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Pokemon Sword and Shield first week sales top six million
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NASA Releases The First Geological Map Of Saturn’s Moon Titan
The map and their discoveries involve the comparative age of Titan's geological topography. Lopes also said that Titan's map showed that the different lan...
Mysterious Comet Will Cause a Rare ‘Unicorn’ Meteor Storm This Week
The exact time of the outburst has been calculated to 10:50 p.m. (CT) and will only last for 40 minutes. For the best view, try to get away from bright city l...
Here's What Happens When a Solar Storm Slams Into the Earth
A study conducted by the ESA on the recording was published in the Geophysical Research Letters . When they reach the magnetic field , the waves transmit th...
Leonid meteor shower peaks this weekend
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Can microscopic fossils be found on Mars by 2020 mission?
The carbonates comprise structures that could live through a fossil form for billions of years. The research is published in Geophysical Research Letters ....
Chase Young suspended 1 additional game, will return vs. Penn State
But the Buckeyes got lucky; Their two games without Young happen to be against the absolute worst of the Big Ten, and he'll return just in time for the team's b...
The Leonid meteor shower peaks this weekend
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Global oil demand growth to slow from 2025: IEA
Under the plan, the share of fossil fuels in the energy mix would drop from 81 percent previous year to 58 percent by 2040, compared with 78 percent on current ...
Mineral capable of preserving lifes signatures found on Mars
The info comes from Curiosity , the Mars rover that has been making its slow and methodical trek throughout the crater floor and up the foot of Mount Sharp ...
SpaceX safely and successfully completed tests of the Crew Dragon engine
As of August 2019, the Commercial Crew Program ( CCP ) had obligated approximately $5.5 billion out of $8.5 billion awarded for this effort. That's when the ...
Supreme Court asks Delhi government to submit data on pollution levels
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Japan spacecraft starts yearlong journey home from asteroid
Japan's Hayabusa2 probe has left Ryugu asteroid and started its 300-million-kilometer (186-million-mile) journey through space towards Earth, the Japan Aer...
Flaming Meteor Lights Up Missouri Nighttime Skies
Most sightings were reported in Missouri, but people in Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Nevada, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin registered sightings with the sci...
Silver-Backed Chevrotain Rediscovered Tiptoeing Through Vietnam
The last scientifically validated sighting was in 1990, when a hunter killed one and donated the specimen to scientists. They are the world's smallest ungulate,...
Record-Breaking Cold Weather Forecast For Much of the US This Week
Behind the cold front, there will be arctic cold air filtering into the twin states. The National Weather Service says more than 100 record lows could be re...
Mercury crosses the face of the sun
The 2019 Mercury transit is on Monday, Nov. 11 as the planet travels across the face of the sun. For those without solar filters and telescopes , there are m...
Watch Mercury Glide Across the Sun in Rare Transit
The transit begins at 1235 GMT, when the edge of Mercury appears to touch the edge of the Sun, and ends at 1804 GMT when the edge of the silhouetted planet appe...
Italy to introduce climate change in school curriculum
Italian students in every grade are about to get schooled in the climate emergency facing our planet. The Education Ministry will develop the curriculum with th...
Mercury putting on rare show Monday with parade across sun
That includes the East Coast of North America, as well as South America, western Europe, and far-western Africa. The transit or passage of a planet across the f...
Case of fine wine launched into space, but astronauts can't drink
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NASA have opened up a flawless extraterrestrial Moon rock from 1972
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United States announces official withdrawal from Paris Climate Agreement
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Mercury to make rare transit of the sun on Monday
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Students in Italy will receive a lesson on climate change
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WADA to investigate athletes coached by banned Salazar
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SpaceX's upgraded Crew Dragon parachutes breeze through 13 drop tests
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Voyager 2 just exited our solar system
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11,000 scientists warn of ‘untold suffering’ caused by climate change
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Newspaper: Israeli spacecraft crashes during moon landing
A full investigation will now begin. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu , who was present at the launch following his reelection, also commented on ...
42 years on, Voyager 2 charts interstellar space
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Special Viewing of Transit of Mercury
A transit is just like an eclipse , the planet, in this case Mercury, will pass or transit in front of the sun. The agency noted that the Mercury-Sun transit w...
Melbourne Cup: Vow and Declare wins Australia's most prestigious horse race
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Boeing's Starliner spacecraft completes its first pad abort test
Since that time, the United States has relied on purchasing seats in Russian Soyuz capsules to reach the International Space Station. Starliner is one...
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