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NOAA's Winter Outlook favors a warmer than average season across Mid

New England is in for a warmer-than-average winter, if the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's predictions are correct. The La Niña ocean-atmosp...

Winning snaps from Wildlife Photographer of Year awards

The photograph was taken using a camera trap, which triggers when a tiger walks by. The Siberian tiger, also known as the Amur tiger, is a subspecies of the b...

Skywatch: A visit from the red planet

Peach said, "Even at nine or 10 o'clock in the evening, you'll easily see it over in the southeast". The U.S. launched a six-wheeled Rover called Perseverance;...

'Very high risk' defunct Russian satellite and Chinese rocket body will collide

If a collision was to occur, it would be shortly before 2pm , over the Weddell Sea off Antarctica. Californian company LeoLabs has been monitoring the old sa...

Winners of Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020

The Embrace . Grand Title Winner and Animals in their Environment Winner: A tigress hugs an ancient Manchurian fir, rubbing her cheek against the bark to leave ...

NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 mission: Launch delayed till November, according to reports

The extra time will allow SpaceX to resolve an unexpected observation during a recent non-NASA launch attempt, said the mission leader. Following the Demo-2's...

Pandemic emissions drop largest in modern history, study finds

It also suggests what fundamental steps could be taken to stabilize the global climate in the aftermath of the pandemic. Zhu Liu from the Department of Earth ...

NASA delays launch of Crew Dragon’s first four-astronaut flight

A seat on the SpaceX capsule is expected to cost $ 55 million, including funding from NASA to build its new Crew Dragon spacecraft. "Does." NASA did not identif...

Looking at the Skies: Mars comes in opposition

When Mars and the sun align with the earth in the middle, the red planet is said to be in opposition. October 2020 will be all about the glory of Mars as ...

Great Barrier Reef Has Lost Over 50 Percent of its Coral

Andy Dietzel, from the ARC Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (CoralCoE), released a statement saying that there are many studies on the changes in t...

Mars at biggest and brightest tonight!

So, did you spot Mars? Look toward the south-southwest at sunset to see Jupiter. It should be visible most of the night. As NASA says , "Just go outside and ...

Eight countries agree to not fight and litter while exploring the moon

But the ISS is nearing the end of its life, probably by 2030, and NASA has unilaterally launched a lunar exploration program without prior consultation with R...

NASA Announces Eight-Nation Space Coalition Under Artemis Accords

Russian Federation is also missing from the list - Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Russia's space program, made it clear that he is not a fan of the accords or of N...

Falcon 9 Glitch Pushes Crew Dragon ISS Mission to November

SpaceX and NASA appeared all set to kick off a new era in spaceflight later this month, with the Crew-1 mission to the International Space Station scheduled for...

Russian-US trio of astronauts launches to the International Space Station

Kate Rubins of NASA , together with Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of Roscosmos , lifted off on Russia's Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft from the Baikonur Co...

United Nations: Climate Change almost doubled major natural disasters since 2000

In its recently-released report " The Human Cost of Disasters 2000-2019" the UNDRR notes that there have been 7, 348 major disaster events between 2000 and 20...

Next Crew Dragon launch slips into November

NASA astronaut Kate Rubins is using NASA's last now contracted Soyuz seat next week, joining two Russian cosmonauts for a flight to the International Space Stat...

NLCS Recap: Braves Ambush Dodgers Late For Game 1 Win

First pitch for NLCS game 2 is scheduled for 3:05 PM PT on FS1. Major League Baseball announced that it would host fans in the stands as the Atlanta Braves ...

Tiger King's Doc Antle Charged With Wildlife Trafficking

The animal trainer was finally charged after a many-month investigation that revealed that Antle trafficked lion cubs between Virginia and SC. It's been repor...

Mark Meadows Storms Off, Refuses to Talk to Reporters After One Asks Him to Wear a Mask

In a somewhat hectic exchange with the press Meadows chose to " pull away " the stationary microphone to supposedly get " more than ten feet away " from the re...

New 'asteroid' may instead be an old moon rocket

He added: "The object that is heading towards the earth was orbiting the sun, which is unusual for an asteroid, and it is at the same level of the earth, and it...

Telescopes Record Last Moments of Star Devoured by a Black Hole

This handout picture released by The European Southern Observatory on October 12, 2020, shows an illustration depicting a star (in the foreground) experiencing ...

Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to discoverers of CRISPR-Cas9

Many (hereditary) diseases in humans could be a thing of the past with this technique. Professor Doudna and her collaborator and co-awardee, Professor Emma...

Remnants of Delta to bring heavy rain overnight

Onshore flow will keep things cool and wet for the remainder of the day, though, with temperatures stuck in the low to mid-60s and lots of light rain and drizzl...

Mars to Shine Brightest on October 13

The nearly frontal illumination by sunlight will make its reddish colour much better seen from both hemispheres with or without the aid of a telescope. Previous...

Mars shines brightly during'opposite' in October

It is visible for most of the night. "This is the time of year where we all get a little bit sad as the days get shorter and it starts to get dark early, but ...

This Forearm Artery Shows Our Species Is Still Evolving — Human Evolution

According to the researchers, this arterial microevolution joins a handful of examples that demonstrate how human anatomy is changing over time, including the a...

NASA heralds 'new era' of human spaceflight — NASA SpaceX launch

Just before liftoff, Hurley said , " SpaceX , we're go for launch ". SpaceX will also be live-streaming the event on its YouTube channel , so all future astr...

Quebec risks cancelling surgeries as COVID-19 hospitalizations on the rise

Three deaths were reported in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said today, while 14 earlier deaths are now believed to be linked to the novel coronavirus....

Musk's vehicle launched into space flew near Mars

Debut launches of new rockets are unsafe things, which discloses why SpaceX chose to put Starman and the Roadster on board the main Falcon Heavy takeoff as a ...