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Ancient reptile died after dining on fellow titan

The ichthyosaur specimen with its stomach contents visible as a block that extrudes from its body. Ichthyosaurs have blunt teeth, but because there was no dir...

Met Service says rainfall across the island due to tropical depression

It is possible we will have two tropical storms in the Gulf of Mexico early next week. The NHC adds that Depression 13 will strengthen into a tropical storm s...

International Space Station Crew Look For Source Of Cabin Air Leak

Three crew members - NASA's Chris Cassidy and Russia's Ivan Vagner and Anatoly Ivanishin - on the International Space Station will spend the weekend in the ve...

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Killer cosmic rays from neighboring supernovae could be the culprit behind at least one mass extinction event. While previous studies showed radiation effects...

Plastic pollution: Atlantic plastic levels far higher than thought

Earth's oceans contain an estimated 150 million tonnes of plastic, often in the form of microplastic particles. A study published by the journal Nature Com...

SpaceX astronauts dock with International Space Station after historic launch

As part of the launch , the first stage of the Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket successfully landed on the company's drone ship, appropriately named Of Course I Still L...

Citizen Scientists Find 95 Brown Dwarfs in Our Cosmic Neighborhood

The small white orb represents the white dwarf (the remnant of a long-dead Sun-like star), while the brown/orange foreground object is the newly discovered brow...

Zone of Low Magnetic Intensity Causes Concern for NASA

It is to be noted that the magnetic field around the Earth acts as a protective shield and this shield is responisble for repelling and trapping charged particl...

Tiny Near-Earth Asteroid Makes Closest Fly-By of Earth on Record | Astronomy

If it had been on a collision course with Earth, the asteroid - named 2020 QG - would likely not have caused any damage, instead disintegrating in the atmosph...

Catholics vs. COVID: Notre Dame Closes Campus

Two commuting students also reported they have tested positive. None of the people who tested positive were hospitalized, and all but one were students. SU in...

SpaceX Launches 100th Mission, Breaking Falcon 9 Rocket Reuse Record

The Falcon 9 flight was SpaceX's 100th mission and mostly carried Starlink satellites, the company's own broadband platform. The video - which many are debati...

New study says flushing public urinals can spread COVID-19 virus

Sure, they're one of the few ways you can wash your hands while on the go, but public bathrooms are also full of potential contamination possibilities in the ...

World temperature record set in California's Death Valley

Usually, the West and southwestern U.S. experience the North American monsoon during this time of year, said Daniel Berc, warning coordination meteorologist for...

Why NASA Is Tracking The 'Dent' In Earth's Magnetic Field

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) scientists have been tracking a odd, growing dent in the earth's magnetic field over South America an...

Trump Administration Moves To Sell Arctic Wildlife Refuge Oil Leases By Year-End

The ANWR leasing program is required by law in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act , which was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump on Dece...

Asteroid near-miss - 'We didn't see it coming' says NASA

NASA may have updated its plan to protect the planet from asteroid strikes, but a space rock the size of a pickup truck zipped past the planet at a distance of ...

Forecasters watching two systems in the Atlantic expected to form within days

The wave closest to the US right now is in the eastern Caribbean Sea. The National Hurricane Center is closely monitoring a broad area of low pressure locat...

'Sad, Lonely, Cold Place': When Will The Universe End?

Currently, supernovae are explosive finales that are reserved for massive stars. "It's known as 'heat death, ' where the universe will be mostly black holes a...

Researchers found a "gamma-ray heartbeat" connecting two cosmic spaces

A team of scientists from Spain, Germany, the U.S., and China, rigorously examined more than 10 years of data from NASA's Fermi gamma-ray space telescope, gaz...

American physicist calculates conclude of the universe in new investigate

Even black holes will eventually "evaporate". He also revealed the way in which white stars will become black dwarfs. "Stars less than about ten times the mas...

Increasing chances of Laura and Marco developing this week

Its quick pace will keep it from developing today and tomorrow as it moves through the Windward and southern Leeward Islands and into the eastern Caribbean. And...

Successful placement: Ariane rocket puts telecom satellites into orbit

Since kicking off a continuous improvement program for Ariane 5 in 2016, prime contractor ArianeGroup has increased the launcher's payload capacity by 300 kg....

Amy Schumer is quitting IVF: 'I can't be pregnant ever again'

However, if Amy and Chris are to give their one-year-old baby boy Gene a sibling, it would have to be through alternative means. "I don't think I could ever d...

China's new spacecraft returns to Earth

The Long March-5B made its maiden flight on Tuesday, sending the trial version of China's new-generation manned spaceship and a cargo return capsule for test in...

China virus death toll rises to 56, total cases near 2000

Earlier the city said it would stop cars, ships and people from entering the city starting on January 27 to help prevent the spread of a coronavirus that brok...

Perseid meteor shower shines in dark sky

The Perseid meteor shower will come all over just about every summer season. It receives its name for the reason that the meteors appear to be to originate ...

Stranded tanker breaks in two off the coast of Mauritius

The coast guard is the nodal body under India's National Oil Spill-Disaster Contingency Plan (NOS-DCP). A bulk carrier that ran aground off the island of Maur...

NOAA: Tropical Storm Kyle Track, Spaghetti Models

Airforce Reserve Hurricane Hunter indicates that Josephine's sustained winds are near 40 miles per hour, with higher wind gusts. NHC forecasters say that this...

Greenland ice reaches point of no return

He and his colleagues published the study Thursday in the Nature Communications Earth & Environment journal. 'What we've found is that the ice that's discha...

NASA Helicopter Recharges Batteries On Way To Mars

This was the first time the rotorcraft has been turned on since entering space at the end of July this year after its launch aboard a ULA Atlas V rocket. Imag...