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Falcon 9 lifts off with Telstar 19 VANTAGE

The first re-flight of a block 5 Falcon 9 has not yet been announced. Basically, this means the booster will find its way home to land at a selected site a fe...

It's the 49th anniversary of Armstrong's walk on the moon

And now, in a series of auctions starting November 1 and 2, his collection will be offered for sale. Pieces of a wing and propeller from the Wright Brother...

Oldest Snake Fossil Found Trapped in Amber

The 99-million-year-old baby snake , discovered in Myanmar, was preserved in a piece of amber, or fossilized tree resin. Scientists are not sure where snak...

Scientists discover 12 more moons of Jupiter, including a really weird one

This planet is larger than Mercury.Shepard said that Valetudo had the possibility of "half-ice and half-rock" composition, and said that small satellites ...

United Kingdom awards $3.3 million for Scottish spaceport

Highlands and Islands Enterprise will be given £2.5m from the United Kingdom government to develop the spaceport which could be up and running by the early 202...

Ten more moons of Jupiter discovered

They would be able to tell the difference between Jupiter and the objects around it versus the distant solar system objects because any objects around Jupiter...

Astronomers find 12 new moons around Jupiter

Valetudo, as spotted through the Magellan telescope in May 2018. With a total of 79 moons, Jupiter is now the most lunar-rich planet in the solar system. This m...

Neutrino discovery helps resolve a century-old riddle

Data gathered by NSF's IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the foundation's Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica point to an answer to a more than ...

Massive Iceberg Looms Over A Village In Greenland

Meanwhile scientists have revealed they captured dramatic video of an iceberg six kilometres wide breaking off from a glacier in eastern Greenland . "We fear...

Israeli company plans lunar landing next year

It will also make Israel part of an exclusive club of just three countries-the United States, the Soviet Union and China-that have successfully completed a cont...

Hello beer in corner stores; bye discovery math: Throne speech

The Tories repeated their promise to order a line-by-line audit of all government spending as part of their efforts to find billions in efficiencies. Earlier ...

Tropical Storm Chris expected to become post-tropical Thursday

Rainfall and wind warnings also remained in effect, with gusts up to 110 km/h and up to 80 mm of rain possible for southeastern Newfoundland. The storm was ...

Russian cargo ship docks at ISS in record time

It would be just another routine launch except for the fact that it was placed on a trajectory that got it to ISS in just two orbits - roughly 3.5 hours instead...

Brett Kavanaugh female law clerks say judge an advocate for women

As the Senate moves to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court, the attendance of one senator is still up in the air: U.S. Sen. The GO...

Brewer says McCain won't resign as Senate moves to confirm Kavanaugh

Sen. Chuck Schumer of NY, the Democratic leader, said in an interview Wednesday that Kavanaugh's belief in broad presidential authority was "just off the de...

Kavanaugh works Capitol Hill as Dems warn of rightward tilt

In multiple opinions setting out this position, he has relied not on constitutional text - indeed, he conceded that "based exclusively on the text" of the C...

New Supreme Court Nominee Kavanaugh Has Ties To Big Florida Moments

Grassley said a speedy confirmation wasn't necessarily the goal. "Having bungled it once, I don't think doing it again just to show that they started it is re...

Israeli unmanned spacecraft to land on Moon in 2019

In May, China launched a relay satellite that will orbit the moon and allow it to receive signals from a planned probe that will land on the far side of the...

Instagram Model Posing For Pictures In Bahamas Bitten By Shark

But as she posed for a photo, a shark latched onto Zarutskie's arm. She began floating in the water and everything seemed fine, but then one of the animals bit ...

Hurricane Chris to track south of Nova Scotia

An Air Force Reserve Reconnaissance aircraft is scheduled to fly over Chris Tuesday afternoon. Tropical Storm Chris is shown off the eastern coast of North ...

The last straw? Starbucks pledges to eliminate plastic straws globally by 2020

By 2020, it says that all iced coffee, espresso, and tea beverages will come with strawless lids, remodelled for easy sipping. The Seattle-based carrier, wh...

'Disorganized' Tropical Storm Beryl moving a little faster, but blowing no harder

The government of Dominica said it would shut down its water system and Puerto Rico's governor warned of likely new power outages. Temperatures are expected...

Tropical Storm Chris to avoid New England

They expect Chris to become a hurricane by mid-week with additional strengthening forecast afterward. Chris, the third storm of the 2018 Atlantic hurricane se...

U.S. border agents approached Canada fishermen in disputed waters

In recent days, the dispute has reached a crucial stage, beginning with a Facebook post on June 25 , in which a Canadian fisherman claimed that U.S. Facebook ...

Tropical Depression Two become Beryl in the Atlantic

Maximum sustained winds were down to 60 miles per hour and it was moving west-northwest at 16 miles per hour. We could have a third name storm soon, as the Na...

Northern white rhino 'could be saved from extinction'

In order to increase the supply of eggs and preserve the northern white rhino's genetic diversity, scientists are also working on a second method that would coa...

Hawaii Bans Popular Sunscreen Chemicals That Damage Coral Reefs

Sunscreens containing minerals like zinc oxide and titanium dioxide reflect the sun's rays away from skin and are a good alternative to chemicals that could be ...

Beryl becomes first hurricane of the 2018 Atlantic season

Dominica was hit by Hurricane Maria previous year as a Category 5 storm and hasn't fully recovered. The hurricane gained strength Friday morning and was a Cat...

Donald Trump announces resignation of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt

Judith Enck, an Obama-era former EPA regional administrator, told Mother Jones in an interview ahead of Wheeler's confirmation as deputy EPA administrator i...

Demand For Water Remains 30% Higher Than Normal

Irish Water is also encouraging people to report leaks. Will there be a hosepipe ban in Suffolk? Brits are being urged to reduce their water usage in order...

Scott Pruitt becomes latest Trump official to be harassed at a restaurant

While some on the right have said Mink "harassed" Pruitt , the guests on Fox Business News (FBN) Mornings With Maria Bartiromo Tuesday thought otherwise. Niels...

Hang onto your hat for a hot holiday weekend

Overnight lows are forecast to be in the low twenties. Phillips says that while the daytime high is expected to top out at 26 C and 25 C on Friday and Saturday,...

Kennedy's retirement 'will drastically change the energy' of Supreme Court: Clerk

Choosing his successor, which needs Senate approval, gives Trump the chance to mold the dominant ideology on the Supreme Court for years to come. He said ...

New baby planet image captured

To even be able to see the new planet, the telescope had to first block out the bright light of the central star itself. Operated by the European Southern Ob...

The heat wave will be around for a while

For DC, a Heat Emergency Plan is now in effect through July 2, as temperatures and heat index values will soar into mid-to-upper 90s. Clouds Saturday bloc...