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SpaceX wants to use its ships for Starlink satellite network

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Humanity at a crossroads, United Nations warns in new Global Biodiversity Outlook report

On the United Nations scorecard, Mike Barrett, Executive Director of Science and Conservation at WWF-UK said: "These findings, coming days after our Living Pl...

SCV Sheriff's Deputies Assisting Palmdale Station in Bobcat Fire

Only hours later, the Angeles National Forest Twitter account reported that the fire was within 500 feet of the observatory grounds and the dozen companies ...

Lego to ditch plastic bags after children call for change

In 2019, Hasbro announced that it would be phasing out all plastic packaging by 2022. He also added that children liked the paper bags as they were enviro...

Aliens: Search for life outside Earth may shift to Venus, says scientist

Astronomers have speculated for decades that life could exist in Venus's high clouds. The discovery is a big surprise, in part because Venus had been mostly w...

Wildfire smoke sends haze to East Coast

Eight people have died. "These numbers bear fruit to that assertion that this is historic", he said. With millions of acres across the West blackened by ...

At least 1 dead, hundreds rescued after Hurricane Sally

The storm battered the metropolitan areas of Mobile, Alabama , and Pensacola , Florida , which have a combined population of nearly one million. Hurricane...

Smoke blankets S.California due to wildfires

Officials from the observatory confirmed all personnel had been evacuated and added the fire was "knocking on our door". While no structures have been lost fr...

Astronomers Discover First Giant Exoplanet Orbiting Dead Star

Andrew Vanderburg, an assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said: "WD 1865 b somehow got very close to it's white dwarf a...

Vikings weren't who we thought

The study showed that during the Viking Age, "a foreign gene flow", spilled into Scandinavia from the south and east, and it shows what can be described as ch...

Astronomers confirm pair of space rocks just skimmed past Earth

But despite the rarity of the event, neither astroid posed a threat to the blue planet. And although this may seem a huge distance, this represents a mere qua...

NASA Confirms We've Officially Entered a Brand New Solar Cycle

The cycle is not at all well defined; there are times when the solar min stretches over several years, for example. A panel of global experts convened by NAS...

Scientists find world's oldest sperm in Myanmar amber

But normally it's only the hard calcified shells that remain, with softer tissues proving very rare. They believe these creatures lived on the coast as well a...

Google Eliminates Carbon Legacy, to be Carbon-Free by 2030

To commit to directly using only carbon-free energy all the time across its entire operations therefore means a huge undertaking, that will require the actual d...

A big chunk of Greenland's ice cap has broken off

Laure Meller , the spokesperson of Greenpeace , said that the findings were another alarm of the Arctic's rapid heating. Several of the models indicated that...

Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' Is in Serious Danger, New Research Confirms

Scientists estimate that glaciers will lose all ice in about 200 to 600 years. At their base are irreversible drifting ice racks that function as a strengt...

Watch the live Nissan Z Proto reveal tonight

The Z Proto blows up the current mold, bumper to bumper, celebrating the full breadth of Z history, from conception to events yet to happen. Billed as a "th...

Trump Set to Visit California to Assess Damage Done By Deadly Wildfires

Trump sparred with officials during his visit to California Monday over the cause of the wildfires and the best course moving forward to prevent them. Mill...

Astronomers Detect Potential Signs of Life on Venus

The global scientific team first spotted the phosphine using the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii and confirmed it using the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub...

Scientists spot potential sign of life in Venus atmosphere

The presence of phosphine remains "unexplained after exhaustive study", with "no now known abiotic production routes" in Venus's atmosphere, clouds, surface, or...

Scientists confounded by new findings on universe's mysterious dark matter

Dark matter accounts for approximately 85% of the matter in the Universe. The fact that these models get the big picture so right has been a strong argument in ...

Musk's SpaceX set for debut astronaut mission, renewing NASA's crewed launch program

Then, it'll dock and open the hatch around 2 hours later. SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule is scheduled to launch with two American astronauts on Wednesday from...

Man arrested for vandalising Winston Churchill statue during Extinction Rebellion protest

The extinction rebellion admitted in a petition sent on Tuesday that it was taking "quite a bit of sternness" and asked celebrity supporters to post videos in...

More small-scale dark matter gravitational lenses than expected in galaxy clusters

The three inset images magnify three separate galaxies within the cluster, which appear to be producing gravitational lenses far stronger than they should be. B...

Washington voters urged to ignore absentee ballot suggestions from Postal Service postcard

Colorado is one of five states that conducts elections predominantly by mail, sending ballots to all registered voters without them having to request one. In Wa...

Tom Cruise might shoot a movie in space

News of the picture broke in May, as NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstein confirmed the extraterrestrial enterprise in a subsequent tweet. Cruise has physical...

All eyes on the Gulf; storm impacts possible next week

The tropical activity continues with two named storms, Paulette and Rene. Paulette is expected to become a hurricane sometime on Saturday. "On the forecast trac...

Asteroid will pass through the Earth on September 14, 2012ql2

However, despite this, the probability of this asteroid colliding with the earth is extremely low. NASA has categorically confirmed the space rock will not hit ...

See a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch and a new landing from Assam

Nearly simultaneously, after a rare abortion Then Ignition of the engine, ETD is scheduled for September 18 before 12:30 a.m., the third launch attempt (NET) ...

NASA seeking companies to help mine the moon

And it's starting with a request for moon dirt and rocks. Therefore, the companies who are ready for this task will get a small amount of money from NASA. The...