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Hubble Telescope marks 30th birthday with stunning new image

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Colts trade up for Jonathan Taylor in 2nd round

The Indianapolis Colts today selected quarterback Jacob Eason with their fourth-round (122nd-overall) pick in the 2020 NFL Draft . Taylor joins Marlon M...

Attack on DRC’s Virunga National Park kills at least 17

Another six people were wounded, the spokesman told AFP, adding that four other civilians passing through the area were also targeted. Around 60 fighters from...

Scientists Discover Interstellar Asteroids Hiding in Our Solar System

They have been known to be a part of the Solar System since their origin. Astronomers have for some time been perplexed by Centaurs in light of the fact that ...

You Cheeky Thief! Solar System Stole Interstellar Asteroids, Claims a New Study

Scientists working on 19 asteroids think that asteroids came from outside the Solar System. Analysts trust they can utilize the articles to comprehend the con...

On Earth Day, pope says nature will not forgive our trespasses

The pope's online audience was just one of countless contributions to Earth Day celebrations, which took to the digital landscape because of the global pandemic...

2019 sets record for Europe's hottest year

The reports were published to mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day , which is being celebrated online around the world. In its yearly climate report, the...

Scientists have warned about priblizhenii of the asteroid to Earth

According to the data collected by the agency, the asteroid is following a natural trajectory that intersects Earth's path. As per the agency, the asteroid, w...

Pompeo: U.S. calls on China to permanently close wildlife wet markets

Pompeo also expressed concern over a U.S. government-funded study that said China's Mekong River dams held back large volumes of water during a drought in downs...

North pole soon to be ice free in summer, Researchers Say

The study is the result of collaboration by an global team of researchers from 21 institutions, including the Italian Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Chan...

Astronomers watch a suspected exoplanet disappear before their very eyes

An artist's impression depicts the collision of two 125-mile-wide icy, dusty bodies orbiting the bright start Fomalhaut , located 25 light-years away. But data...

Bugged: Earth's insect population shrinks 27% in 30 years

Specifically, the results suggest the number of midges, mayflies and other freshwater insects have been increasing on average around 1.08 percent each year . A...

Air Pollution in US Exacerbates Covid-19 Dangers

Widespread wildfires also contributed to the air quality and caused challenges to the efforts to clean the air. In our operations centre at King's, we have been...

White House COVID-19 Task Force: Sunlight kills the virus

So it'd be interesting to check that. Trump directly addressed Dr Deborah Birx, cooordinator of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, saying "I would like...

China pledges additional $30 million for World Health Organization

China on Thursday announced it will donate an additional $30 million to the World Health Organization. Ms Chaib, asked about the impact of Trump's decision la...

NASA, USGS release detailed geological map of the moon

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has released a comprehensive new map of the Moon in partnership with NASA and the Lunar Planetary Institute. The USGS...

Lyrid meteor shower dazzles in night sky during peak

Every Spring, the Lyrids produce about 10-20 meteors per hour at their peak. So, what's the best way to see the shooting stars? A typically dark place shoul...

Ontario Premier Doug Ford's mom-in-law, 95, diagnosed with COVID-19

As of 4 p.m. Wednesday, there are 132 long-term care homes with COVID-19 outbreaks, with infections among 2,189 residents and 1,058 staff members. Under gener...

Gov't puts pressure on public companies to return loans

The $350 billion for the Paycheck Protection Program that was part of a coronavirus rescue package Congress passed last month quickly ran dry. The new Treasur...

Ontario reports 634 new COVID-19 cases, 54 more deaths

Ontario Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. David Williams has repeatedly said he wants to see daily case growth, excluding the ongoing situation in long-term...

Lyrid Meteor Shower peaks tonight

He said there was a reason stargazers were more excited about the shower this year. With a new moon on Tuesday night, expect the ideal amount of darkness. T...

Scientists have a new theory about the disappearance of the exoplanet

This diagram simulates what astronomers, studying Hubble Space Telescope observations, taken over several years, consider evidence for the first-ever detectio...

SpaceX moves ahead with Starlink satellite launch amid pandemic

Falcon 9's first stage had supported Crew Dragon's first flight to the International Space Station, launch of the RADARSAT Constellation Mission, and the fourth...

Lyrid Meteor Shower in Progress, Set to Peak Wednesday Morning

So with nearly no light from the Moon, the bright meteors will be clearly visible in the night sky. The shower has been observed for over 2,600 years and in m...

Facebook helps coronavirus fight by mapping symptoms

However, Beuy Joob of the Sanitation1 Medical Academic Center in Bangkok, Thailand, has told a Health.com investigation into dermatological problems among coro...

Lyrid meteor shower to peak overnight

It is the oldest recorded meteor shower still visible today, and was first recorded in 687 BCE. Meteor showers, or shooting stars, are caused when pieces of...

First gravitational wave caught from binary black hole merger with unequal masses

Black holes, phenomenally dense celestial entities, are extraordinarily hard to observe despite their great mass. On April 12, 2019, gravitational wave detect...

ISS crew blast off after long quarantine

That process began even earlier than usual last month as the trio and their reserve crew hunkered down in Russia's Star City training centre outside Moscow, esc...

There's a Six-Planet System Orbital Harmony in Our Solar System

This can be seen in Pluto and Neptune in our solar system. The remaining planet is described as a "mini-Neptune"-planets that are less massive than Neptune whil...

NASA discovers new exoplanet that could support liquid water

Its surface temperature could, in this manner, be like the one we have here. Thomas Zurbuchen, partner head of Nasa's Science Mission Directorate in Washing...