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Oceans heating up faster than expected, set record in 2018

The new study analyzed earlier published information and data compiled by Argo , an global system of almost 4,000 floats that measures temperature and saline...

Repeated radio signals from deep space thrust advanced alien life theories

There are lights in the universe that we do not see. Indeed, it's still early days in our understanding of FRBs , but a pair of papers published today in N...

Billions of white dwarf stars are crystallising, say astronomers

White dwarf stars are among the oldest objects in the universe, and represent one of the final life phases of stars like the sun. The process results in white d...

Scientists detect mysterious radio signals in space

Whatever the photons pass through, that interaction is recorded in the radio waves and can be " translated " after it's received by the telescope. Scientists ...

MPs vote to further bind Theresa May's hands on Brexit

After a two week Christmas recess, United Kingdom parliamentarians resumed hostilities on Brexit, with 20 Conservative MPs joining forces with the oppositio...

NASA Exoplanet Hunter Racks Up Bizarre Worlds and Exploding Stars

Compared to TESS's other two sightings-Pi Mensae b, a "super-Earth" with a 6.3-day orbit, and LHS 3844b, a rocky world that speeds around its star in 11 hours...

Invasion of the jellyfish: 13,000 beach goers stung in just one week

About 13,000 stings were recorded in the past week - three times more than in the corresponding period previous year. The association are warning beach goers ...

The 'dark' side of the moon

All systems are go as a Chinese spacecraft and rover power up their observation equipment after making a first-ever landing on the far side of the moon , the...

Chinese spacecraft makes first landing on far side of the moon

China's lunar craft Chang'e 4 has released its rover Yutu 2 to explore the far side of the moon after making the world's first soft landing on the moon'...

How to see Quadrantids in UK: What time to watch meteor shower

Around 60 percent of the meteors will be outside the field of view in North America, though stargazers in that region should still expect to see roughly 30 to 4...

Meteors come to Kingman skies

The last time that Qatar had an encounter with meteor showers was back in November a year ago when annual meteors "Taurid and Leonid" appeared in the skies of D...

China is launching robots to study Moon's 'unexplored' far side

Prior to this, no other mission launched to the far side because there is no direct line of sight between Earth and that part of Moon. It's also carrying a 3 ...

Icy object past Pluto looks like reddish snowman

Designed and launched in 2006 to investigate Pluto , it's already gone 1 billion miles farther out. The probe's target was the oblong space rock known as U...

Chance to see meteor shower in skies over north-east tonight

Tonight, the Quadrantids meteor shower will reach its peak for a few glorious hours. According to daily radio series EarthSky, the peak of the shower will u...

National parks dealing with vandals, human waste in shutdown

But for other national parks , its a different story. Many others, though, have remained open, but all but a skeleton staff have been furloughed . Also the sa...

EPA takes aim at Obama-era regulation of mercury at coal plants

However, it challenges the basis for the Obama regulation, calculating that the crackdown on mercury and other toxins from coal plants produced only a few milli...

Super blood wolf moon happening January 20

Basically, folks across the United States may be able to catch a glimpse of a super blood wolf moon eclipse . According to Space.com, the full moon will be...

Cold Christmas in Delhi with 'severe' air quality

The air quality is likely to remain in the "severe" category for the next couple of days due to unfavourable meteorological conditions. "Approval of new section...

Apollo 8 mission fifty years on

Astronauts (left to right) William Anders, James Lovell Jr and Frank Borman in training for the Apollo mission. The Apollo 8 lunar module pilot told the BB...

Japan will resume commercial whaling in 2019

Japan suspended its hunt for one season to re-tool its whaling programme with measures such as cutting the number of whales and species targeted, but resumed hu...

SpaceX Launches 20th Rocket with USAF GPS Satellite, Does Not Recover Booster

The launch had been rescheduled earlier in the week because of the weather. Very unlike SpaceX , the company did not attempt to recover the first stage booster...

Start of winter, a full moon and a meteor shower

EST on December 21 - is the solstice . Some typical possible daylight hours at the December ( Northern Hemisphere's winter) solstice . When the sun rises o...

Delta IV Heavy NROL-71 Scrub Statement

Attempts on Dec. 7 and Dec. 8 were scrubbed due to technical issues, and a Dec. 18 try was called off because of high winds. The three-booster Delta IV Heavy...

Why is December's full moon known as the Cold Moon?

The phenomenon occurs when one of the Earth's poles has its maximum tilt away from the Sun. The Sun will be directly above the Tropic of Capricorn at noon, mark...

4 rocket launches planned this week, conditions permitting

You can watch the launch live at Blue Origin's webcast page or watch the live stream below. Blue Origin, too, said it meant to fly the tenth mission of its N...

Saturn's Rings May Disappear Within 100M Years

Based on their findings, the scientists plotted different rates of loss of the rings, to estimate how long it would before they completely disappeared. "I don't...

'Farout' object discovered 100 times farther from Sun than Earth

Recorded in the catalogue of solar system objects as ' 2018 VG18' , based on the timing of its discovery, the astronomers who spotted it ended up giving it a n...

Kansas native pilots Virgin Galactic's supersonic plane into space

The milestone also means the company is closer to launching space tourists. In July, after burning the rocket motor for 42 seconds, the VSS Unity reached a ...

Diplomats at United Nations climate talks agree on reporting emissions

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made his third trip in two weeks to the COP24 in the Polish mining city of Katowice in a bid to push a deal over the lin...

Poacher ordered to repeatedly watch movie 'Bambi'

According to the Missouri Department of Conservation , the investigation has tied 14 Missouri residents to over 230 criminal charges that occurred in 11 ...

Comet 46P/Wirtanen will scorch past Earth tomorrow - how to see it

The comet, "46P/Wirtanent", dubbed "The Christmas Comet" is expected to come within about 7.2 million miles of Earth . The Virtual Telescope will be running ...

Virgin Galactic's spaceplane successfully tests edge of space

It's the first time since 2011, when the USA retired the Space Shuttle , that humans have taken off from American soil and gone into space, reported Wired Mag...

The Geminid Meteor Shower Will Put On a Show This Evening

At the moment the Geminid meteor shower is now at its peak, making it a bit easier to spot "falling stars " with your own eyes. The shower is expected to lig...

NASA’s InSight Lander Just Took Its First Selfie On Mars

The selfie was taken on December 6, 2018 (Sol 10). This mosaic, made of 52 individual images from NASA's InSight lander , shows the workspace where the space...

Geminid Meteor Shower Peaks This Week

The attractive Aurora Borealis photobombed by the Geminids shower! "If the weather is clear, 2018 should be the best year ever to watch the Gemenides - so...