

Space Junk Cleanup to Begin With European Space Agency Mission

By 2025, the agency plans on launching the world's first orbiting junk collector, a four-armed robot that tracks down space waste like Pac-Man in a maze. It's...

Saturn's moon Enceladus' 'tiger stripes' mystery explained

Astronomers did not know why the stripes appeared to form only on the southern pole, as well as why they were so evenly spaced across that surface. It just so h...

Nobel science laureates stress urgency of addressing climate change

As space agencies like NASA are busy formulating plans for human colonization in Mars, Didier Queloz, a Swizz astronomer who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize for Ph...

In Final College Football Playoff Rankings Of 2019 Season

App State, too, and Miami (Ohio), Minnesota, Georgia, LSU , Boise State, and Florida Atlantic. Whether counting each of the past three Big Ten championship g...

Marine life under threat as oxygen levels fall

Species like jellyfish want low-oxygen areas, but low-oxygen sensitive ones, including most fish, don't. The sea gets about a portion of all fossil fuel emis...

China exchanged data with Nasa on mission to far side of moon

Eight days after its historic landing on the far side of the Moon, China's Chang'e 4 lander captured its first panoramic image. Wu Weiren, an academician of...

Chinese spacecraft makes 1st landing on moon's far side

The science team also hopes to study parts of the sheet of melted rock that would have filled the newly formed South Pole-Aitken Basin, allowing them to identif...

SpaceX Sends Thousands of Supplies to International Space Station

The capsule flying for CRS-19 was reused twice before - in 2014 and 2017. The Dragon capsule also contains a group of genetically enhanced "mighty mice" that ...

'Plastic' Christmas jumpers among worst examples of fast fashion, environmental charity warns

Hubbub, a United Kingdom charity, found that 95% of the 108 sweaters it analyzed - taken from 11 high-street and online retailers - were fully or partially made...

Ford teams up with McDonald's to build vehicle parts from coffee waste

Heat properties of the chaff component are significantly better than the now used material, according to Ford. "The two companies have discovered that coffee ...