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Meteorite spotted off I-77 ahead of Lyrid meteor shower this week

The best time to watch it - according to astronomers - is between midnight and dawn. Lyrids meteor shower is created by debris from "Thatcher Comet"; where ...

Stunning Lyrid Meteor Shower To Light Up The Sky This Week

On average, people can expect to witness as many as 18 meteors per hour. From now through April 25th, the Lyrid meteor shower will put on its annual sh...

US Space Command Condemns Russian Anti-Satellite Missile Test

The U.S. Space Command announced that it is aware and tracking Russia's direct-ascent anti-satellite (DA-ASAT) missile test-launched on April 15, 2020. "And no ...

NASA Set May 27 Launch Date for Crewed SpaceX Mission

SpaceX has taken all the steps necessary to get to this stage ahead of Boeing , and this flight, called Demo-2, while still technically part of the test progr...

First manned SpaceX Crew Dragon flight set for May 27 liftoff

On Friday, April 17, 2020, NASA and SpaceX announced May 27 for resuming human launches from the US after almost a decade. The mission had been previously ann...

Scientists discover potentially habitable planet

An worldwide team of scientists has discovered a remarkably Earth-like exoplanet located 300 light-years away in the Cygnus constellation. The newly disco...

Shell aims to be a net zero emissions business by 2050

Shell will achieve its net-zero goal by or before 2050 by producing and selling more products with a zero-carbon or lower carbon footprint, including renewable ...

'Dancing' star's weird, spirograph orbit proves Einstein right (again)

For example, if there were another object inside S2's orbit close to Sgr A*, like say another black hole , it would have to have a mass less than 1000 times th...

NASA's Curiosity Mars Team Is Controlling the Rover From Home

The operation involved sending a series of commands to Curiosity telling the rover to drill a rock sample from a location on the Red Planet named Edinburgh....

Russian space crew from International Space Station lands safely in Kazakhstan

It was seen on the live broadcast that while removing the team members from the capsule and performing health checks the search and rescue teams wore masks and ...

WHO Thanks India For Using Polio Surveillance Network In COVID-19 Fight

The number of cases in the state has risen to 1,076. About Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's allegation that India was not conducting enough coronavirus tests, t...

Earth-sized habitable zone planet found after boffins check for errors

The scientists say that Kepler-1649c orbits the red dwarf very closely (one year is just 19.5 Earth days). However, Kepler-1649c is by far the most intriguing ...

Was the new Corona Virus produced in a Chinese Laboratory?

She writes that one of the things that raised suspicions in the U.S. intelligence community is the fact that China was so quick to peg the virus' source as th...

Fascinating Discovery Suggests Neanderthals Invented String

An global team, including researchers from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, discovered the cord on a flint fragment from the pr...

Natural or alien tech: How interstellar object Oumuamua got its unusual shape

Their formation theory explains all of 'Oumuamua's unusual characteristics. The planet's near and far parts would be separated into pieces, forming an elong...

Interstellar Visitor Oumuamua Might Be An Active Asteroid

It was the first known interstellar object to visit our solar system, an elongated, cigar-shaped body which some scientists initially suggested might be an ali...

Health Canada Approves Portable COVID-19 Test

Spartan says shipments will being "immediately". "I think it will make a lot of difference to areas that have less access right now to the turnaround time", s...

Scientists have discovered the most powerful Supernova in history

However, the newly found supernova, named SN2016aps, released radiation more than five times the explosive energy of an ordinary supernova. Astronomers have w...

NASA Astronauts Are Returning To the Earth

The rocket carried NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy along with two Russian cosmonauts Anatoli Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner on board. Meir said it will be hard not ...

Thousands of Mainers still without power after spring nor'easter

Power outages in some regions appear "to be the largest since the October 2017 wind storm", said the Caribou National Weather Service . The National Weather ...

Coronavirus: Vaccine hopes boosted as scientists find virus has 'low shielding'

The study, published on the website of the journal Science on Wednesday, found that ferrets can also become infected with SARS-CoV-2, the scientific term for th...

BepiColombo: Mercury mission set to wave goodbye to Earth

Fortunately, the spacecraft was well prepared to make the most of the opportunity since, in addition to its more technical scientific instruments, BepiColombo ...

Most coronavirus cases in NY came from Europe, new studies show

The cases came from two towns in Westchester county and 21 New York City neighborhoods across Manhattan, Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn. A new genetic study revea...

COVID-19: Premier Legault confirms 31 dead at Dorval seniors' residence

The Quebec government has not ruled out reopening schools and daycares earlier than planned - but Legault said no decision has been made yet as the pandemic rem...

First Warning Forecast: Beautiful Saturday, severe storms late Easter Sunday

Whether a weak tornado or severe storm , damaging winds at 50-70mph are possible, higher in a tornado. The most immediate threatening weather though is in th...