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EPA to California: You're also 'failing' to meet water pollution standards

On Thursday, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler wrote a letter to California Governor Gavin Newsom listing California's failure 't...

Get ready for the 'super worm equinox moon'

What made this Equinox Full Moon so rare, though, is that it was also a perigee " Supermoon " - a Full Moon that occurs when the Moon is near, or at, its clos...

The Latest IPCC Report Is An Alarm For The World's Oceans

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. According to experts, sea levels are rising extremely fast . Sea levels could rise by a meter and force millions o...

Jaguars' Jalen Ramsey: 'My trade request still stands'

According to CBS Sports NFL Insider Jason La Canfora, the Jaguars are attempting to get two first-round picks in return for Ramsey , but other general manage...

Hundreds of thousands of Canadians participate in climate protests

Young people had to act, 14-year-old Armand Headland said, arguing that inaction would see the planet transformed into an uninhabitable wasteland. Thousands a...

New visual depicts black hole's gravity

Tidal disruptions are incredibly rare, occurring once every 10,000 to 100,000 years in a galaxy the size of our own Milky Way . The observations were publish...

Chandrayaan-2 orbiter performing well, national committee to analyse what went wrong

The images captured by LROC also do not pinpoint Vikram lander's location but it is possible that it "is hiding in shadow", said NASA. The photos shared by NA...

NASA Visualization Shows a Black Hole's Warped World

Observing the oscillation of light as the black hole gobbles the star and spews stellar material in an outward spiral could help astronomers understand the blac...

‘Thank you’, says ISRO to all who stood by mission

However, just when it was within touching distance from landing on the Moon surface it lost communication with the ground stations. Today, an orbiter operated b...

It's Official! Suspected Interstellar Comet Borisov Is from Beyond Our Solar System

The 2I represents that it's the second interstellar object to be spotted in our solar system.It is named after the astronomer who first spotted the object on ...

EPA threatens to withhold funds from California over air quality

California officials denied that and noted that they were able to strike a deal in July with four major automakers - BMW, Ford, Honda and Volkswagen - for a c...

Lockheed Martin will help take NASA astronauts back to the Moon

In the fiscal year 2022, another three will follow (missions VI through VIII), based on a contract valued at $1.9 billion. Again, saving money and time for th...

Australia will join USA for 2024 moon mission, Mars exploration

NASA may have ambitions of returning to the moon on its own, but it's asking for help from Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk to make breakthroughs for future space mi...

Venus may be habitable earlier, Study says

What they discovered is that Earth's twin-sister planet was capable of maintaining stable temperatures ranging from -50 to +20 C for about three billion yea...

Greta Thunberg to UN: 'You've stolen my childhood with your empty words'

But even if all countries meet the goals they set themselves, the world will warm by 2.9 degrees Celsius to 3.4 degrees Celsius, the report found. UN Secretar...

Chandrayaan-2 enters into Lunar Orbit

A soft landing on the Moon would be a huge leap forward in India's space programme, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi determined to launch a manned missio...

After strikes, youth climate activists keep pressure on leaders

In Canberra, Kabul and Berlin, and elsewhere across the globe, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets yesterday to demand that their leaders tackle...

Google welcomes spring and fall with dual Doodles for the equinox

A supermoon is named such because the full moon phase of the cycle occurs at the same time as the moon's closest pass to earth. Google is celebrating the ...

Chinese probe successfully lands on far side of moon, sends back images

This new landing is far from being a mundane event. Those were either steered by humans onboad or, if uncrewed, relied on luck for a safe landing. Instead, Cha...

Israeli Scientist Have Unveiled The Looks Of Ancient Family

Research suggests that Denisovan DNA may have contributed to modern Tibetans' ability to live in high altitudes and the Inuits' ability to withstand freezing te...

China Makes Historic Touchdown on Moon's Far Side

After the successful landing, experts verified the conditions of " Queqiao ", meaning Magpie Bridge, which was launched in May of 2018 to set up the communica...

ISRO experts panel analysing cause of Vikram's failure

The NASA orbiter, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), has reportedly taken a series of images of the site where Vikram is said to have hard-landed. ISRO has...

Greta Thunberg to Congress: 'Don't listen to me. Listen to the scientists'

GEORGI TOMISATO: You know , when I first heard about Greta Thunberg , she really impressed me. She has helped energize a youth movement focused on the generat...

Trump says he will strip California’s clean-car authority

In a series of tweets , Trump argued that auto prices would fall after he lowered the pollution standards and that the lower prices would allow people to upg...

Trump to stop California from toughening emissions standards

California is using the latter to address greenhouse gas emissions too, which the Supreme Court has recognized as a pollutant qualified for regulation. follow ...

MIT engineers 'hide' $2m-diamond under world's blackest black material

Wardle and former MIT postdoc Kehang Cui, now a professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China , didn't intend to engineer an ultrablack material. " So I ...

Florida man suspected in serial slayings of 4 women arrested

Through ballistics and DNA evidence, investigators suspect Hayes, then a college student, also shot dead three other women in Daytona Beach over the course of t...

Brad Pitt talks to space station astronaut

The International Space Station crew previewed the film a few weeks ago. I got to imagine it was a lot easier for me to kind of enjoy the zero-G than it was you...

Activist Greta Thunberg to urge climate action on Capitol Hill

The week will kick off with a sign waving Friday, September 20th from 3-6pm at Kamehameha Statue in Hilo followed by daily activities for the rest of week inc...

Fate of Chandrayaan - 2's lander might be known tonight

Earlier, there was a huge confusion if the lander had reached the lunar surface or if it is lost in the universe. In a critical day for the Chandrayaan 2 mi...

Huge asteroid to pass (relatively) close by Earth

An asteroid nearly twice the height of the Shard will pass by Earth on Saturday night, scientists have said . "Both of these space rocks are going at aro...

Missing Florida mother found dead, 4 children still missing

Police have confirmed they are still searching for one-year-old Aiyana and two-year-old Mercalli Jones as well as Preston, five, and 10-year-old Cameron Bowers....

Greek lead astronomer finds water on exoplanet twice the size of Earth

The exoplanet could be a potential super-Earth (a planet with mass lesser than the masses of ten Earths), hinting at the probability of life outside the solar s...

First detailed NASA images of Ultima Thule reveal 'snowman' shape

But when better pictures arrived, a new consensus emerged Wednesday. "We have a healthy spacecraft", announced Alice Bowman, Mission Operations Manager for N...

China's Chang'e-4 probe soft-lands on moon's far side

Humans have managed to take pictures of this region, but no human-made probe has ever explored this dark, cold part of the lunar surface . Photo provided by ...