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Asia virus latest: Wuhan lockdown ends, markets drop

Voicing joy and excitement from behind face masks, tens of thousands of people fled Wuhan after a 76-day travel ban was lifted on the Chinese city where the c...

SpaceX loses Falcon Heavy center core in fiery explosion during failed landing

It was the first time the military used the world's most powerful rocket, the first nighttime launch for the Falcon Heavy and the first time such a government m...

Russia Compares Trump's Space Mining Order to Colonialism

Details: The executive order directs the State Department to find global partners that are interested in collaborating with the US on creating "sustainable ope...

Wuhan reopens after coronavirus lockdown

China cut off all access to Wuhan on January 23, shutting down connections to other cities via air travel, high-speed rail and expressways. A Beijing-based ...

Russian space agency says Trump paving way to seize other planets

The moon's water ice and other natural resources can be mined and used by the United States, according to a new executive order signed by President Trump. "...

Russian Federation slams USA order to privatize outer space

Roscosmos said in a statement Tuesday that "attempts to expropriate outer space and aggressive plans to actually take over other planets" deter worldwide coop...

Biggest and brightest moon of 2020 to appear Tuesday

The April Supermoon is scheduled to be visible on April 8, 2020. If the moon is within 10 per cent of its closest distance to the earth at the moment of f...

Get set for super pink moon

Because of its close proximity to Earth - a mere 357,035km - it will be one of the superest supermoons of them all, BUT it won't be pink! So when the moon ...

Hubble Space Telescope Displays 'Cannibal' Galaxy

Once completed, the telescope will be used to look back to the first galaxies born in the early universe more than 13.5 billion years ago, and observe the sourc...

Boeing : will redo Starliner capsule's uncrewed test flight

The capsule ended up in the wrong orbit and, as a result, could not reach the International Space Station as intended. "We've chose to fly a second Orbital Fl...

Swimmer killed by shark off eastern Australia

Detective Senior Sergeant Tony Anderson said the ranger had been doing maintenance work before the attack. 'There were four people swimming off the back of a ...

NASA announces plans for manned space bases on the Moon and Mars

Government effort to develop joint statements, bilateral agreements, and multilateral instruments with like-minded foreign states to enable safe and sustainable...

Brightest moon of 2020 will be April’s Full Pink Supermoon

EarthSky says that the pink Supermoon is likely to appear at 10:35 pm in the USA. The moon on April 7 will be the brightest and look a lot bigger than usual...

Worker at Smiths Falls retirement homes tests positive for COVID-19

The Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit said infection control measures were imposed after the staff member at Lanark Lifestyles tested positive. "...

Researchers Find 2 Mating Flies Trapped In Prehistoric Amber

A pair of long-legged flies met a Romeo-and-Juliet ending some 41 million years ago, when a falling drop of tree resin ruined their tender moment. However, pale...

COVID-19 pandemic is making Earth vibrate less

The reduction in sound produced an interesting result, especially in Brussels: Lecocq and other seismologists at the station began to measure vibrations that ...

2 million-year-old ancient fossil Homo erectus unearthed

Analysis of ancient skull fragments found near Johannesburg push the origin of the species back further than was believed. The new evidence comes from efforts...

SpaceX Wins First NASA Contract for Lunar Gateway Cargo Delivery Services

We will remind that earlier NASA "Zabala" Voyager 2 in the space of 11 months as recently interplanetary mission NASA has unexpectedly discovered a new black ho...

Major Hurricanes Are Possible in 'Above Normal' Season, Researchers Predict

In its annual preseason forecast Thursday, Colorado State University's Tropical Meteorology Project called for another busy season and the fifth in a row. T...

More than 12,000 apply to become a NASA astronaut

NASA also says that robotic rovers will be a key component of its Moon infrastructure, to be used for goal including gathering data and materials for research, ...

BAT hails breakthrough with potential Covid-19 vaccine

Philip Morris International Inc. and British American Tobacco Plc (BAT) are attempting to develop a defence against the novel coronavirus using a tobacco l...

COVID-19 in Quebec: What you need to know Friday

Asked about reports of the United States outbidding other countries to acquire needed supplies, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland told reporters in Ottawa...

Montezuma County reports first death from COVID-19

VanGundy had said the county health department does not keep track of data for the number of people tested within the county. Minors ages 0-17 are still lumpe...

Garden waste to go uncollected

The changes mean that brown bins will no longer be collected, with the council encouraging people to use their grey bins for food and garden waste instead. ...

University of Pittsburgh scientists believe they found potential coronavirus vaccine

APN01 is the recombinant form of the human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (rhACE2), and has the potential to block the infection of cells by the novel SARS...

NASA Revives Retro 'Worm' Logo For Crewed SpaceX Launch

However, the technology during the 1970s made it hard to print and, in 1975, NASA also chose to go for a more "modern" logo. NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine...

Coronavirus in Suffolk: Entertain children with Google 3D animal pictures

There are over 20 animals you can search as 3D animals in Google Chrome on your smartphone. Type an animal into Google (it's worked for shark, bear, lion, hors...

NASA call for astronauts draws 12000 spaceflight hopefuls

NASA said Wednesday that Americans from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and four USA territories applied to be part of the space agency's next astron...

COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow postponed due to coronavirus pandemic

Many countries were expected to release new commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions are part of the conference, known as COP26, which was scheduled for Nove...

Scientists discover ‘missing link’ in black hole evolution after detecting stellar HOMICIDE

With a confident conclusion to one mystery, Lin and other black hole astronomers find they have many more exciting questions to pursue. The X-ray source, name...