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Polar vortex brings rare May snow, low temps to New England

A system that began in the Great Lakes region will bring gusty winds and 6 to 12 inches of wet snow to New England. And the models support the possibility of ...

FDA authorizes the first at-home Covid-19 saliva test

The test will cost $150 and needs to be fully supervised by a practitioner via telemedicine to ensure proper sample collection, a spokeswoman for RUCDR Infinit...

Trump administration drafting Artemis Accords moon mining pact

Whilst the drafted agreement has not yet been formally shared with allies of the United States, the moon has been seen as an increasingly important strategic as...

Astronomers capture new images of Jupiter using 'lucky' technique

The regular imaging of Jupiter by Hubble and Gemini in support of the Juno mission is proving valuable in studies of many other weather phenomena, as well, incl...

Fossil in United Kingdom shows ancient squid species killed while attacking prey

A close-up view of the fish, showing its crushed skull and the arms of the cephalopod. Scientists have put forward some hypotheses: it is likely that the pre...

USA approves at-home saliva-based virus test

Using our technology and healthcare platform, we are working with RUCDR Infinite Biologics to make their saliva test available to the public and businesses ac...

Kate Middleton launches photo project to document life in lockdown Britain

Unsurprisingly, the Duchess appears as graceful and well-styled in quarantine as she does in routine settings, but one thing seems to be a bit different: the wa...

Scientists find the closest known black hole to date

The researchers suggest that there are likely other black holes hiding nearby, invisible to us . But when they tried to disentangle the light of the three star...

'Full-flower supermoon' rises on world starting to emerge from pandemic

It also has special significance for Buddhists, who celebrate a traditional holiday called Vesak at the time of the Flower Moon. This flower Moon will appear fu...

'Full-flower supermoon' rises on world starting to emerge from pandemic lockdowns

Stargazers were treated to a rare sight Thursday evening, a "full flower supermoon". The full moon in May is also known as the "flower moon", signifying the f...

Earth-Like Rivers On Mars Are 3.7 Billion Years Old

Experts didn't bring the rover there, as he still had to pass very important laboratory tests, but they "simulated" it . The team narrowed its focus to a roc...

Snowbirds to fly over Ottawa Thursday as part of morale-boosting tour

The iconic nine jets are on a cross-country tour to raise morale during the COVID-19 pandemic. They travelled along the Saint-Lawrence River in the Témiscouat...

New research identified hundreds of mutations of COVID-19 virus

Researchers in the United Kingdom have discovered nearly 200 recurrent genetic mutations to the virus that causes COVID-19. New research tracking the mutation...

Space Force Releases First Recruitment Ad

The video shows futuristic control rooms, rockets set to launch and satellites zooming high above the earth. "We would have to imagine what will be imagined, ...

Coronavirus detected in semen of infected men ―Chinese study

Researchers at the Shangqiu Municipal Hospital in China's Henan Province conducted a study to determine whether the virus was present in semen. And now, resea...

Bus-sized asteroid will fly safely across Earth today

That's about 0.62 times the distance between the Earth and the moon. The Pan-STARRS observation, it turned out, represented the opposite combination of chara...

Final Supermoon of 2020 to Occur Thursday Morning

Here in the United Kingdom, the Full Moon will peak below the horizon at about 11.45am BST. "All you need is a clear sky and your eyes". The worm supermoon ...

This week’s Full Flower Moon will be the last Supermoon of 2020

The Flower Moon is seen 99% full as it rises behind Victoria Tower on Castle Hill on May 6 in Huddersfield. Pictured: A Super Blue Blood Moon sets behind Down...

China says That Its new space station will be Finished by 2022

The white large rocket blasted off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center on the coast of southern China's island province of Hainan at 6 p.m. (Beijing Time)...

'Apocalyptic' sand storm engulfs Niger's capital city

The dust storm enveloped streets and buildings across the entire city, turning night into day and the giving the sky a "blood red" tint. The enormous storm sw...

China launches new large carrier rocket

It measures approximately 53.7 meters in length, reports Xinhua and weighs about 849 tons on takeoff. It has been nearly 10 years in development and boasts th...

More than 3bn could live in extreme heat by 2070

And, in the best case, it will be 1.2 billion live in conditions external to the ecological niche, the sum of the necessary conditions for the establishment of ...

Discovery of nearly 200 coronavirus mutations could help develop a vaccine

Now, using analysis of SARS-CoV-2 virus samples from the pandemic, scientists have been able to show that only one type of the virus is currently circulating. S...

ESO instrument finds closest black hole to Earth

It is part of a star system that can be seen with the naked eye . This particular one lies just 1,000 light years from Earth , and was spotted by the good f...

Last Supermoon of 2020 arrives tonight

Other names for May's full moon include the corn planting moon , milk moon and Vesak festival moon, which commemorates the birth, enlightenment and death of ...

Virus behind COVID-19 has not mutated into different types say researchers

Scientists say most of these changes will have no effect on the biology of the virus or the aggressiveness of the disease they cause. UCL professor Francois B...

Pentagon announces new mission for secretive space drone

Maybe you were put here to be the answer. Viewers can click through to the military service's website, which describes itself as an outlet that "organizes, tr...

Alien life could exist in these atmospheric conditions: Expands researchers' scope

A final set of bottles was left with Earth air. The molecular hydrogen persisted in the atmosphere for hundreds of millions of years up to the Great Oxidation E...

May's flower moon is the final supermoon of the year

A supermoon is a full moon or new moon that coincides with the point closest to Earth in its elliptic orbit. The final supermoon of 2020 is set to rise ...

Scientists Discover A Black Hole Closer To Earth Than Any Other

Therefore, "this system contains the nearest black hole to Earth that we know of". A black hole found just 1,000 light-years from Earth is the closest yet...