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Lyrid meteor shower to light up the West Berkshire skies

Living in a city with as many lights as Tokyo, it can be hard to spot stars in the night sky, but if you've never seen a meteor shower, you might want to cons...

Immune system genes linked to severity of COVID-19 disease

Most individuals present in the general public often forget that the term "coronavirus" refers to an entire family of viral zoonotic pathogens which affects the...

Unusual ingredient in interstellar Comet Borisov offers a clue to its origins

It turns out that Borisov's coma - the gas cloud trailing off the nucleus - contains three times the amount of carbon monoxide of any local comet. The water m...

Lyrids meteor shower: When and how to see it

The Lyrid meteor shower is an annual event as the Earth's orbit crosses into the path of the Thatcher comet . The first meteor shower of the spring wil...

Tom and Jerry, Popeye director passes away!

He is best known for his work on the Tom and Jerry animated series, and he directed 13 episodes. The animator and illustrator won the Academy Award for Best...

NASA, SpaceX to launch first USA astronaut mission in almost a decade

NASA astronauts Robert Behnken, 48, and Douglas Hurley, 52, will be flying on SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station for an "extende...

FDA Approves Pill For Aggressive Breast Cancer

The FDA granted approval of Tukysa to the company Seattle Genetics, Inc. FDA approves first new drug under worldwide collaboration, a treatment option for pat...

Russia carried out anti-satellite missile test, US military says

According to the spokeswoman, the claim made by US Space Command is "an attempt by the United States to divert global attention from real threats in outer space...

3 space travellers return to a different Earth hit by COVID-19

Three crew members of the International Space Station (ISS) returned to Earth on Friday after spending several months in the orbiting laboratory, NASA said....

Environment agency gutting rule credited with coal-plant toxic air cleanup

Yet with today's announcement, he continues a program of dismantling or undermining the very pollution standards that have delivered the public health benefits ...

SpaceX to launch NASA astronauts in historic mission

Earlier this year, Vice President Mike Pence vowed that NASA astronauts will soon launch into space from US soil for the first time in nearly 10 years. In a...

Climate-Driven Megadrought Is Emerging in Western US

Lead author A. Park Williams , a bioclimatologist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University explains, according to USAToday: "Because the ba...

Officials in northern Saskatchean link COVID-19 cases with travel to Alberta

To date, 12 people connected to the work camp there have tested positive for COVID-19, and because Interior residents often work at camps such as these, IHA is ...

The Lyrid Meteor Shower Is Coming

The meteor shower will reach its peak in the early hours till early morning between April 21-23. The Lyrids are known for their fast and bright meteors,...

Montana Judge Blocks Keystone XL Permit for River Crossings

The ruling does not affect current work on a span of the $8-billion Keystone XL pipeline across the Canada-U.S. border, but it does raise questions about securi...

ESA CHEOPS spacecraft passes crucial test, prepares to start exoplanet-hunting mission

Europe's newest space telescope has begun ramping up its science operations. And this should say a lot about the composition and internal structure of the t...

‘Rogue One’: Stellan Skarsgard & Kyle Soller Boarding Disney+ ‘Star Wars’ Series

According to Whitta, the team voted on the ones that they liked. The screenwriter also mentioned that a great way of differentiating Rogue One from the rest o...

Near-Earth Object Approaching Earth This Week — NASA Asteroid Tracker

As noted by the agency, the asteroid flew past Earth in 2015 from a distance of about 0.28258 astronomical units or around 26 million miles away. The data pro...

Strongest evidence yet that neutrinos explain how universe exists

In a paper published in the journal Nature , Rochester physics professors Kevin McFarland and Steve Manly and physics postdoctoral research associate Clare...

Greenland ice sheet melted at near record rate in 2019

The authors of the study from the Danish meteorological Institute in Copenhagen came to the conclusion that modern climate models do not consider the impact of ...

Shell to ramp up renewables in pursuit of net zero ambition

Shell will achieve its net-zero goal by or before 2050 by producing and selling more products with a zero-carbon or lower carbon footprint, including renewable ...

The planets line up

The three planets will appear in a line extending up at about a 30-degree angle in the southeast night sky, from Mars low in the sky right and up to Saturn and ...

Star seen 'dancing' around supermassive black hole proves Einstein was right

European astronomers found out that the star S2 in the centre of the Milky Way has a rosette-shaped orbit, which is another proof of the existence of a black h...

Soyuz crew returns to Earth roiled by COVID-19 pandemic

Its Soyuz landing pod landed under an orange and white striped parachute about 150 kilometers (93 miles) southeast of Dzhezkazgan, in central Kazakhstan. Morgan...

Scientists discover potentially habitable planet

The two rocky planets orbit their host star at an exact ratio: Kepler-1649c completes nine orbits in nearly exactly the same time the inner planet completes f...

Newly Discovered Asteroid Zipped Past Earth on April 15

The asteroid was first discovered on 11 April and is being tracked by astronomers at several observatories, including Germany's Karl Schwarzschild Observatory i...

NASA staff are sending rover commands to Mars from their homes

On March 20, 2020, nobody on the team was present at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, where the mission is based. Two days after they ...

NASA marking the 50th anniversary of "successful failure" Apollo 13 mission

Apollo 11 and 12 - the previous two missions - had landed on lunar maria- the dark patches on the near side of the Moon which provide comparatively easier land...

Alberta reports 126 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday

Wednesday's update of 126 new cases and no deaths did not include probable or recovered cases due to a government data outage. Dr. Hinshaw was able to give a ...

Did coronavirus start in Chinese lab? U.S. investigating COVID-19 origin

The documents come from an anonymous source in the medical field who did not want to be named for fear of retribution. Following the press conference, Pompeo ...