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Designed perfume to bring smell of outer space to earth

Discovery pilot Dominic "Tony" Antonelli told Space Magazine that space "definitely has a smell that's different than anything else". We've all had space ice ...

NASA Designed A Vibrating Necklace To Help You Stop Touching Your Face

However, it's not always easy to avoid that reflex. Yanko Design said that NASA isn't selling these directly, but if you have a 3D printer you can make one ...

Russian Cosmonaut Votes on Putin's Reforms From ISS

Election officials opened polling stations last week to avoid overcrowding outside voting booths that could lead to an increase in virus infections. Voting st...

Snakes can glide through the air -- and this is how

For their investigate revealed in the journal Character Physics , experts from Virginia Tech set motion-seize tags on seven snakes and filmed them with superio...

Massive Variable Star Mysteriously Disappears from Distant Dwarf Galaxy | Astronomy

When the big ones die, they go out with a bang, so to speak, so when astronomers made a decision to check in on what they believed was a large star in the Kinm...

Big shooting star show set to light up our self-iso lives

In the early hours of Wednesday morning, Kiwis will be treated to an impressive meteor shower. This includes Australia, New Zealand, Africa and South America....

Flu strain with pandemic potential found in pigs in China

As the world sputters amid a global coronavirus pandemic that may have originated from bats in China, researchers released a study on Monday indicating that pig...

Air Force GPS satellite

The backup launch opportunity will be on Wednesday at 3:51 p.m., but the weather is expected to be only 40 percent favorable with a higher chance of rain or obs...

California Golden State Killer's Hearing Took Place in a Ballroom

Visalia is 10 miles away from Exeter. The Vietnam War veteran spent six years in law enforcement before he was sacked for shoplifting dog repellent and a hammer...

Democratic panel to float climate plan ahead of November election

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., calls for dramatic steps to virtually eliminate US greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 with a goal of meeting "100% of the power ...

SpaceX postpones launch of Starlink satellites indefinitely

This is another rideshare mission for SpaceX, organized under the program it introduced past year, which allows smaller operators to book rides on missions as p...

South Pole is Warming Three Times Faster Than the Rest of the Earth

The South Pole has been warming at more than three times the global average over the past 30 years, a new study has found. The warm ocean temperatures in the ...

Spacewalking astronaut loses mirror, newest space junk

Astronaut Chris Cassidy (Chris Cassidy) lost mirror during a spacewalk to fix the ISS. Wrist mirrors are used by astronauts to read displays and examine place...

Astronaut admits to losing mirror while on spacewalk

NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy on Saturday tweeted a cool shot showing SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft docked with the International Space Station (ISS). The ba...

South Pole warming three times faster than rest of Earth

Dr Kyle Clem, a researcher at Victoria University of Wellington, and lead study author, said: "While temperatures were known to be warming across West Antarct...

NASA's 10-year time-lapse of Sun leaves netizens awestruck

The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument, for instance, takes a snapshot in 10 different wavelengths of light every 12 seconds. "This information has...

Canada's 1st 'presumptive' case of new coronavirus discovered in Toronto

The coronavirus transmission ability is getting stronger and infections could continue to rise, China's National Health Commission said on Sunday . The sourc...

NASA unbelievable releases 10-year lapse of the sun

In the upcoming years, SDO and other NASA missions will continue to watch the Sun, providing further insights about "our place in space " and information to ke...

First Warning Forecast: Tracking summertime heat and storms

Some storms may be pulse-like in nature that produce torrential rainfall, gusty outflow wind gusts, small hail and frequent lightning. See 5% probability for se...

NASA releases incredible 10-year time lapse of the Sun

Till the end of the decade, SDO had utilised total of 20 million GB of space to capture 435 million high resolution images of the Sun, NASA reports. With all ...

Coronavirus Traces Found in March 2019 Sewage Sample: Spanish Study

Italian scientists have also said they found COVID-19 genetic material present in sewage months before the virus turned northern Italy into the global COVID-1...

NASA unveils 10 years of solar activity in stunning time lapse video

They were shot in an extreme ultraviolet range of the spectrum well suited for studying the corona, the outermost layer of solar atmosphere. The SDA mission o...

'Lunar Loo' challenge asks people to help astronauts poop on the Moon

NASA is working with three companies - SpaceX , Blue Origin , Dynetics - for the "Human Landing System" or lander of its Moon mission. The United States s...

Space tourists to make 1st spacewalk in history

Energia has inked a contract with Space Adventures, which promises to take two space tourists to the International Space Station that year. The candidat...

Penumbral Lunar Eclipse On July 5: Everything You Need To Know

Star gazers , get ready, because there's going to be a stunning full buck moon and a penumbral lunar eclipse taking place this weekend. The penumbra being fai...

Astronomers spot blast of light from black holes for first time

The merging of the two cosmic beasts was reported after a gravitational wave dubbed S190521g was detected in May 2019 by the twin Laser Interferometer Gravi...

This is how to see the largest 'pink' supermoon of the year

The moon's closeness to Earth, naturally, makes it look extra-close and extra-bright - up to 14% bigger and 30% brighter than a full moon at its farthest point ...

NASA video shows 10-year time lapse of Sun in 61 minutes

In the stunning video, titled " A Decade of Sun ", astronomers compiled 425 million high-definition images of the sun , snapped once every 0.75 seconds between...

CCC recognises hydrogen for a clean, net-zero economy

Responding to the report Vattenfall UK country manager Danielle Lane said: "The UK is going to need a wide mix of low-carbon and renewable heat and power if it ...

SpaceX set to launch tenth batch of Starlink satellites

Because of the new launch time, it will NOT now be visible as it passes over the UK. If all goes well, the launch is set to kickoff at 4:18pm at Kennedy Space...