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Meghan Markle Wore the Same Dress as Prince Harry's Ex Girlfriend

After skipping the cycling events on Sunday morning, Meghan joined Harry at the prime minister's Invictus lunchtime reception. The mother-to-be opted to res...

Researchers release audio of Antarctic ice 'singing' a haunting song

The cause was the rapid melting of the snow and ice, which rendered the firn less sensible to seismic waves. The ice shelf buttresses adjacent ice sheets on Ant...

Forecasters unveil weather outlook for upcoming winter across US

Center Deputy Director Mike Halpert said in a statement a "weak El Nino " could bring "warmer, drier conditions to parts of the North". But it will be weak...

Chinese city plans 'artificial moon' to light up skies

The artificial or manmade moon is a satellite carrying a huge space mirror, which can reflect the sunlight to the Earth. According to local reports picked...

NASA to proceed with Soyuz launch despite recent rocket failure

NASA astronaut Nick Hague , who returned to Moscow from the Baikonur spaceport on October 12 after the Soyuz booster's failure, flew to the United States ...

Trump Surveys Hurricane Michael Damage

The Trumps also planned to visit part of Georgia that was hit by Michael before they return to the White House on Monday evening, the White House said. indu...

Florida town almost wiped off the map by Hurricane Michael

In August 2004, Hurricane Charley strengthened from 110 mph to 150 mph in just a few hours before striking Florida's Gulf coast south of Sarasota. Officials pre...

Hurricane Michael SHARK warning as 160mph winds ‘sending killer beasts’ to Florida

Currently, more than 500,000 people are without electricity in Florida , Alabama and Georgia , emergency services say. Meanwhile, thousands of National Guar...

Astronauts survive emergency landing after booster fails on Russian rocket

The crash comes after Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin accused Elon Musk of conspiring with the Pentagon to force other players out of the space industry and s...

3 companies win major Air Force rocket contracts

Northrop Grumman , and Blue Origin each multi-hundred million dollar contracts on Wednesday to develop a launch system prototype by 2021 for the Evolved Expe...

Seven of the Most Devastating Hurricane Michael Photos You'll Ever See

Since making landfall on Wednesday as a powerful Category 4 hurricane , the now tropical storm has left thousands of people without power, uprooted trees, tu...

Soyuz Crew Performs Ballistic Reentry After Booster Fails During Launch

American astronaut Nick Hague (right) and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin speak before taking off aboard a Soyuz MS-10 capsule to the International Space...

NOAA Says It’s Category 3 With 120 Mph Winds, Storm Surge

NHC said those areas will likely experience a "life-threatening" storm surge, where 9 to 13 feet of inundation is possible in the worst areas between Tyndall A...

Hubble in 'safe mode', but science operations suspended

The telescope is known to be nearing the end of its active life, with the James Webb Space Telescope - now scheduled for launch no earlier than 2021 - slate...

Unprecedented action needed to curb global warming

He said the long-awaited findings show that " climate change is running faster than we are - and we are running out of time ". The report was meant to ring ...

Climate change: European Union sticks to Paris goals despite IPCC warning

Making an unprecedented call to action , the United Nations' climate panel said that to avoid catastrophe, all countries must change the way their people e...

Visuals of How Much Damage Hurricane Michael Inflicted on the Gulf Coast

Michael had weakened to a Category 1, with maximum winds of 90 miles per hour as of 8:00 pm Eastern time (0000 GMT), but that still left it an extremely unsafe ...

Pipeline Explosion Causes Gas Shortage In British Colombia

The company isolated and depressurized a 36-inch pipeline, which carries gas to the Pacific Northwest, after it ruptured on Tuesday evening causing gas to ignit...

Virgin Galactic will be in space in "weeks not months", says Branson

He said Virgin would be taking people into space "not too long after" that. The next step for the aspiring space tourism firm is get its newly revamped S...

Sussex academic says lifestyle changes 'not enough' to halt global warming

As one of the countries hardest hit by climate change , Vietnam has been actively performing worldwide commitments and exerting efforts to ease its impacts, on...

Hurricane Michael devastation in Panama City, Florida seen in drone video, photos

In the D.C. area, its effects are a few days off and should be limited. Michael was downgraded to a tropical storm as it raced across Georgia late Wednesday...

Breathtaking video from MIDDLE of hurricane Michael shows blue skies

The hurricane is packing devastating winds as high as 150 miles per hour, and is the most powerful storm in recorded history for this part of the Florida coast....

Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket

Both astronauts were said to be "alive" on Thursday morning, but their exact condition is not known - according to local Russian report. Nasa rookie astrona...

Michael weakens to tropical storm as it moves across Georgia

With maximum sustained winds of 140 miles per hour, Hurricane Micheal is bearing down on the Florida panhandle this morning, having intensified into what the ...

Florida is braced for a hurricane 'catastrophe'

As of 8 a.m. EDT Tuesday, Michael's top sustained winds had strengthened to 100 miles per hour as it headed north-northwest at 12 miles per hour. "Do not risk y...

SpaceX Launches Falcon 9 with SAOCOM satellite

Air Force officials have issued a warning that residents in Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo counties could potentially hear one or more sonic booms d...

Hubble space telescope goes into 'safe mode' over faulty gyroscope

With the shuttle now retired, NASA has no present capability to send humans to fix the telescope. Upon powering on the third enhanced gyro that had been held in...

Sonic-boom UFO show! SpaceX launches satellite, lands rocket booster in California

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying an Argentinian satellite has blasted off from California. Still, Vandenberg Air Force Base had warned residents last w...

Man uses $100,000 meteorite as doorstop for decades

It's a story that began out of this world almost a hundred years ago when a meteorite crashed down to earth near Edmore, Michigan . In this September 14, 2...

SpaceX West Coast launch to bring sonic booms to California

A Space X Falcon 9 rocket was set to take off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California around 7:21 p.m. It was SpaceX's 17th flight so far this year, ...

First advisory issued on Potential Tropical Cyclone headed into Gulf

By Wednesday, however, environmental conditions are expected to become unfavorable for any significant development to occur. The low, called Invest 91-L for now...

Exomoons: astronomers report first ever discovery

Astronomers David Kipping , from Columbia University in NY and Alex Teachey are reporting and publishing the results Science Advances journal observing a...

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Designing Large Lunar Lander

The companies say they're partnering on a future Blue Moon mission to the lunar surface and will collaborate on a payload for Blue Origin's reusable, orbita...

Rock used as doorstop revealed to be meteorite worth $100K

The man told Sirbescu that he kept the rock for the next 30 years, even after moving away from the farm. A rock that was used as a doorstop on a MI farm for d...

Enzyme research delivers Chemistry Nobel Prize to two Americans and a Brit

They were the wish of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, who established the organization that provides money for the prizes. Noting that Ms Strickland is th...