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Trump mocks global warming in tweet amid Midwest chill

Or, to use an analogy Trump might appreciate, weather is how much money you have in your pocket today, whereas climate is your net worth. "In coming days, expec...

Samsung is switching to eco-friendly phone packaging

Bag wrapping accessories will be substituted with eco-friendly materials. "To revamp product packaging, Samsung Electronics has formed a task force involvin...

Oldest piece of Earth found on moon

An analysis of the rock revealed that it formed at temperatures associated with Earth and in an Earth-like setting combined with oxygen. One of the oldest...

Polar Vortex Returns: Arctic Chill Follows Rain, Snow

That system will bring both rain and snow across the area as we're prone to see snow change to rain, then end as snow. The service reported that 6 inches of...

A Meteor Struck the Moon During the Total Lunar Eclipse

An awesome supercut video from The Virtual Telescope Project by astrophysicist Gianluca Masi in Ceccano, Italy showcases incredible views of the Super Blood Wo...

Lowestoft photographer's stunning 'super blood wolf moon' pictures

According to Space.com, it was the first total lunar eclipse visible from the majority of the U.S.in 19 years, and the first such celestial event visible from N...

Miss the lunar eclipse overnight? Here it is in 60 seconds

The forecast for Donegal tonight is for a cool dry night with clear skies, so viewing should be good. The eclipse's name derives from three factors - it is th...

Saturn Spent Billions of Years Without Its Rings

From Cassini's super-close vantage point, immersed in Saturn's gravity field, the spacecraft relayed measurements that led the team to another surprising di...

Total lunar eclipse set to wow star gazers, clear skies willing

What is a total lunar eclipse? The "blood" part of the nomenclature refers to the color of the moon during a full eclipse . Click "play" to hear the au...

Total lunar eclipse meets supermoon Sunday night

According to Alle, a lunar eclipse is a celestial incident where the moon appears darkened as it passes into the earth's shadow. The science centre will...

For the First Time, Plants Have Been Grown On the Moon

Another goal of the mission was to test whether plants could grow in a low-gravity environment, a test which appears to have already yielded results. The Chin...

A 'super blood wolf moon eclipse' is happening this weekend

Hoping to watch this weekend's "super blood wolf moon " eclipse from South Florida? That's why an eclipsed moon is sometimes known as a blood moon . But tha...

After conquering dark side of the moon, China targets Mars in 2020

The Chang'e-4 probe - named after a Chinese moon goddess - made the world's first soft landing on the moon's "dark side" on January 3, a major step in China's...

Antarctica Is Now Melting Six Times Faster Than It Was In 1979

Warming ocean water will only speed up ice loss in the future, and experts say sea levels will continue to mount for centuries, no matter what human do now to r...

Killer smog blankets Bangkok as Thailand issues health warnings

Ministers predict that the measures will save the United Kingdom £1.7bn in the cost of air pollution every year by 2020. Stoves and open fires are now the s...

Giant leaf for mankind? China germinates first seed on moon

The China National Space Administration released a photo Tuesday showing that cotton seeds brought to the far side of the moon by the country's Chang'e 4 ...

China broadcasts spacecraft pictures from moon's far side

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UC Berkeley study claims oceans warming faster than previously believed

A resident of Pariahan village pumps drinking water from a well, on November 28, 2018 in Bulacan, north of Manila in the Philippines. And warming oceans lead to...

Our sun ‘is going to turn into a crystal sphere’

The researchers from the UK, Canada, and the USA gathered data from the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite and discovered the evidence that white dwarfs w...

Fast radio burst (FRB): Mysterious repeating radio signal in deep space discovered

Another notable attribute of the new FRBs is their unusually low radio frequencies - coming in at 800 megahertz rather than the 1,400 megahertz of most previo...

British PM Theresa May loses key vote on Brexit procedure in parliament

The setback for the Prime Minister came as MPs started five days of debate on the withdrawal agreement with the European Union , and the framework for future r...

NASA's planet finder discovers weird new world and 6 six exploding stars

But scientists require a third transit before claiming the discovery of a candidate planet, and there wasn't a third signal in the observations they reviewed. I...

Thousands Stung by Jellyfish on Beaches in Australia

More than 18,000 stings were recorded in Queensland in December, three times more cases than previous year over the same period. Australian environmental ...

Chinese rover powers up on moon mission

Overall, Chang'e 4 is the second Chinese probe to make a soft landing on the Moon, following the Yutu (Jade Rabbit) rover mission in 2013. China's lunar r...