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Astronauts Aboard ISS Capture ‘Spectacular’ Snaps of Raikoke’s Eruption

Because the ISS photo was taken at an angle and not directly above the volcano, the impressive height, girth and structure of the ash plume is visible, as i...

Mysterious 'Bathtub Rings' of Titan Replicated on Earth

Exotic crystals - entirely unlike anything found naturally on Earth - might encrust the shorelines of lakes on Saturn's frozen moon, Titan. In the moon's ...

Temperatures set to soar in UK as Europe experiences heatwave

Paris on Wednesday banned gasoline powered cars built before 2006 and diesel cars built before 2011 from the city center to cut down on pollution exacerbated by...

Southern Water fined £126m for 'co-ordinated efforts to deceive'

Shamed Southern Water's former boss was paid almost £900,000 in his final year at the company - and then walked into a top job at a green energy firm where he h...

Scientists Discover a Vast Reservoir of Freshwater Hidden Beneath The Ocean

The researchers did not know how far the water was spread but they knew it existed. While the aquifer's exact size is still a mystery, it may be the largest o...

United Airlines launching month-long celebration for 50th anniversary of moon landing

There will be of alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages to celebrate Apollo 11 , including Tang-infused cocktails. Starting as early as July 1 there will be a ...

Squid 'size of a car' captured on camera

But big - at least 3 to 3.7 meters (10 to 12 feet) long'. Though we've have known about its existence for some time, there had never been evidence of its exis...

Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques returns to Earth

The expedition commander Oleg Kononenko of Russian Federation has ended his fourth space mission. The trio's launch on Dec 3 was the first after a Soyuz rock...

Swimming in ocean increases infection risk

Each participant, the study notes, had a unique microbiome "community" on their skin, but after swimming, each appeared very similar. "While swimming normal res...

High Amounts of Methane Discovered on Mars

Just for Curiosity fixed two navigation and 17 "normal" cameras, he continuously sends information since its arrival on Mars in August 2012. The Rosalind Frankl...

SpaceX to launch Falcon Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida

The most powerful rocket from Elon Musk's SpaceX is set to take to the skies once again. The remains of 152 people are on board the upcoming Falcon Heavy ...

Methane spike could be sign of life on Mars

Vasavada said in an internal email obtained by the outlet. It's a particularly riveting discovery because the methane levels discovered by the rover are about t...

Laced with poison: 500 vultures die in Botswana after eating poisoned elephants

Conservationists say the tragedy marks one of the largest killings of endangered vulture species on record. The vast majority of the victims were Critically E...

United Kingdom minister apologizes after grabbing climate protester

Mr Field has come under fire for what some have branded an " horrific " act after he grabbed a climate change activist by the next at a black-tie dinner at M...

Uranus Rings Are Nothing Like Any Others In The Solar System

While that sounds cold by Earthly standards, consider that most of space is much colder, approaching a temperature at which atoms stop moving. Uranus is among...

Apollo 11 flag and other space artifacts head to auction

The 70 mm film comprises "126 of probably the most iconic photos from the first lunar-landing mission", in keeping with an announcement from the auction house, ...

Melting Arctic sea ice forces sled dogs to slosh through water

Danish meteorologist Steffen Olsen and his band of sled dogs are walking on thin ice - across a frozen sea that has become flooded with melted glacial waters. I...

Third Falcon Heavy launch targeted on the Space Coast

SpaceX's flagship rocket, the Falcon 9, is a 5-star space taxi, having now ferried more than 60 satellites into orbit in a single launch. Among the satellites t...

Mysterious Whale Skull From The 1980s Confirmed As Narwhal-Beluga Hybrid

He therefore kept the skull and placed it on the roof of his toolshed. The animals described by the hunter were like no cetacean ever before seen, so the sing...

Scientists Discovered Two New Earth-like Planets

It's surface temperature is 2,700 levels C, and its mass is just one-tenth that of the sun. Teegarden's star is one of our solar system's closest neighbours a...

This Year The Ice Of Greenland Started Melting Too Soon

While researching oceanographic moorings and a weather station, Steffen Olsen snapped a picture of his sled dogs pushing through a fjord, the sea ice submerge...

Protests, legal challenges planned to block Trans Mountain expansion

But he also said approving such a project while committing to lowering Canada's carbon emissions was an "entirely coherent" approach, referencing arguments made...

A rogue Raspberry Pi helped hackers access NASA JPL systems

Or perhaps it's more accurate to say the lab mismanaged the database and that, combined with other lackadaisical security practices, led to a Raspberry Pi bei...

Coal industry reacts to new EPA rule

That could leave IN - a heavily coal-fired state - without a baseline to follow. "I'm glad that the current leadership here at the EPA understands that we can...

Astronomers have found two new planets that could potentially support life

The Teegarden star's diminutive size has led researchers to determine it takes just 4.9 and 11.4 days for Teegarden b and c to circle it, respectively. Teegar...

NASA’s next Moon mission could be delayed again

The GAO additionally reported that Boeing might have performed extra to maintain the launch on schedule. GAO is making four recommendations to NASA, including...

DNA proves Greenland man spotted first known beluga-narwhal

They were all described in the study as having "pectoral flippers shaped like those of belugas, and a tail shaped like that of a narwhal". Belugas boast rows of...

The Earliest Example of Merging Galaxies Ever Found

Previous observations with the Hubble Space Telescope revealed two star clusters in B14-65666. It showed that while the two blobs are distinct, they form a sing...

Ancient hyenas lived in the ARCTIC

We now have "physical evidence of Chasmpaporthetes travelling through, or living in, the Arctic region between their ancestral home in Asia and their newfound...

Trump administration replaces Obama-era power plant rule, in boost to coal

Wheeler told reporters after the signing that he expected new coal plants to open as a result. Critics of the plan say it doesn't go far enough to fight climat...