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SpaceX successfully deploys yet another batch of 60 Starlink satellites

Space Launch: America Returns To Space premiering Sunday 14 June at 8:30pm take viewers inside NASA and SpaceX's joint mission to launch veteran astronauts ...

May had highest recorded level of atmospheric Carbon dioxide concentrations

Carbon dioxide recorded at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii reached 417 parts per million (ppm) in May, higher than the record of 414.8 ppm set previous ye...

Mars` `lumpy` moons suggests existence of ring around it

In 2017, scientists have paid attention to more close to Mars, Phobos, which began to lose altitude relative to the planet-master. For Ćuk, what's really intr...

The SpaceX Starlink Mission In Realtime

Space Launch: America Returns To Space premiering Sunday 14 June at 8:30pm take viewers inside NASA and SpaceX's joint mission to launch veteran astronauts...

We Now Know That Dinosaurs Were Picky Eaters

But now the dinosaur's life-like remains are delivering even more intimate details about the 110-million-year-old herbivore: new research teases apart the fo...

Second penumbral lunar eclipse of the year on Friday night

How to watch June 2020 Lunar Eclipse in Mumbai? "Unlike a full lunar or solar eclipse , the visual effect of a penumbral eclipse is usually so minimal ...

Snapchat will no longer promote posts from President Trump

Trump's official account still remains up on Snapchat. Snap said the Discover section features voices across the political spectrum, including both Republic...

According to scientists, this is the purest air in the world

Since weather and climate are closely linked, they naturally connect most regions of the world-thus making it more hard amid this era of climate change to fin...

Mattis Criticizes Trump, New Charges Against Minnesota Police, U.S. Economy

For Republicans, the challenge peaked this week when federal forces abruptly cleared peaceful protesters from Lafayette Park near the White House so that Trump ...

U.S. to Bar Chinese Airlines from Entering Country

The Trump administration moved Wednesday to block Chinese airlines from flying to the U.S.in an escalation of trade and diplomatic tensions between the two coun...

SpaceX launches eighth Starlink mission, first VisorSat satellite

Today's launch from Cape Canaveral went off without a hitch, with the prototype VisorSat joining the other Starlink satellites in orbit. On Wednesday, it's se...

Stadium-sized asteroid to make 'close approach' with Earth, NASA warns

UTC, and at its closest will reach a distance of 3.16 million miles to Earth. NASA also classed it as a PHA, stating: The space agency said: "Potentially Ha...

Russian Federation declares state of emergency after diesel spill in Siberia

Putin slammed the head of the Norilsk Nickel subsidiary that runs the NTEK power plant, where a fuel reservoir collapsed near the city of Norilsk and leaked i...

China adjusts plans for int'l inbound passenger flights

The US announced the move yesterday, Reuters reports. The growing tension between the US and China is expanding into the field of airlines. The Transporta...

Dead Sea Scroll Fragment Sheds Light on Jewish Temple

DNA research on the Dead Sea Scrolls has revealed that not all of the ancient manuscripts came from the desert landscape where they were discovered, accordin...

SpaceX Launches Another Batch of Starlink Internet Satellites

SpaceX has had a busy week, but it's not slowing down for anyone. With this launch under SpaceX's belt, the company has fully proven that the March 2020 in-fl...

Stadium-sized asteroid will fly by Earth on Saturday

It is set to skim Earth's orbit this week, the report said. NASA is tracking a giant asteroid which may be taller than the Empire State Building in the USA,...

NASA warns about 'potentially dangerous' asteroid approaching Earth

Asteroid 163348 (2002 NN4) was earlier found to be zooming around in our planet's cosmic neighbourhood, with its closest approach to Earth expected to come alon...

SpaceX Falcon 9 set for second shot at rocket reusability record [webcast]

They will stay there for up to 110 days before boarding the Crew Dragon once again for a fiery fall through Earth's atmosphere and, hopefully, a safe splashdo...

'Humanity pushing 500 species to brink of extinction'

Over 400 vertebrate species have gone extinct in the last 100 years - up to 10,000 years in the normal evolutionary period, researchers said. Ivory-billed woo...

Get ready for the full 'strawberry' moon on Friday

For the unversed, this is the second penumbral lunar eclipse and the first one happened on January 10. During a penumbral eclipse such as Friday's, however,...

Plunging cost of wind and solar marks turning point in energy transition

In under a decade the cost of large-scale solar power has fallen by more than 80% while onshore wind has fallen by nearly 40% and offshore wind has declined by ...

Penumbral lunar eclipse on June 5: Check how to watch, significance, timings

The full strawberry moon is set to happen at 19:12 Universal Time (that's 3:12pm ET and 12:12pm PT) but to see it in all of its glory, you'll want to look up du...

Wuhan finds no new COVID-19 cases in city-wide testing

At the same time, World Health Organization officials behind the scenes were frustrated that China was slow-walking their ability to get information to combat t...

NASA awards long-term Orion production contract to Lockheed Martin

The long-time government contractor will supply NASA with as many as 12 Orion spacecraft over the coming decade. The success of Artemis is depends heavil...

First astronaut launch from United States soil in nearly a decade

NASA TV is airing the launch as well. He admitted to being emotional - and nervous. The astronauts had to remain strapped in their seats until all the fuel...

Astronauts on commercial SpaceX spacecraft enters space station

Anatoly Ivanishin, Ivan Vagner , Chris Cassidy, Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley . After making initial contact with the ISS , Crew Dragon went through a seri...

SpaceX's pioneering astronauts board the International Space Station

In partnership with USA space agency NASA, which has awarded it contracts and grants worth US$3.1bn over the years, the private company's Falcon 9 rocket pr...

SpaceX capsule delivers Nasa astronauts to ISS

NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken reported that the capsule was performing beautifully, as they closed in for the docking . Behnken and Hurley ...

Sun Potentially Enters New Solar Cycle With Strongest Flare Since 2017

After several months of very few sunspots and little solar activity, scientists and space weather forecasters are keeping their eye on this new cluster to see...