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White House plays down climate report's alarming findings

Heartland sent out a half-hearted release on Saturday , with three pitiful quotes blaming the Deep State for the report's full-scale demolition of the facade o...

NASA's InSight Mars Lander Reaches Mars Today! Here's What to Expect

In recent days, NASA has been commanding the spacecraft to make minor course corrections to ensure InSight enters the Martian atmosphere at the proper angle...

Latest climate change report predicts dire times for economy, environment

In a statement, White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters said "to address future risks, the administration supports a strong economy and access to affordable, re...

Star Trek-inspired plane powered by ‘IONIC WINDS’ unveiled

They also said that to generate enough thrust to sustain the flight, the electric field let the nitrogen ions flow from the wires to rods at the back of the p...

NASA stages for next chapter of Mars exploration with 2020 landing site

NASA assured that mission engineers have reduced the landing zone of Mars 2020 to 50 percent smaller than Curiosity 's in 2012 at Gale Crater. The 45-kilom...

SpaceX launches Es'hail-2 satellite, ties launch record

The Japanese-built Es'hail-2 satellite is the second in a series of spacecraft created to provide satellite TV and secure communication services across the Midd...

After fake moon, China trying to create an artificial sun

Scientists in eastern China on Monday announced the creation of a temporary " artificial sun " over six times hotter than the core of the real sun, marking an...

Second-closest 'super-Earth' found orbiting sun's stellar twin

It circles a cool red-dwarf star, smaller and older than the sun, completing one orbit every 233 days . By crunching a wealth of data gathered by many differ...

Startup Rocket Lab puts 6 small satellites into orbit

On a late Sunday afternoon in New Zealand , Rocket Lab successfully launched its third rocket. "We're thrilled to be leading the small satellite launch ind...

Stephen Hawking wheelchair sells for nearly $400G at auction

Medals and awards sold for 296,750 pounds ($387,708), compared with an estimate of 15,000 pounds, while the red motorised wheelchair sold for 296,750 pounds ($...

Firework smog chokes Delhi as India celebrates Diwali

Readings above 500 in the index, which measures poisonous gases and toxic particulate matter in the air, are typically associated with serious aggravation of th...

China unveils new ´Heavenly Palace´ space station as ISS days numbered

The International Space Station (ISS) is a $100 billion (£80 billion) science and engineering laboratory that orbits 250 miles (400 km) above Earth. Some 40 p...

More protection: UN says Earth’s ozone layer is healing

The ozone layer's recuperation has been credited to the 1987 Montreal Protocol , which mandated that countries phase out chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and other o...

Scientists reveal mysterious 'Oumuamua' object could be an alien spacecraft

Scientists first discovered the mysterious interstellar object now known as "Oumuamua" in late 2017 when it was spotted by thePan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii...

Tesla to make Indian debut in 2019? Here's what Elon Musk says

This isn't the first time Space X CEO has shown interest to enter the Indian market. "The DOJ has also asked us to voluntarily provide it with information about...

Delhi's air quality turned 'severe' for the first time this season

Ten areas in Delhi recorded "severe" air quality while 23 areas recorded "very poor" air quality, according to the CPCB data. The Supreme Court-appointe...

Russian official says Soyuz rocket failure caused by an errant sensor

The two men landed safely on a steppe in Kazakhstan in the accident, the first of its kind for Russia's manned program in over three decades. The carrier ...

Brazil Elects Self-Styled Right Wing Strongman Jair Bolsonaro

Mr. Bolsonaro swept a runoff election over the weekend, winning almost 55% of the vote to defeat the left-of-centre Fernando Haddad. Presidential candidate ...

Kepler space telescope 'retired' by NASA

NASA realized Kepler was running out of fuel earlier this summer and chose to officially retire it. Calling Kepler's mission "stunningly successful", TESS p...

The Kepler Space Telescope Shuts Down For Good

K2 lasted as long as the first mission, allowing Kepler to survey more than 500,000 stars total. Nasa has experienced a series of spacecraft problems lately...

Big brands pledge to turn tide on global plastic waste

The Global Commitment builds on the original goal of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's New Plastics Economy , which called on businesses and nations to recycl...

Parker Solar Probe Breaks Record, Becomes Closest Spacecraft to Sun

It is clarified that the satellite close to the Sun at 40.23 million kilometers. Parker will make 24 close approaches to the sun over the next seven years...

WWF report reveals a 60% decline in wildlife populations since 1970

The numbers of freshwater wildlife species showed a dramatic decline of 83% over the same period. India is one of the worst affected by biodiversity loss ...

Oscar forms, strengthens in Central Atlantic Ocean

Oscar has transitioned from a subtropical storm into a tropical storm and now may become a hurricane soon. Hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean usually star...

Authorities issue advisory as air pollution worsens in Indian capital

Persistent stubble burning in Haryana and Punjab and local polluting factors have already wreaked havoc, and now the weather conditions have also started to con...

Subtropical Storm Oscar forms in Atlantic; no threat to land

Additional strengthening is expected, and Oscar could become a hurricane after transitioning to a tropical storm later this weekend or early next week. As of Th...

Storm wipes Hawaiian island off map

According to researchers, the disappearance of the whole island does not go unnoticed - coming serious consequences. In the satellite images released by the ...

White House to press forward with Trump's Space Command

Pence asserted that the USA was going to protect its interests in space and said that to understand American defence today, is to understand the interrelationsh...

Hurricane Willa Lashes Mexico’s Pacific Coast

Hurricane Willa slammed into Mexico's Pacific coast late on Tuesday, raking it with winds of 120 miles per hour (195 kph) that brought power outages, buffeted b...

Mother Nature with a chainsaw? Perfectly rectangular iceberg dazzles online

As the picture shows, tabular icebergs are large slabs of ice with almost vertical sides and flat tops. The huge block of ice, known as a tabular berg, wa...

Stephen Hawking's wheelchair and medals are up for auction

Christie's, a global auctioneer headquartered in London, is selling several of Hawking's papers, including his dissertation, thesis on the origins of the unive...

Rocket science: Europe's set to blast off to Mercury

Engineers worked throughout the day in ESOC's Main Control Room simulating BepiColombo's launch , maintaining data and voice contact with their counterparts at ...

Iceberg shaped like a colossal sheet cake drifts through Antarctic

The icy rectangle was likely formed by a process that's fairly common along the edges of icebergs, explained Nasa ice scientist Kelly Brunt, of the Univers...

Hurricane Willa path tracker: Hurricane to reach CATEGORY 5 before hitting Mexico

As of 4 a.m. CST., Wilma had maximum sustained winds of 155 miles per hour - just 2 miles per hour short of a Category 5. Hurricane force winds extended 30 mi...

Orionid meteor shower to peak in coming days

Cloud-free conditions will allow some views of the debris from Halley's comet, with peak time for viewing coming Sunday night into Monday morning. NASA meteor...