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Space station's 2 women prep for 1st all-female spacewalk

It further said, a team of engineers are reviewing the available health and status information from HDEV to identify what may have occurred and stated that more...

New space suits being readied for return moon trip

It's more flexible than its predecessors allowing astronauts greater mobility. Amy Ross, a spacesuit engineer at NASA's Johnson Space Center, left, and NAS...

NHC: Tropical Depression or Storm Possible By Weekend

Hurricane Hunters are scheduled to fly into this potential tropical system Thursday, if necessary. The highest impacts from PTC #16 along the North Carolina coa...

NASA found signs of life on Mars in the 1970s, says scientist

It has been decades since NASA started missions to Mars. Levin actually criticized the space agency for not taking into account the RL findings, even if the c...

NASA unveils new spacesuit prototypes for missions

NASA engineer Kristine Davis and NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine high-five at the press conference. Additionally, the new spacesuit also allows better mo...

All set for first all-female spacewalk

Meir and Koch had originally planned to help replace nickel-hydrogen batteries with "newer, more powerful" lithium-ion batteries on the far side of the ISS's po...

For the first time renewables overtake fossil fuels in United Kingdom power generation

Renewable energy sources provided more electricity in the United Kingdom than fossil fuels for the first time ever during the past quarter, revealed new resear...

Extinction Rebellion: Dublin activists block Irish parliament gates

Two activists have (English) potted trees outside Parliament, in Old Palace Yard, as they call to the government to plant trillions of trees in the UK. Don't mi...

See the Full Hunter's Moon Shine Bright Tonight

The hunter's moon isn't necessarily tied to a specific month, and typically falls in the month after the harvest moon , which could be either October or Nove...

Buzz Aldrin pays tribute to pioneering Soviet spaceman Alexei Leonov

Despite the mishap, Leonov remained a cosmonaut of high regard and he was decorated as a "Hero of the Soviet Union". The first American to walk in space , E...

Help Name Saturn's 20 Newfound Moons

They play a crucial role in helping us determine how our solar system's planets formed and evolved. More Saturnian moons may yet be found. Sheppard said ar...

Invasive Snakehead Fish Spotted in Georgia for First Time

The WRD also shared a list of instructions for people to follow if they come across one of the invasive fish . Instead, they MUST " Kill it immediately ", and ...

Warren Sticks to Story of Losing Teaching Job Due to Pregnancy

Apparently no one had done a deep dive into the story to find out if, in fact, Warren was let go in 1971 as a result of her pregnancy, as she has repeatedly cla...

Ancient oasis once existed on Mars

Imagine ponds dotting the floor of Gale Crater , the 100-mile-wide (150-kilometer-wide) ancient basin that Curiosity is exploring. Older rocks that Curiosit...

Two meteor showers will light up the night sky this week

The AMS said that these meteors are poorly seen from the southern hemisphere due to low radiant altitude seen from below the equator. In 2011, European obse...

Women-only spacewalk rescheduled after smaller spacesuit arrives

In the spacewalk back in March, McClain was replaced by a man because there was only one spacesuit available that could fit Koch and McClain. The spacewalk di...

Tech startup Aleph Farms 3D bioprints meat in space

However, Aleph's Yoav Reisler told Space.com that the company planned to build on the experiment and make synthetic beef steaks available on terra firma u...

3.5 million years ago the Milky Way exploded massively

Lisa Kewley , director of Australia's ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D), a project involving global astronomers st...

Saturn surpasses Jupiter to become new moon king

Thanks to a team led by famed astronomer Scott S. Sheppard 20 new moons have been discovered orbiting Saturn. As you might recall from a year ago, Sheppard ...

Netizens HURRAY Female Scientist Who Unveiled First Ever PHOTO of Black Hole

The glowing ring surrounding the "event horizon" around a black hole is not exactly a photo , but pixels pieced together using the algorithm. According to ...

China's Chang'e-4 mission lands on Moon's far side, snaps first image

Such a landing is tricky because one side of the Moon always points towards Earth making it impossible to communicate from the "dark" half. Months back, China...

NASA Sets 1st All-Female Spacewalk After Suit Flap in Spring

McClain herself made the decision and the teams supported her, Koch said. For the first five of the 10 spacewalks coming up, the Expedition 61 astronauts will...

Down to Earth: Astronauts Safely Return After Space Mission

Mansoori flew to the ISS after the UAE signed a contract with Roscosmos to allow him to become a "spaceflight participant", a term used for people from outside ...

NASA shares first close-up images of distant Ultima Thule

Then the spheres spiraled closer to each other until they gently touched - as slowly as parking a vehicle here on Earth at just a mile or two per hour - and stu...

Men With Breast Cancer More Likely to Die Than Women

In 2019, an estimated 268,600 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed in women in the US, along with 63,960 new cases of non-invasive b...

Harry Kane says Premier League win over Southampton was a 'massive statement'

Six minutes before the break, Danny Ings drew Southampton level, though the goal was more to do with a Hugo Lloris howler, the World Cup victor failing to...

India set for moon landing attempt after Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft separation

The event commenced at 13.15 pm (IST). All the systems of Chandrayaan-2 orbiter and lander are healthy and the next maneuver is scheduled for September 03 betwe...

NASA lander captures marsquakes and other Martian sounds, including wind

In March this year, NASA's InSight Lander filmed and recorded audio of what a marsquake - an quake on Mars - sounds like. NASA's Insight LANDER re...

Rockers Kiss to play music for sharks in Australia gig

Other cute travel opportunities as part of the new Airbnb Animal Experiences includes kayaking with Corgis in Florida, having afternoon tea with "naughty" she...

Astronauts Are Leaving the International Space Station

The crew landed safely at 6:59 a.m. EDT in Kazakhstan. When she leaves the space station in February 2020, she will hold the record for the longest spacefligh...

According to SpaceX's New Rocket Is the Most Powerful Rocket at Present

The brand new prototype, Starship Mk1, is predicted to check fly to achieve an altitude of 12 miles in "about one or two months", Musk mentioned, with two way...

China lunar probe sheds light on the ‘dark’ side of the moon

The China National Space Administration said the spacecraft landed on the previously unexplored area at 10.26am, with official reports coming in via the cou...

New Research Reveals that 'Planet X' Could be a Primordial Black Hole

If it's one hole, then its size is hardly more than a bowling ball, while a mass greater than the mass of the Earth ten times. "Once you start thinking about ...

'Planet Nine' may actually be a black hole

To detect objects of that mass, whether planets or black holes, astronomers can look for weird blobs of light formed when light "bends" around the object's grav...

Three black holes on a collision course

First, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) telescope, which scans large swaths of the sky in optical light from New Mexico, imaged SDSS J0849+1114. The system i...