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India to witness solar eclipse on June 21

An annular solar eclipse occurs when the angular diameter of the Moon falls short of that of the Sun so that it can not cover up the latter completely. He belie...

Sushant Singh Rajput's sister-in-law Sudha Devi passes away in Bihar

The provisional post mortem report of Rajput has revealed that the provisional cause of death was asphyxia due to hanging, said Deputy Commissioner of Police (D...

SpaceX's Satellite Internet Teases Sending Out Invites for Public Beta Tests

While it is the ninth launch of Starlink satellites, it is the first to include satellites from multiple companies - the first-ever Rideshare launch, part of a ...

Arrest made in shooting of off-duty FWC officer

Hernandez was arrested and charged with negligent homicide and is now being held on $500,000 bond. His arrest came after authorities said three suspects wer...

Canada's Trans Mountain pipeline shut after British Columbia oil spill

The Trans Mountain pipeline in British Columbia shut down after an oil spill will resume operation Sunday afternoon. It comes at a sensitive time for Trans Mo...

SpaceX plans Starlink launch on June 12

Also on Thursday, NASA announced private space company Astrobotic will deliver the agency's moon rover, VIPER, to the moon by end of 2023. Although SpaceX has h...

Rocket Lab mission blasts off, United States spy agency's satellites deployed

That's good news both for Rocket Lab's existing operation, and for its ongoing work to establish a second launch site at its Mahia facility, which is well under...

Pink supermoon seen around the world

One user on Twitter commented: "It's great that we can all do something positive and #lookup in these dark times". "This is the moon tonight in our back yar...

Quantum 'fifth state of matter' observed in space for first time

First, bosons - atoms equally numerous with protons and electrons - are cooled to absolute zero using lasers to lock them in place. This little-known exotic s...

Two tornadoes reported in southern Ontario

A possible tornado was caught on camera Wednesday night near Belmont, Ont. Peter Kimbell, a warning preparedness meteorologist with the national weather age...

NASA and Astrobotic will deliver water-seeking VIPER rover to the Moon

VIPER will look for the location and concentration of ice on the Moon's surface, which will inform manned missions planned for 2024, according to NASA. VIPER's ...

Hubble telescope celebrates 30th year in Earth orbit

Hubble has made 1.4 million observations to date and has become one of the most prolific space observatories in history, providing data used by astronomers aro...

Rocket Lab Don't Stop Me Now Launch Highlights

Rocket Lab has returned to active launch status from its first launchpad in New Zealand, after the global COVID-19 pandemic temporarily paused its work there....

New Structures Detected Near Earth's Core Using Seismic Wave Recordings

In a similar fashion, the team used their Sequencer algorithm to analyse thousands of seismograms, pulling out echoes that let it create a new map showing the d...

Fifth State of Matter Observed in Space; Could Solve Many Universal Conundrums

Scientists believe that BECs contain key clues to mysterious phenomena such as dark energy, the unknown energy believed to be behind the accelerated expansion o...

Russian Federation criticizes about United States conceit to its space agenda

It was " strange " when some in the United States, consisting of NASA authorities, "started making wreaths for the "funeral" of Russian Soyuz," Rogozin compos...

Hope for pangolins as protection boosted in China

Some people believe that eating the scales of the pangolin can help to improve sexual function, soothe inflammation and boost circulation. The remaining fiv...

Researchers Stunned to Discover Ancient Crocodiles That Walked on Two Legs

Some species of ancient crocodiles of more than three metres in length, walked on its two hind legs as if they were dinosaurs. The researchers say the animal ...

Johnson & Johnson to begin human trials for potential COVID-19 vaccine

The vaccine, known as mRNA-1273, will be given in the 100 microgram dose level in the trial, which is being done in conjunction with the National Institute of A...

Drones help scientists monitor turtles off barrier reef

The group discovered, in the research conducted in December, that using drones to monitor green turtle activity was more accurate and much safer than using boat...

Britain poised to hit two months without power from coal plants

Use of renewable power soared over the lockdown period and May was the greenest ever month for electricity production in the UK. A decade ago about 40% of the...

Solar Eclipse 2020: Annular Solar Eclipse Will Be Visible On June 21

The annular eclipse will begin in the Democratic Republic of Congo at 4:45 UTC (12:45 PM ET) and sweep through South Sudan, Ethiopia, and Eritrea before crossin...

World Oceans Day celebrations look a little different this year

National Geographic said human activities affect almost all parts of the ocean and lost and discarded fishing nets continue to lethally snare fish, seabirds, an...

First American woman to walk in space makes historic dive

Sullivan and Victor L. Vescovo , a 54-year-old explorer and retired U.S. Navy officer funding the mission , remained at the Challenger Deep for about 90 mi...

Concerns oil spill from Siberia could reach Arctic Ocean

Russian authorities have charged the director of an Arctic power plant that leaked 20,000 tons of diesel fuel into the ecologically fragile region with violatin...

Small asteroid to safely fly by Earth

However, at this moment, there must be a lot of queries running in your head, which is understandable. The 2002 asteroid NN4 will pass through Earth on Satu...

Titan is drifting away

Even our Moon floats away from Earth a tiny bit each year. Saturn is orbited by 82 moons, and tidal friction within the giant planet causes the moons to mig...

Dutch start mink cull after virus infections

The cull at a mink farm in southern Netherlands, the epicentre of the country's outbreak, was due to have started earlier but two animal rights groups tried t...

Drone helps researchers count turtles at Raine Island on Great Barrier Reef

They usually turn up to Raine Island at around this time of year and create the world's largest rookery - which is the technical term for "turtles" nesting site...

SpaceX: Starship Will Be The Top Priority Spaceship From The Company

In fact, several earlier iterations of the rocket have failed and been completely destroyed during testing, when the rockets were filled with inert liquid nitro...