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NWS: Dust from Sahara Desert may impact our air quality, sunsets
This air layer is common from late spring through early fall and frequently makes the 5,000 mile journey across the Atlantic Ocean. Dust from the Sahara Deser...
"Ring of fire" solar eclipse observed in Iran
These include Dehradun, Kurukshetra, Chamoli, Joshimath, Sirsa and Suratgarh. An overcast sky didn't deter enthusiasts in India with the partial eclipse also ...
Vast ocean under Pluto's surface raises fresh hopes of extraterrestrials, study suggests
In a hot-start scenario versus a cold-start scenario then, scientists would expect different surface features generated by different tectonics. "Instead, Plut...
Saharan dust heading to Virginia later this week
Although it is not unheard of for Saharan dust to cross the Atlantic - it's a regular natural phenomenon, and a visible plume reaches the Americas every few yea...
‘Ring of fire’ solar eclipse witnessed across Pakistan
A solar eclipse is when the moon passes directly between the sun and the Earth. In Nairobi, east Africa, observers saw only a partial eclipse as clouds bloc...
LIGO and Virgo find a mystery object in the "mass gap"
So either way, it's not something astronomers have ever seen before - and in fact, it could represent an entirely new class of dense, compact objects. Blue are ...
Black hole swallows much smaller mysterious object
Analysis of the gravitational wave signal has revealed that the larger of the two merging objects - interpreted as a black hole - was 23 solar masses. So fa...
Powerful quake shakes southern, central Mexico, 1 dead
About 200 houses in the area were hit, including 30 that were badly damaged, a local official said . Quakes of magnitudes over 7 are major earthquakes capa...
Tropical Storm Dolly forms over the north Atlantic
The Tropical Storm is moving toward the east-northeast near 13 miles per hour (20 km/h) and this motion is expected to continue for next couple of days with s...
Falcon 9 launch from the Cape pushed back | NewsRadio WFLA
Those looking to try out SpaceX's Internet service may register through Starlink's website . This is the tenth batch of Starlink satellites, bringing the total...
Saharan dust expected to hit Cayman by Wednesday
The dust may reach the USA next week. In addition, the NOAA confirmed that another dust plume branching from the cloud is covering the east Atlantic regio...
Virgin Galactic +18% after new NASA deal
Also worth noting is that Virgin Galactic will be procuring and training private astronauts including individual citizens, as well as government-sponsored scien...
Coronavirus already in Italy in Dec 2019, say researchers
The first local case reported in Italy (an infected case with no travel history to a country where there is an outbreak) was recorded in the town of Codogno i...
Antarctica mystery: Origins of 'The Thing' fossil unravelled by scientists
A group of Chilean scientists discovered a mysterious football-sized fossil in Antarctica in 2011 and named it 'The Thing .' It was placed in a Chilean museu...
Feast your eyes on Hubble’s latest entrancing images of two planetary nebulae
The Butterfly Nebula , officially designated NGC 6302 , is among the most complex and fascinating celestial bodies studied by astronomers . Most stars ar...
Tom Cruise is definitely shooting a movie in space, NASA confirms
After first getting word last night , NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has now confirmed that Tom Cruise ( Top Gun: Maverick; Mission: Impossible - F...
Virus already in Italy by December, sewers show
The results found that the waters of two of the largest cities in the hard-hit northern regions - Milan and Turin - contained genetic traces of the virus on Dec...
Solar Eclipse 2020: Do's and Don'ts during Surya Grahan on June 21st
On June 21, " Annular Solar Eclipse " will be observable in the region covering Central African Republic, Congo, Ethiopia, Northern India , China and Sothern P...
Ted Cruz challenges ‘Hellboy’ Ron Perlman to wrestle Jim Jordan; more
We abstain from judging who was the better Hellboy . "You wouldn't be tweeting about me if my message weren't true & effective". 'You're right.I only PLAY scu...
New Research Shows Milky Way Could Have 36 Alien Civilizations
It is also possible that we are the only civilisation within our galaxy unless the survival times of civilisations like our own are long, according to the res...
Antarctica's 'deflated football' fossil is world's second-biggest egg
Other fossils found at the same site suggest the egg could have belonged to a giant marine reptile called a mosasaur, although it is unclear whether the egg w...
NASA's next Mars rover honors medical teams fighting virus
A two-year delay could add another $500 million (roughly Rs. 3,807 crores) to the almost $3 billion (roughly Rs. 22,845 crores) mission. "It had to be done righ...
Elon Musk developing floating spaceports to take humans to Moon, Mars
The SpaceX head also confirmed the listing on his personal Twitter page yesterday. "SpaceX is building floating, superheavy-class spaceports for Mars, moon ...
SpaceX and Tom Cruise is a match made in space
Musk and SpaceX have yet to confirm their involvement in the film venture, but Musk responded to Bridenstine's tweet to say the project "should be a lot of fu...
Unilever to invest 1 bln euros in climate fund over 10 years
Under the plan, the Anglo-Dutch company said it intends to set up a new system where suppliers are required to declare the carbon footprint of the goods and s...
Star Wars Celebration 2020 Cancelled Due To Covid-19
Due to the global impact of the COVID-19 virus and in speaking with local and state authorities on the latest public health guidelines related to indoor convent...
A Rare "Ring of Fire" Solar Eclipse Will Be Visible This Weekend
An annular solar eclipse will occur when the angular diameter of the Moon falls short of that of the Sun so that it can not cover up the latter completely. If...
Our galaxy may have more than 30 intelligent alien civilizations
The average distance to an alien civilization is calculated to be around 17,000 light-years. Conselice's team thinks that aliens may just be too far away to ...
Coronavirus: Steroid dexamethasone can help save worst-hit patients
For patients on ventilators, the risk of death dropped from 40% to 28%, and for those on oxygen it dropped from 25% to 20%. No treatment for COVID-19 - the di...
Curiosity Spots Earth and Venus from Martian Surface | Space Exploration
During the day, glare occurs when sunlight shakes atmospheric molecules and atoms such as nitrogen and oxygen. This is because our planet has a bright surface...