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Florida Panhandle boarding up for hurricane Michael

11 October 2018, 10:48

Multiple airports were closed on Wednesday, including Tallahassee International Airport, Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport, Pensacola International Airport and Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport. "It's going to be frightful", Thomas told...

Hubble in Safe Mode as Gyro Issues are Diagnosed

11 October 2018, 03:29

Worry rippled through the astronomical community this weekend as NASA announced that the Hubble Space Telescopewas in safe mode - but NASA confirmed in a statement released yesterday (Oct. The telescope, which travels the Earth at about five mile...

Jupiter’s Europa might be a spiky, unsafe place to land a ship

11 October 2018, 02:25

This is because of the large seas of liquid underneath the surface However, the team of researchers have found a potential problem with landing a spacecraft on Europa , due to the tall, sharp ice. You might not think it when you peer out at an ice-c...

Australia Will Keep Burning Coal To Produce Electricity Despite Stern IPCC Warning

10 October 2018, 11:12

Leaders from countries such as Botswana and Namibia can not let-up on the global stage in pushing for nation states to make good on, and further improve, their pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris Agreement . Environmen...

Five things we have learned from the IPCC report

10 October 2018, 11:03

Increasingly, you don't have to convince Australian farmers of that. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) discovered that the extra 0.5 C rise would create many more problems, particularly in the poorest parts of the world.

Hurricane Michael gains strength as Floridians flee to higher ground

10 October 2018, 07:58

The unexpected brute quickly sprang from a weekend tropical depression and grew swiftly into what could be one of the Panhandle's worst hurricanes in history, with destructive wind, up to a foot of rain and a life-threatening storm surge of up to 13 ...

Draconid meteor shower 2018: When and where to see the Draconids TONIGHT?

10 October 2018, 06:53

The Draconid meteor shower once again lit up the October night skies as Earth passes through a stream of dust left by comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner. They are named after the constellation Draco , where they seemingly come from. Unlike other showers...

Hurricane Michael Expected to Grow into a Major Hurricane

10 October 2018, 05:44

Hurricane Michael is about 295 miles south of Panama City and has reached major hurricane strength with highest sustained winds of 120 mph. "I haven't made up my mind yet, but I know some of my staff are going", said Dave Trepanier, owner of Firefl...

Virgin Galactic to reach space in 'weeks not months'

10 October 2018, 03:28

Branson, who founded Virgin Galactic in 2004, originally promised suborbital flights - those that reach space without orbiting the planet - by 2009. And that'll be a legitimate offsettable business expense for professional Instagrammers, so there oug...

Major UN report says climate change is worse than first thought

10 October 2018, 02:43

Even with the promises countries have made as part of the Paris Agreement to cut the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming , the world is set to breach the 1.5C threshold by around 2040. "The latter would be used as part of a now nonexi...

Scott warns Floridians of hurricane 'devastation,' storm surge

10 October 2018, 01:00

The National Hurricane Center predicted Tuesday that tropical-storm-force winds would probably arrive on the southern coast early Wednesday morning. Gov. Roy Cooper said Tuesday that Michael isn't expected to hit his state as hard as Florence...

SpaceX launches rocket over San Diego, then sticks the landing

09 October 2018, 05:14

While many people's first instinct was to think aliens were en route, it was, in fact, a SpaceX rocket launch. While the company says this is the 30th landing of a booster, this is the first land touchdown on the West Coast - the rest have happen...

Rock used as doorstop is actually a meteorite worth $100K

09 October 2018, 02:25

But imagine if a rock used for such purposes fetched you more than $100,000 (over Rs.70 lakhs in INR). While touring the property, the man spotted the rock propping open a door and asked the farmer what it was. Weighing 22 pounds, it's the sixth-larg...

Rapid, unprecedented change needed to halt global warming - U.N

09 October 2018, 07:56

Countries in the southern hemisphere will be among the worse off, the report said , "projected to experience the largest impacts on economic growth due to climate change should global warming increase". Emissions cuts in transport, buildings, indu...

Hubble gyroscope failure puts space telescope into safe mode

09 October 2018, 01:22

Astronomers are anxiously awaiting the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope , scheduled for 2021, but until then Hubble remains the most powerful space telescope in the sky - and the best tool for peering deep into space. "Not really scary, we k...

Tropical storm Michael upgraded to hurricane in Gulf of Mexico

09 October 2018, 12:27

Forecasters say it could be a Category 2 hurricane or stronger by the time it makes landfall. "Life-threatening storm surge is possible along portions of the Florida Gulf Coast regardless of the storm's exact track or intensity", the center sa...

SpaceX to launch and land Falcon 9 rocket from Southern California

08 October 2018, 09:13

A second, almost identical satellite (SAOCOM 1B) will be launched "in the near future", also aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket , Praderio said. The rocket lifted off at about 7:21 p.m. By the way: SpaceX would like to land every booster on terra ...

Unprecedented action needed to curb global warming

08 October 2018, 04:36

In the Paris accord, 197 countries agreed to the goal of holding global temperatures "well below" 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5°C. Any additional emissions would require removing Carbon dioxide from the air....

