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UAE - JAPAN UAE launches first ever Mars mission

The launch was delayed again as the weather on Tanegashima Island continued to be unstable. Most Mars missions orbit at a single local time that allows th...

A planet-forming disc torn apart

The central triple stars are not visible in this image. Starting in 2008, the researchers, who hail from the UK, Belgium, Chile, France and the USA, studied t...

Zack Snyder's 'Army of the Dead' Universe Expanding

Schweighöfer will be directing and starring in the film prequel, which will centre around his character, Ludwig Dieter. Originally conceived back in 2008 as a s...

Earth blamed as rust found on Moon in solar surprise

Yet, scientists now think that the Earth's oxygen has been rusting the Moon for billions of years. Li is an assistant researcher at the Hawai'i Institute of Geo...

Sea level rise from ice sheets track worst-case climate change scenario

A study from the University of Leeds and the Danish Meteorological Institute found that if current trends continue, a further 17cm of sea level rise could occu...

JEE-Mains conducted across country amid 'new normal'

The JEE Main 2020 BTech paper is being conducted in two slots - from 9 am to 12 pm and from 3 pm to 6 pm - in examination centres across the country. Students...

New Guinea singing dog sighted in the wild after 50 years

National Human Genome Research Institute . The team suggests that the Highland Wild Dogs have genome sequences that New Guinea signing dogs lost while in capt...

First egg ever found in Antarctica may come from extinct sea lizard

The fossil, which looks like a deflated American football, was kept in a Chilean museum and was nicknamed The Thing . David Rubilar-Rogers had spent much o...

Booster rocket for Nasa Moon missions given critical test

Two of these boosters form part of Nasa's massive Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, the biggest launcher built since the Saturn V in the 1960s. NASA also tw...

Old NASA Satellite spotted coming towards Earth on an Impact Trajectory!

It was found upon closer inspection that the object was NASA's Orbiting Geophysics Observatory 1 (OGO-1) and was not an asteroid. Here is what you need to kno...

New type of black hole detected in massive collision

The LIGO and Virgo detectors recently observed a black hole merger with a final mass of 142 times that of the sun, making it the largest of its kind observed ...

Face shields and valve masks are 'ineffective' claims new study

Increasingly people are using clear plastic face shields and masks with exhalation valves instead of regular cloth or surgical masks, since they can be more com...

Tonight’s Full Corn Moon Is Not to Be Missed

The last full moon of the summer is set to appear in the night sky across the US Tuesday. It will look its biggest and brightest Tuesday night (99% full), Wed...

Hurricane Laura Becoming An "Unsurvivable Storm Surge"

According to the NHC , Laura will continue to deliver hurricane-force winds to central and northern Louisiana throughout the day on Thursday. While the storm i...

Trump says not one complaint about Hurricane Laura response

Who's going to get this one? He then passed his autograph to a police officer and said: "Sell this on eBay tonight, you'll get $10,000". Numerous items pu...

Asteroid over 22 meters in diameter to pass by Earth on Tuesday

The closest any known asteroid is going to get to the Earth will be over a decade later in 2032. "Will #asteroid 2011 ES4 hit Earth? No! Planetary defence exp...

Trump visits Texas, Louisiana to survey hurricane damage

While the storm surge has receded and the cleanup effort has begun, hundreds of thousands remain without power or water, many without a roof over their heads. T...

There's Going To Be A Full Corn Moon Visible This Week

EDT. "The Moon will appear full for about three days around this time, from Monday evening through Thursday morning". We get full moons every month but some...

Japan’s manned, hydrogen-powered lunar rover to be called LUNAR CRUISER

Considering the harsh environment, the exploration team will face up there; both the Toyota and JAXA want to ensure the best quality reliability, and durabili...

NASA Astronauts Aboard SpaceX's Mission Land In Gulf Of Mexico

According to reports, the capsule parachuted into the water about 40 miles off the coast of Pensacola. The crew's retrieval from Crew Dragon was delayed sligh...

California-based Rocket Lab says latest launch successful

The organization's Electron rocket-propelled a 100 kg (220 pounds) Earth perception satellite from its office on the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand at 11:05 PM ...

Hurricane Laura: Oil hits five-month high on fears of 'catastrophic damage'

Its home county, Jefferson, enacted a mandatory evacuation order on Tuesday, with exemptions for essential workers at the refinery and elsewhere. Lina Hidal...

More than 20 states sue over Trump changes to key environmental law

California and Washington were joined in the lawsuit by 19 other Democratic-led states, the District of Columbia, Guam, the city of New York, Harris County, Tex...

SpaceX postpones launch of satellites from Starlink project

This mission marks SpaceX's initially start to a polar orbit from the East Coastline, and the initially polar start from Florida in decades.Falcon 9's initial...

Largest supermoon of 2020 rises over a world battling COVID-19

As the moon was at its closet point to Earth all year, it appeared up to 30% larger than it looks when it's at its furthest point from the planet. The April f...

Flooding Begins in Coastal Louisiana as Category 4 Hurricane Laura Approaches

The risk for a few tornadoes should continue into Thursday across Louisiana, Arkansas, and western Mississippi. Even after landfall, the storms' remnants are ...

Thousands to evacuate Texas and Louisiana coasts ahead of storm

The National Hurricane Center kept raising its estimate of Laura's storm surge, from 3 metres just days ago to twice that size - a height that forecasters sai...

New Study Reveals How Cold The Last Ice Age Was

Scientists have a lot of data about this period, but one issue remained unknown. Scientists from the University of Arizona have revealed how cold the last i...

Amcor signs up to US Plastics PactPlastics in Packaging

Pact, activators like Henkel and L'Oréal United States of America recognize that significant, systemwide change is imperative to realize a circular economy fo...

Study proposes new origin theory for Earth's water — Blue planet

The researchers used special procedures to analyze the meteorites, including gently heating their samples for several days to remove any Earth water that cont...