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Earth just suffered through its 4th hottest year on record

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Nearly every major new economic initiative proposed by Democrats - the Green New Deal, Medicare for all, debt-free college - has a common feature: Unlike most c...

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Earth's magnetic field is now getting weaker, and scientists believe the poles could "flip" at some point in the future. With the magnetic field of the Eart...

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Brazil Dam Collapse: At least 200 people still missing in Brumadinho

This is the second dam disaster in three years to hit Brazilian mining company Vale. The Minerals Council said its board, which held a meeting on Wednesday, c...

Hubble Captures Stunning New Dwarf Galaxy Close to the Milky Way

An global team of astronomers recently used the telescope to study white dwarf stars in the NGC 6752. This composite image shows the location of the accident...

Groundhog doesn't see his shadow, predicting early spring

Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. The groundhog will leave his burrow at Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania on February 2 for the annual Groundhog Day cerem...

Giant hole in Antarctica Thwaites Glacier

Scientists had long predicted the glacier was not tightly attached to the bedrock underneath it and expected to find some gaps. Yet the vast size and fast-mov...

Brr!: temperatures plunge well below zero in midwest US

Mail deliveries were suspended and people were encouraged to stay home in almost a dozen U.S. states where the mercury plunged into the negative double digits, ...

As risky cold descends, President Trump's tweet about global warming draws scorn

Trump is a vocal global warming denier and today gave his on the cold weather patterns now taking hold of the US Midwest. What the hell is going on with Globa...

Polar vortex: 'Life-threatening' wind chills arrive in Midwest starting Tuesday

Windchill values could fall as low as minus 41 degrees in some areas this week. While Winnipeg, southern Manitoba - well, really the entire province - has bee...

Scientists found Earths oldest rock on Moon

Because the Moon was much closer to Earth at that point - about three times closer than it is now - it was in a better position for pieces of this debris to e...

SpaceX Starship prototype nosecone topples in high Texas winds

According to Federal Communications Commission documents , the current prototype will fly no higher than 16,400 feet during test flights. Space X CEO Elon M...

The First Alert 25 Weather Team covers the Great American Solar Eclipse

Elsewhere in the country, and across the entire North American continent, spectators were treated to a partial eclipse of the sun . This rare alignment, in w...

Meteorite strikes moon during full lunar eclipse

In the video, the lunar impact flash was spotted on the top-left half of the moon at 0441 GMT on January 21 and was captured by telescopes operating in the fram...

NASA changes crew for Boeing commercial crew test flight

Boeing's Starliner is being developed as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program-an initiative where the space agency is collaborating with the American aerosp...

Greenland's ice is melting even faster than scientists thought

Michael Bevis , a professor at Ohio State University and lead author of the PNAS paper, said the ice now appeared to be melting from the surface mass, "me...

Check out the Super Blood Wolf Moon

The eclipse, which was produced as the Sun, Earth, and Moon all aligned, cast a large shadow over the lunar body locally from approximately 9 to 10:30 p.m. So w...

Sarah Huckabee Sanders' strategy for Ocasio-Cortez: Ignore her

The last press briefing was December 18-35 days ago, which marks Sanders' longest stretch away from the podium. Sims book, available January 29, describes a r...

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Surrounded by stars, the eclipsed moon turns red over Mount Baker. Unlike solar eclipses , which require special glasses to view and can be seen only for a f...

Cassini data suggests Saturn's rings are surprisingly young

Their age was determined by studying doppler-shifted radio signals from the doomed Cassini spacecraft . Cassini's view of Saturn during its final flyby of th...

A Fake Meteor Shower Could Be Coming to a Sky Near You

Tiny balls that glow brightly as they speed through the atmosphere, simulating a meteor shower, will be released by the satellite. The Epsilon rocket carrying...

MKE events to watch the only total lunar eclipse of 2019

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If you're hungry for the eerie sight of a total lunar eclipse, you have to keep the weather in mind. The only total lunar eclipse of 2019, it gets underway Su...

China's Lunar Probe Sees First Cotton-seed Sprout

On Jan. 3, China made history by successfully soft-landing a spacecraft on the far side of the Moon . Chang'e-8 mission will conduct scientific experimen...

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CERN Reveals Plans For 100-Kilometer Future Round Collider

This week an worldwide collaboration of scientists and researchers published its Conceptual Design Report for the Future Circular Collider (FCC). The aim wo...

China's Moon mission sees first seeds sprout

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Government reveals plans to tackle air pollution

But the government is set to deploy rainmaking planes to seed clouds by dispersing chemicals into the air to aid condensation. Reasons for the persistent smog...

Antarctica's Ice Melting Rate Has Increased by 240 Percent, Research Finds

By the years 2009 to 2017, the ice loss had increased more than six-fold, to 252 billion tonnes a year. "This is, so to speak, only the tip of the iceberg",...

Chinese researchers sprout seeds on the moon for first time ever

Xie Gengxin, dean of Institute of Advanced Technology at Chongqing University , and the chief designer of the experiment, praised the achievement on the univer...

China Considering International Base On Moon After Mission Success

In the same auction, three tiny Moon rocks brought back from space by the unmanned Soviet Luna-16 mission were sold for $855,000. Previous spacecraft have seen ...

China grows the first seed on the Moon

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Fall From Grace: DNA Helix Discoverer, Nobel Prize Winner Stripped of Honors

He apologized at the time , but in the recent PBS documentary " American Masters: Decoding Watson ", he said his views on race have not changed "at all". In ...

China broadcasts spacecraft pictures from moon's far side

The 140-kilogram (308-pound) rover has since resumed activities, which will include taking a picture of the front side of the lander and exploration missions. "...