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Where to watch meteor shower in UAE next week

People can view the meteors streaming across the sky anywhere away from downtown Lawrence. At best, a typical Perseid meteor shower produces 80 to a few hun...

Perseid meteor shower to peak over Canada this weekend

If you're planning on watching the Perseid meteor shower, bear in mind that it will take at least 30 minutes for your eyes to adjust to the darkness. Individu...

State farm organisations welcome $190m Federal drought support package

Several fundraising campaigns have sprung up around the country to try and help farmers buy food for their livestock. The first families to get the cash will ...

Tropical storm Debby strengthens in Atlantic but is expected to weaken soon

The center of the storm will pass between 100 and 150 miles south of South Point sometime during the day on Wednesday, according to the Central Pacific Hurrica...

County Preparing for Hurricane Hector

At 8 a.m. Wednesday, the storm was packing maximum sustained winds of 120 miles per hour, with occasional higher gusts. Hector's winds dropped to 125 mph ...

Astronomers Discover Incredible Magnetism in Rogue Planet - NOVA Next

A weird rogue planet without a star is roaming the Milky Way just 20 light-years from the Sun. The massive planet is 20 light years away from Earth. The objec...

NASA announces first astronaut crew to ride SpaceX, Boeing spaceships

The race to get astronauts to the space station first is real; a US flag that flew on the first space shuttle flight in 1981 and the last shuttle flight in 2011...

Newest SpaceX booster flies again with Indonesia satellite

Interested in SpaceX? Add SpaceX as an interest to stay up to date on the latest SpaceX news, video, and analysis from ABC News. SpaceX only had a two-hour la...

NASA announces crew for commercial spaceships

NASA has been paying billions of dollars to SpaceX and Boeing to develop the crew capsules to pick up where the shuttles left off, while also paying billion...

Plastic bag backlash: Coles to hand out free reusable bags 'indefinitely'

But on Wednesday Coles said the change in habit had proven to be "big and difficult" for customers and it meant to hand out its thick, reusable plastic bags f...

NASA announces astronauts for first commercial spaceflights from U.S.

NASA said the spacecraft returned to Earth with more than 3,800 pounds (more than 1,700 kilograms) of cargo, including specimens from biological experiments co...

FUEL EFFICIENCY: Trump proposes rollback of Obama's clean auto rules

The proposal itself estimates it could cost tens of thousands of jobs - auto workers who deal with making vehicles more fuel efficient. "It also relies on fre...

Next Month, NASA Will Be Declaring Crew Members For SpaceX And Boeing

The agency released the revised schedule with little fanfare ahead of a planned August 3 announcement at the Johnson Space Center of the astronauts that will fl...

Trump’s clean auto rollback will cost the US $457 billion

The proposal from EPA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration outlines a series of options for the vehicle rules. The prospect of an extend...

Don't call dolphin hybrid spotted off Hawaii a 'wholphin'

But, it was a biopsy that confirmed their suspicions. An animal that appears to be a hybrid of a rough-toothed dolphin and a melon-headed whale was spotted of...

Hubble snaps stunning near-opposition portraits of Mars and Saturn

Coinciding with this, researchers with the Italian Space Agency announced on Wednesday their discovery of a large reservoir of liquid salt water underneath the ...

Mars makes closest approach to Earth in 15 years

The last time it came so close was on August 28, 2003, when it was within 55.76 million kilometres of Earth, according to EarthSky - and that was the closest ...

Lunar eclipse clocks in at more than 6 hours

The "totality" period, where light from the Moon was totally obscured, lasted for one hour, 43 minutes, but the partial eclipse before and after the total p...

"Blood Moon" or longest total lunar eclipse of the century this Friday

The partial eclipse will be seen around 11.54pm on Friday, while the total eclipse will be visible around 1am on Saturday. The entire event lasts closer to four...

Watch The Longest Lunar Eclipse Of The Century Here

He said the eclipse went for a "long" 104 minutes mainly because it "went through the centre of the shadow , [meaning] it had a longer path that it had to ta...

Longest lunar eclipse: Mars coming closest ever to Earth in 15 years

The entrance is free and visitors will get custom bracelets. Those parts of the Moon closer to the edge of the Umbra often appear somewhat brighter and more yel...

SpaceX ready to launch Iridium for seventh time, aims for double recovery

Iridium is also the only satellite communications network to cover the entire globe keeping track of objects participating in the internet of things (IoT). " I...

How To Watch The Longest Lunar Eclipse Of The Century

The next lunar eclipse of such a length is due in 2123. This can occur only when the Sun, Earth, and the Moon are aligned exactly or very closely so, with the...

How to watch the July 2018 "blood moon" online

Do note that the time of the maximum eclipse is 1.51 am, so if you want to see the blood moon in full glory try to stay awake till then. The eclipse wil...

Flooding downpours continue the next few days, Wednesday likely the wettest day

The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood watch for Berks County until Wednesday morning as a drenching weather pattern continues to inundate th...

Lunar eclipse: Rare 'blood moon' will be visible in the United Kingdom tonight

Tonight the Red Planet will shine bright as it will be at opposition , sandwiched between the sun and Earth. The next total lunar eclipse will happen on ...

Scientists find first persistent water source on Mars

The lake was discovered in the Planum Australe region using the MARSIS ( Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding ) instrument. Today, t...

How to see this weekend’s blood moon lunar eclipse

Pastor Begley also referred to the frequency of natural disasters as being linked to the Blood Moon . The lunar event will be seen across Ireland and the...

South to see special blood moon

That's a full 1 hour 43 minutes, which is just four minutes shy of the longest total lunar eclipse possible, according to EarthSky . NASA , meanwhile, has...

How to see Mars opposition and blood moon eclipse with no telescope

Due to the different orbits that Earth and Mars take around the sun , they will not reach their closest point to each other until July 31. Of course, you wil...

Longest Lunar Eclipse of the Century

A " Blood Moon " occurs when the moon lines up with the Earth and sun, with the Earth's atmosphere refracting the light onto the moon causing it to turn red. He...

USA to propose revoking California authority to set auto emissions rules

The Environmental Protection Agency's acting administrator Andrew Wheeler said on Tuesday that the agency wanted a "50-state solution" to the nation's vehicle ...

Vast Lake Of Liquid Water Discovered On Mars

Planetary scientists have been embarked on a quest to find liquid water on the red planet , because life as we know it can not survive without water to act as ...

How to watch Blood Moon and Mars at opposition online this week

As it lines up with the Earth and sun, the rising full moon will darken and change from silver to rusty or terrible blood red. The longest total lunar eclips...

Researchers spot what looks like a standing ‘lake’ of water on Mars

The body of water is about 20 kilometres across and, if confirmed , would be the first evidence of permanent water on the Red Planet. But researchers are exc...