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A material way to make Mars habitable

Corresponding author Professor Robin Wordsworth , an engineer at Harvard University in the U.S., said: 'This regional approach to making Mars habitable is mu...

This material could make parts of Mars habitable for humans, study says

Scientist Carl Sagan's work inspired other researchers to take seriously the idea of terraforming Mars . While the polar ice caps on Earth are made up of ...

EARLY WARNING: National Weather Service issues Excessive Heat Warnings, Advisory beginning Wednesday

Much of the Midwest, including St Louis, Wichita, Omaha and Kansas City, are under heat watches, with the mercury expected to top 100 degrees over the coming da...

Apollo 11 astronaut returns to launch pad 50 years later

This July 21, 1969 photo made available by NASA shows the USA flag planted at Tranquility Base on the surface of the moon, and a silhouette of a thruster at r...

Lunar eclipse tonight: Pro tips to click great photos from your smartphone

A faint shading or smudge on the moon's disk should become evident for most viewers around 19:35 UTC, and the last vestige of any faint tarnishing should disapp...

Healthy Living May Help Offset Genetic Risk of Dementia

Dr Llewlyn said that knowing one's genetic risk of dementia might help motivate people improve their lifestyle, but he stopped short of recommending univers...

Hurricane Barry: What is happening with Hurricane Barry 2019? Latest NOAA warning

The remnants of Tropical Storm Barry could bring flooding rain to Upstate New York on Wednesday. A slight risk means scattered severe storms will be possible;...

Lunar Eclipse To Take Place Next Week

What could be a better way to teach kids about lunar eclipse than to get them to experience this phenomenon first hand? In the case of a partial lunar Eclips...

'One small step' and other notable quotes on moon landing

He named Kenneth Bowersox, a former NASA astronaut who made five space shuttle flights, as the new acting associate administrator. Bill Hill, a deputy associa...

Hayabusa2 Spacecraft Successfully Lands on Ryugu Asteroid

JAXA's Hayabusa2 project is an asteroid sample-return mission like NASA's OSIRIS-REx . "We've collected a part of the solar system's history", Japan Aerospac...

Oldest Homo sapiens outside Africa found in Greece

An worldwide team - including Manchester University experts - created virtual reconstructions of each using state-of-the-art technology. The analysis of the dec...

India's heavy rocket 'Bahubali' gearing up for Moon

The touchdown will take place near the southern pole of the moon, a first for a space mission, according to India Today. How many countries have till now lau...

Astronomers Discovered Pairs of Supermassive Black Holes

Supermassive black holes are usually found at the center of large galaxies , including our own Milky Way. The discovery provides an anchor point for estimati...

NASA Taps SpaceX to Help Launch Polarized X-Ray Mission in 2021

SpaceX's launches include NASA's commercial resupply missions it frequently performs for the International Space Station. A flight-proven Falcon 9 has been ...

Hayabusa-2: Japanese spacecraft lands for final asteroid mission

By early afternoon, JAXA said the probe had descended around five kilometres and was on track to touchdown Thursday on the Ryugu asteroid, some 300 million kilo...

Astronomers baffled by weird record-breaking space rock — NASA asteroid shock

Before 2019 LF6 came along, 2019 AQ3 had the shortest known year of any asteroid, orbiting the sun roughly every 165 days. Both of the objects orbit basically p...

Gulf Coast residents should keep an eye on potential storm

Earlier this week, the Colorado State University updated its forecast for this hurricane season and now expect 14 named storms, six hurricanes, and two majo...

U.S. breaks 125-year rain record as Gulf prepares for tropical system

The National Hurricane Center has a high 80 percent chance for tropical development in the northern Gulf of Mexico. While named tropical systems usually cat...

Japan resumes commercial whaling, seen as face-saving end

Also flying out of the kitchen is whale sashimi - raw slices of whale flesh, skin or liver. It's worrying this population hasn't shown the same robust recovery ...

Planting trees could be a "mind-blowing" solution to climate change

Researchers estimate that even with existing cities and farmland, there's enough space for new trees to cover 9 million square kilometres around the globe or ab...

Nasa launches Orion crew capsule to test abort system

NASA successfully demonstrated Tuesday the Orion spacecraft's launch abort system can outrun a speeding rocket and pull astronauts to safety during an emerge...

Oumuamua is Not a Spaceship

It appeared to be rocky and metallic, showing properties of being both a comet and an asteroid. The new study led by Matthew Knight, an associate research s...

Japan to commercially hunt 227 whales this year

The announcement of the quota, originally planned for late June, was delayed until Monday in an apparent move to avoid criticism during this past weekend's Grou...

NASA Sold Apollo 11 Footage To Intern, Tape Now Worth Millions

SSERVI will be offering support to the newly selected teams for five years at a total of about $10.5 million per year which is funded by NASA's Science and Huma...

Japan resumes commercial whale hunt after more than 30 years

For most whale species , the exit of Japan from the convention banning commercial whaling will have few consequences . The Red List classifies Bryde's a...

Total solar eclipse moves across South America today

ET. Just so you don't miss either of these celestial sights, here's all you need to know about when and where to watch these events, and what to expect. "I ...

NASA To Test Orion's Launch Abort System | AWIN_Space content from Aviation Week

The launch abort motors, generating 400,000 pounds of thrust, then pulled the Orion capsule away from the rocket which was already traveling almost 1,000 mile...

San Francisco Exploratorium to broadcast solar eclipse

Projected path of the 2019 total solar eclipse . The total eclipse itself will last for four minutes and 33 seconds. The next total solar eclipse will ...

Tomorrow A Solar Eclipse Will Be Coming With A Striking Amber Colour

Parts of Chile and Argentina, however, will be able to see the entire eclipse , meaning the Moon will completely block the Sun, as these regions fall within it...

Sask. Premier disappointed by Ontario court ruling on federal carbon pricing

This approach would reduce emissions from industry, helping Ontario achieve its proposed emissions reduction target without imposing a carbon tax on fuels. The ...

Nevada utility announces three major solar projects with battery storage

In the end, Residential Solar Energy Storage Industry report provides the main region, market conditions with the product price, profit, capacity, production, s...

NASA's Next Mission Takes Dragonfly Drone To Saturn's Moon, Titan

The Agency plans to send a drone helicopter the moon to search for the building blocks of life. Dragonfly will launch in 2026 and arrive in 2034. It is th...

NASA Curiosity rover detects high levels of methane on Mars

Ahead of it's next mission to Mars, NASA is looking for help naming the rover that will land on the red planet . It will be launched in 2020 aboard an Atlas ...

SpaceX Falcon Heavy Lights Up Florida's Space Coast

Meant to confirm its military use, the 3rd flight of the heaviest launcher of the world had to face many unprecedented issues. SMC procured the mission to provi...

The ISS Astronauts Snapped The Raikoke Volcano Eruption From Space

The vast plume of smoke and ash seen in the image bellowed out of the 700-meter wide crater and was picked up by several satellites and astronauts on the ISS ....