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Eon Musk's SpaceX crew capsule rockets toward space station with test dummy

EST. Hans Koenigsmann, Vice President of Mission Assurance at SpaceX said Ripley was vital for future manned flights. For SpaceX, sending an astronaut int...

Watch SpaceX's first Crew Dragon launch at 2:49 AM ET

The flight, if successful, will be the first time a spaceship capable of carrying people that is commercially built and operated will travel to the Internatio...

Canada's ex-attorney general to testify about SNC scandal

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he's pleased that Jody Wilson-Raybould will be able to "share her perspectives" on the SNC-Lavalin affair. In response to h...

Young climate change activists swarm Mitch McConnell's office

A group of schoolkids and adults tried to boss around Sen. Feinstein told the woman, "Well, you know better than I do". While some wrote that a shortened vers...

NASA, SpaceX set for critical test flight

William Gerstenmaier , Nasa's associate administrator for human exploration, said agency officials will follow up with their Russian counterparts about the sa...

Watch the Desus & Mero Series Premiere Online for Free, You Wingdings

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was the first guest on the new Desus & Mero late night talk show on Showtime where she revealed what she sees...

Israeli Pride Swells as Moon Mission Successfully Lifts Off

The company designed and built the 1,322-pound lunar lander called " Beresheet ", which means "in the beginning" (the first words in the Bible). On Thursday...

Dianne Feinstein rebuffs young climate activists' calls for Green New Deal

O'Hanlon told HuffPost in an email that the children were "upset and disappointed" by Feinstein's attitude toward them. I've been doing this for 30 years. In th...

Musk’s SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts-off with three payloads

ARSP.B1) and SpaceIL reported that the spacecraft was in an elliptical orbit en-route to the moon, where it will touch down seven weeks from now on April 11. ...

Why do zebras have stripes? Perhaps to dazzle away flies

It seems the stripes do something that messes with the flies own movement, making it hard to land. The flies tended to fly over or glance off the zebras; when i...

Trudeau's principal secretary, Gerald Butts, resigns amid SNC-Lavalin furor

The committee has also invited Justice Minister Lametti but he appears unlikely to be able to shed much light on the affair for the same reason. The Globe an...

Gold Coast beaches closed as Cyclone Oma tracks towards Queensland coast

Areas of rain are coming to New Zealand but the jury remains out on whether or not Cyclone Oma will directly impact the country this weekend and early next we...

Israel’s first moon lander launches on SpaceX rocket

JewishPress.com readers are invited to watch LIVE ONLINE as the robotic lunar lander lifts off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Stat...

Super Snow Moon Lights Up the UAE Sky

Today's moon appears bigger than 2019's two other supermoons simply because, at only 221,681 miles away, it's the closest to Earth that a full moon will get thi...

Japanese spacecraft touches down on asteroid to get samples

Scientists were continuing to gather and analyse data from the probe, she said. The samples it brings back could shed light on what the early solar system was...

Science might have finally figured out why zebras have stripes

UC Davis Professor Tim Caro led a series of unique experiments for this study to better understand how stripes manipulate the behavior of biting flies as they...

SpaceX Launches 1st Private Moon Lander for Israel, Sticks Rocket Landing

About 30 minutes after liftoff, the spacecraft will disengage from the SpaceX Falcon 9 at around 60,000 kilometers above Earth's surface, beginning, under its ...

Cyclone Oma expected to linger until early next week

How said residents of the affected areas could expected "very heavy rainfall, gale force winds and storm surges" and these conditions, along with abnormally h...

Super Snow Moon on display through Tuesday morning

The supermoon occurring in the month of February is called a snow moon also. A forecast of clear skies and relatively warm weather holds the promise of go...

Enjoy biggest-brightest Snowmoon after 8.30 p.m.

The moon is also going to be 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than usual. The phenomenon occurs when a full moon, on its oval-shaped orbit, is at its...

The 'Super Snow Moon' makes an appearance over Cleveland

The supermoon will reach its peak Tuesday morning at 10:54 a.m. eastern time, but it won't be visible then. Instead, check the skies Monday and Tuesday nights...

Tomorrow's 'Super Snow Moon’ Will Be The Brightest Of 2019

Here, we explain what the supermoon is, as well as how and when to see it. If you're planning to use a smartphone to photograph the moon, you can do it on Monda...

Thousands of UK Students Protest Global Warming Policies in Nation-Wide Strike

Elsewhere, a duo clutching a bottle of champagne made their way on to the top of a number 11 double decker bus to Fulham Broadway. The young protestors were k...

Trudeau Says Wilson-Raybould’s Move Due to Brison’s Resignation

Which is why Jody Wilson-Raybould asked me if I was directing her, or going to direct her, to take a particular decision and I, of course, said no, that it was ...

Biggest supermoon of the year will happen this week

It's the second of three supermoons to take place in 2019. The third and last supermoon of the year can be seen on 21 March. February's full moon is known...

NASA has discovered another massive crater beneath the ice in Greenland

Exactly how and when it formed still remain a mystery, though the researchers suspect it may be more than 80,000 years old. MacGregor's team analyzed the raw ...

Mission complete: NASA announces demise of Opportunity rover

Today, NASA is officially saying goodbye to the craft that, for years and years, couldn't be stopped. Since then, the JPL has tried over 1,000 times to re-est...

Space project Mars One declared bankrupt

He noticed that the non-profit arm of Mars One , the Netherlands-based Mars One Foundation , was still alive, however, lacks investment to do anything. The ...

Ultima Thule is Flat, And Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong

However, after images of the flying and spinning object were received, Ultima Thule has turned out to be different from the way it had been originally descr...

Republicans mock Green New Deal: 'It's loony'

Phillips found that the majority of college students loved her proposal - until they heard what is actually in it. The joint resolution stakes out an ambitiou...

Japan nears e-waste goal for making Tokyo 2020 Olympics medals

Almost 50,000 tons of devices, including cameras, games consoles and laptops , plus more than five million smartphones , were collected for the Old Metals New...

Opposition keeps heat on Liberals over Wilson-Raybould

The company is facing allegations that it bribed Libyan officials millions of dollars to secure government contracts. SNC-Lavalin was charged in 2015 by the R...

2018 fourth warmest year on record: NASA, NOAA

The UN's World Meterological Organisation said in November that 2018 was set to be the fourth warmest year in recorded history, stressing the urgent need for ...

United States astronauts heading back to space on American rockets in July

In January, SpaceX successfully completed a static fire test of its Falcon 9 with Crew Dragon atop the rocket at Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A in Fl...

New British-made Mars rover named after unsung DNA pioneer Rosalind Franklin

The European Space Agency (ESA) announced today (Feb. 7) that its next Mars rover will be named for Rosalind Franklin, the late British scientist, who was b...