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Huge Geminid meteor shower fireball caught on police dashcam

All you need is to find a dark patch of sky (relatively free from clouds) and a rural area with less light pollution . They travel at a rate of 22 miles per se...

Russian Cosmonauts Conduct Spacewalk to Investigate ISS Hole

Back in August, ISS crew members noticed a slight drop in pressure on the orbiting laboratory and eventually traced this to a hole on the inside of the habitati...

China dispatches mission to investigate clouded side of the Moon

The lunar far-side mission, Chang'e 4, which launched on December 7, 2018 and arrived in lunar orbit 4.5 days later, was designed as a backup for Chang'e 3. T...

Voyager 2 Reaches Interstellar Space | Space Exploration

Scientists define the Solar System in different ways, so Prof Stone has always been very careful not to use the exact phrase "leave the Solar System" in relat...

Arctic had second-lowest sea ice coverage this year

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Tuesday released its annual global Arctic report card, detailing the second warmest Arctic on record and m...

NASA's InSight Lander Snaps Gorgeous Selfie on Mars | Space Exploration

InSight also sent back a mosaic of images of its workspace - the approximately 14 x 7-foot (4 x 2 m) crescent of terrain directly in front of the spacecraft. T...

Cyclone and storms: two extreme weather systems to lash eastern Australia

It may reach category 3 intensity by Thursday morning if conditions remain favourable. The Bureau of Meteorology says the cyclone is now located northwest of ...

Queensland braced for cyclone 'havoc'

Annastacia Palaszczuk said the state had done all it can to be ready for Owen, which is expected to hit as a severe category-four storm late on Friday or early...

NASA’s InSight lander beams SELFIE back from Mars - ‘SAY CHEESE!’

Two weeks after NASA's InSight lander touched down on Mars, its precise location on Elysium Planitia has been pinpointed, thanks to pictures from NASA's Mars ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft finds water traces on asteroid Bennu

In a discovery that sheds new light on the evolution of the solar system , NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe has detected water on Bennu , the skyscraper-size as...

Google Doodle Celebrates the Geminid Meteor Shower of 2018 (And It's ADORABLE!)

Around the world, the shower will peak on 13 December or 14 December, depending on your time zone. Meteors can be seen under a dark and cloudless sky and ju...

Spacewalkers succeed in finding mystery hole in capsule

The pair then returned back inside the space station after determining that they wouldn't need to cover their handywork with a thermal blanket. NASA did not...

Extreme ecosystem: Vast, zombie-like microbial life lurks beneath seabed

Around 70% of the planet's bacteria and archaea are now thought to live underground. This so-called microbial "dark matter" dramatically expands our perspective...

Samples cut around Soyuz hole in spacewalk

Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin said in early November that the hole in the hull of Soyuz could have been drilled before the launch at the Baikonur space centre....

Dracula Ant Crowned Fastest Animal on Earth

This ant has a speedy snap-jaw. The fastest-moving animal in the world has been revealed - and scientists say speed isn't always influenced by size. Researche...

NASA's Mars lander takes a selfie with its robotic arm

The InSight spacecraft , which touched down on the flat equatorial plain Elysium Planitia on November 26, took the selfie using the camera on its 5.9-foot-...

Surviving bleached Barrier Reef coral 'more resilient to heat'

The reason why there was less bleaching previous year was that the more susceptible species of corals died off in 2016. Study co-author, James Cook Universit...

Oil Allies Refuse to Welcome Key Scientific Report at UN Climate Talks

The IPCC report found that emissions of greenhouses gases such as carbon dioxide - produced through burning of fossil fuels - need to drop significantly by 20...

Cosmonauts examine 'mysterious hole' on ISS spacewalk

The Soyuz capsule is due to transport three of the station's crew back to Earth next Wednesday. The leak was discovered in August, when cabin pressure in the ...

Chang'e-4 lunar probe to land on dark side of the moon

A spacecraft landing on the Moon's far side will be a great accomplishment, says Xiaoyu Hong, a radio astronomer at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory in ...

Water found on asteroid by OSIRIS-REx explorer

When Osiris-Rex starts orbiting Bennu in January - no easy feat since its gravity is 100,000 times less than Earth's - it will be the smallest object that a h...

Earth teeming with unusual underground organisms which may be planet's first inhabitants

The Observatory says that despite intense underground conditions including vast pressure and heat, they have discovered evidence of bacteria, archaea, and other...

Christmas phenomenon: This year's brightest comet to pass over Ireland

And while you're out there looking for comets, keep your eyes peeled for the Geminid meteor shower . In images, it can be seen glowing a gorgeous green colou...

Geminid meteor shower reaches its peak Thursday night

The Geminid meteor shower will reach its peak Thursday night into Friday morning, December 13-14. They typically enter Earth's atmosphere at about 22 miles per ...

Cos'è successo nella battaglia legale tra Apple e Qualcomm in Cina

Il divieto colpisce tutti i modelli fino all'iPhoneX, mentre lascia fuori i più recenti iPhone XS, iPhone XS Plus o iPhone XR , che non erano ancora dispon...

Voyager 2 becomes second human-made object in interstellar space

The instrument has not detected any signs of the solar wind since then. Despite the great distance, flight controllers are still in contact with Voyager 2. Ou...

Video Stella COMETA di Natale, meteo permettendo, già visibile

Il suo nome è 46P Wirtanen si sta avvicinando al sole e alla terra alla Terra a dicembre e orbiterà intorno al sole per tutto dicembre e quindi anche per ...

Put oil 'crisis' on first ministers agenda: Alberta, Saskatchewan premiers

Although Ford had been at the centre of demands to expand the agenda for the meeting, sources said neither he nor any member of his team was in the room when on...

NASA's InSight lander captures first 'sounds' of wind on Red planet

For now, it is recording wind data that scientists will later be able to cancel out of data from the surface, allowing them to separate "noise" from actual Mars...

China’s Historic Mission To The Dark Side Of The Moon Launches Tomorrow

China is poised to become the first country in the world to explore the far side of the moon with the launch of a lunar rover Saturday, another step closer to...