NASA probe nearing interstellar space

08 October 2018, 11:08

The Low-Energy Charged Particle instrument also detected an increase in higher energy cosmic rays . However, Voyager 2 is now in another region of the heliosphere than Voyager 1. Mission organizers expect that Voyager 2 will quantify an expansio...

MI man makes shocking discovery about 30-year-old doorstop

08 October 2018, 06:37

The 22-pound meteorite was examined under x-ray fluorescence scanning which determined that it was composed of 88 percent iron and 12 percent nickel (a metal that is relatively rare on Earth). He said the farmer who sold him the property told him it...

SpaceX West Coast launch to bring sonic booms to California

08 October 2018, 06:22

The primary goal of Sunday's mission is to place the SAOCOM 1A satellite into orbit, but SpaceX will also try for the first time to bring the Falcon's first stage back to a landing at the Vandenberg Air Force Base launch site. As The Verge noted ,...

Has NASA's Kepler Space Telescope detected first exomoon?

06 October 2018, 11:27

The new moon is bigger than any of the nearly 200 natural satellites that have been found in our own solar system and it has been discovered when the researchers monitored exoplanet Kepler-1625b as it was passing in front of its parent star.

Powerful Typhoon Kong-Rey Likely to Affect Jeju, Southern Regions

06 October 2018, 07:54

When Typhoon Kong-rey nears mainland Japan, it is now not forecast to be as strong as Jebi or even Typhoon Trami, which made landfall as a strong typhoon 157 kph (97 mph). Japan's 25th typhoon of the season is forecast thereafter to move over norther...

Hurricane Center: Caribbean system may slowly develop next week

06 October 2018, 07:43

But as this area drifts slowly north through the weekend into early next week shear will begin to lessen, and it's possible a tropical depression or weak tropical storm will form. The Cayman Islands National Weather Service advised that small craft s...

‘Monstrous’ mosquitoes 20 times larger than normal swarm Carolinas after Florence

05 October 2018, 11:38

They can be three times the size of an average mosquito and are persistent biters that can easily penetrate two layers of clothing. These type of mosquitoes often lay their eggs in low-lying areas with damp soil and grassy overgrowth. North Carol...

Astronomers posit first moon outside solar system

05 October 2018, 10:10

Astronomers believe they have discovered the first known moon beyond our solar system, in orbit around a enormous planet 8,000 light years away. No such giant moons exist in Earth's solar system. "We are unable to find any other single hypothesis...

Meteorite used as doorstop for decades worth $100,000

05 October 2018, 09:40

The Smithsonian is considering purchasing the meteorite and adding it to the museum's collection. The charred hunk of space debris is the sixth largest meteorite ever found in the state, and it's estimated worth tops $100,000. They say it's worth a...

Japanese spacecraft drops device to land on asteroid

05 October 2018, 07:07

The MASCOT lander is carrying four main instruments. That means the camera will be able to take some stunning images of Ryugu's rubble-covered surface. The Japan Space Exploration Agency said Wednesday that the Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout , or MAS...

Man makes shocking discovery about 30-year-old doorstop

05 October 2018, 06:51

The man asked about the large, odd-looking rock that was holding the door open. The then owner told the man it was part of the property, and he could keep it. Now the Smithsonian museum is considering buying the space rock, and it could fetch as much...

Americans, 1 British scientist win Nobel Prize in Chemistry

05 October 2018, 06:29

Arnold was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States in 1956 and she's now at the California Institute of Technology , Caltech, in Pasadena in the Los Angeles area". The drug is also costly, creating billions of dollars in sales around...

NASA downplays ISS leak in latest update

05 October 2018, 04:59

Russian officials, however, later denied it. The US space agency said that ruling out defects "does not necessarily mean the hole was created intentionally or with mal-intent". Currently, Expedition 57 continues station research and operations wit...

Israel And NASA Sign SpaceIL Commercial Lunar Cooperation Agreement At IAC Bremen

05 October 2018, 08:45

Plans for the Lunar Gateway were unveiled at a conference in Germany on Wednesday. Aerospace giants Lockheed and NASA evealed the plans for the 46 foot tall spacecraft that could carry four astronauts on the moon . In August, researchers f...

NU Medicine warns against treating e-cigarettes like cigarettes

05 October 2018, 03:25

Most e-cigarettes have nicotine in them, according to a July 2018 article on Pennsylvania State University's website. For this study, more than 2,000 youth in California completed three surveys over a three-year-period, allowing researchers to mode...

Scrawny dwarf planet, named Goblin, found well beyond Pluto

05 October 2018, 12:30

Sheppard, along with colleagues at the University of Hawaii, the University of Oklahoma and Northern Arizona University, found the Goblin . "The statistics get better and better that this planet is likely out there". That said, little is known about...

Lockheed Martin's Lunar Lander Seats 4 Astronauts

04 October 2018, 10:25

Having the ability to visit multiple sites with a reusable lander, such as this one presented by Lockheed Martin , supports many global, commercial and scientific collaborations, in addition to NASA's sustainable exploration of the Moon .

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