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More records could topple as heatwave hits most of Australia

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The Giants lost in overtime to the Eagles in Week 14, and Manning led NY to its third win of the season Sunday over Miami. The Giants were always going back...

NASA’s X-59 supersonic jet is cleared for final assembly

With the review, called the Key Decision Point-D, now complete, engineers can begin putting together NASA's first X-plane in more than 30 years. Nasa is movin...

Composite Aeroshell Will Protect NASA's 2020 Rover Throughout Journey to Mars

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This Friday is the shortest day of the year

During the winter solstice , the Earth's Northern Hemisphere is tilted away from the sun on its axis making for a colder climate and winter weather. Accord...

Starliner set for its historic debut flight on Friday morning

The Starliner will try to dock with the space station approximately a day after launching, a vital move it's going to need to perform to send future crews i...

Boeing’s Starliner gets thumbs up for Friday launch

Following the launch, if the schedule is followed, NASA is conducting a news conference with a current plan to start at 9 a.m. Boeing is one of two commerci...

NFLPA wins grievance over Jaguars fining players for missing offseason rehab

While examining the case, it was discovered the team had fined one player 25 times and cost him $700,000, and after the ruling was announced, Dante Fowler rev...

Ancient 'chewing gum' yields insights into people and bacteria of the past

The team says that this is the first time that a complete human genome has been extracted from birch pitch. Her complexion was also determined from analysis...

Europe postpones launch of planet-studying mission

This article was originally published by Business Insider . The launch would be the third launch this year for the medium-lift Soyuz rocket. Its camera lens,...

Australia has hottest day on record as deadly heatwave grips the country

The combination of the thick smoke from the fires and intense heat has triggered numerous health warnings, especially for the young and the old, and those with ...

Mars water ice beneath the surface

The concept has been called "use of resources on site". The brand new map of Mars winds helps scientists to raised perceive the workings of the Martian local ...

Scientists Reportedly Sending Weed to Space Aboard SpaceX

They want to test if any mutation or genetic adjustment will occur in a zero-gravity environment. They also plan to see is there is a way to design some more ...

United Nations climate talks in limbo as Chile calls for compromise

Climate change is still a hot topic as the summit sponsored by the United Nations dragged on past its final day Friday and into the weekend as delegates deadlo...

SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink mini-satellites

The 60 Starlink satellites are part of the second batch of SpaceXs broadband Internet mega constellation. Deployment of the 60 craft was confirmed barely one ...

Re-watch the first all-female spacewalk via NASA

The first-ever all-female spacewalk is underway. Livestreamed by NASA , the pair exited the Quest airlock and ventured to the far side of the ISS on the Port...

Blue Origin Launches Space Tourism Test Rocket

The reusable rocket reached a maximum altitude of about 65 miles (105 kilometers), crossing the internationally recognized Kármán line that marks the beginnin...

Astounding ‘Geminid’ Meteor Shower to illuminate Night Sky — ASTRONOMY

The shower traditionally delivers bright, impressive meteors that light up the sky. Over 100 meteors are recorded in this composite image taken during the pea...

NASA unveils map of most accessible water ice on Mars

Sylvain Piqueux, a researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. These new findings, along with the growing database of research from the worldwide fleet of...

The final full moon of the decade peaks this week

According to the Farmers' Almanac , the last full moon of the decade will peak Thursday, December 12, at 12:12 a.m. EST. December's full Moon has tra...

Final full moon of 2019 -- will it bring cooler weather?

When is the full moon in December ? Tonight's full moon will have a high trajectory across the sky, meaning it will show above the horizon for a relatively ...

Greta Thunberg named 'Time' 2019 person of the year

This August, Thunberg sailed across the Atlantic Ocean from England to NY on a zero-carbon yacht to make a statement about reducing emissions. "I shouldn't be...

Rare Black Super Moon rises tonight

Here's where it gets a bit tricky: The black moon has a different schedule in the Western Hemisphere and the Eastern Hemisphere (Asia, Africa, Australia, Euro...

NASA shows off SLS at Artemis Day

The SLS rockets are the main launch vehicle now commissioned for NASA's Artemis missions, which the space agency intends to use to return to the moon. It's o...

From Bad to Worse for Greenland's Ice Sheet

Since 1992, 3.8 trillion ice mass has been found to melt. If you put all that ice into a single cube it would be 16 kilometres along each side and twice the hei...

SpaceX Successfully Delivers 'Mighty Mice' To International Space Station

Dragon was launched into space Thursday from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard the Falcon 9 rocket. "Every time we welcome a brand new vehicle on board, we take...

Lesbian astronaut cut from NASA's all-female spacewalk due to wardrobe malfunction

According to NASA , last week when Hague performed the first operation with astronaut Anne McClain , there was an issue with the fit of McClain's spacesuit: ...

Beijing advances space ambitions with far-side moon landing

Like its predecessor, Yutu-2, capable of enduring vacuum pressure, intense radiation and extreme temperatures, is equipped with four scientific payloads, includ...

World Bank says lending to China to drop

The 17-month long trade war has heightened the risks of a global recession and fuelled speculation that Beijing will unleash more stimulus measures to prop up s...

SpaceX delivers "powerful mice", worms and robots to the space station

According to NASA , the spacecraft will deliver "critical materials to directly support" dozens of the more than 250 upcoming "science investigations and tec...

Chinese City Wants to Launch Fake Moon to Illuminate Its Streets

The reflected sunlight can cover an area of 3,600 sq km to 6,400 sq km, and the illumination intensity is expected to be eight times of the moonlight, he said...

SpaceX Dragon Ship Carrying NASA Cargo Successfully Launched

The spacecraft was carrying critical supplied for ISS. This delivery, SpaceX's 19th cargo flight to the space station under NASA's Commercial Resupply Servi...

This Is the Future: SpaceX successfully sends Saudi satellite into orbit

National Security Space missions - coveted military contracts worth billions. First, the two side boosters separated. If successful, Arabsat will reportedly b...

NASA's probe soaring near sun reveals surprises about solar wind

Dr Chen said: "Over the next few years the spacecraft will get closer and closer to the Sun , down to a distance of less than 10 solar radii from the surfa...

SpaceX cargo launch kicks off busy month for International Space Station

NASA and SpaceX are both expected to broadcast the launch live, with coverage SpaceX to start about 15 minutes before lift-off. A cargo ship with more than 5...