Orionid meteors appear every year around this time when Earth travels through an area of space littered with debris from Halley's Comet. (Contributed ...
This meteor shower is caused by Earth passing through a portion of space that is littered with debris from Halley's Comet. NASA says patience is a key in fully ...
NEVADA CITY, Calif. October 21, 2018 – The Orionids, which peak during mid-October each year, are considered to be one of the most beautiful showers of the ...
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‘Headless Chicken Monster’ Spotted in the Deep Sea - The New York Times
A mesmerizing deep-sea dancer by the name of Enypniastes eximia is enjoying a moment in the limelight after being filmed in the Southern Ocean off East ...
A deep-sea swimming sea cucumber, Enypniastes eximia, also known as a headless chicken monster, has been filmed for the first time in Southern Ocean ...
Australian researchers have developed new technology enabling them for the first time to film a deep-sea swimming sea cucumber, also known as a "headless ...
Stephen Hawking's personal items are going up for auction in London. Auctioneer Christie's features 22 items from Hawking, including his doctoral thesis on the ...
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BepiColombo Spacecraft Snaps Its First Selfie From Space on Its Way to Mercury
The BepiColombo Mercury Transfer Module (MTM), which is currently on an ambitious mission to the best planet with a payload of two orbiters, has sent us its ...
ST. GEORGE — “By the light of the silvery moon” may have a whole new meaning for one Chinese city in 2020 when an illumination satellite, also referred to as ...
The world's first artificial moon could be launched by 2020, China Daily reports. China's space industry is preparing to put an artificial moon into orbit over the ...
The Chinese government is planning to launch a “fake moon” into space in two years, and it could save that country hundreds of millions of dollars in annual ...
Using the orbiting Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, an international research group that includes NASA researchers has named a constellation of gamma ...
NASA has used certain characters from modern myths such as the "Hulk" and "Godzilla" to name its new set of 21 gamma-ray constellations constructed in ...
When Godzilla made his screen debut in 1954, he was, like most Japanese media of the era, designed just for Japan. But in the decades since, the King of the ...
It's probably the only time Albert Einstein, Godzilla and the Incredible Hulk will ever share an accolade, but the iconic figures are now part of constellations of ...
NASA calls it the "Ignition Overpressure Protection and Sound Suppression water deluge system" and it is truly a sight to behold. Just watch it in action: ...
A newly launched mission to Mercury has beamed home its first photo from space. The European-Japanese BepiColombo mission captured a selfie showing an ...
SpaceX plans to launch one final commercial Falcon 9 mission from Pad 39A before much of the historic facility's availability is taken over Crew Dragon and ...
Saturday night should provide a good opportunity to see the peak of the Orionid meteor shower, and a great opportunity to check out the nearly full moon.
Skies will be clearing quickly Saturday, leaving skies clear for the annual Orionid Meteor Shower! The shower runs from October 2nd through November 7th ...
THE GALAXY - Make sure you take a look at the night sky this weekend. Shooting stars will be visible all over the world -- as the Orionid meteor shower hits its ...
NASA's ongoing, decades-long survey of polar ice has yielded some truly incredible photographs over the years, but one recent still captured what appears to ...
A 12-pound chunk of the moon that fell to the Earth as a lunar meteorite has been sold at auction for more than $600000, the AP reports. Boston-based RR ...
Beijing (AFP) - China is planning to launch its own 'artificial moon' by 2020 to replace streetlamps and lower electricity costs in urban areas, state media ...
China is once again channeling science fiction in one of its most ambitious projects to date: an “artificial moon” to light up the streets of Chengdu city.
Two of science's biggest beasts — Stephen Hawking and Martin Rees — predict the inevitable rise of a super race. Review by James McConnachie. CARSTEN ...
Celebrity scientist Stephen Hawking does it again. In his final book—in development while he was alive and completed later—he gives us an addictive manual ...
Many of the objects NASA and other scientific bodies choose to study in space are incredibly old, but that's not the case with Kes 75. Located a mere 19000 light ...
ON LAKE MICHIGAN - On a sunny July morning, a group of teenagers gathered in a circle aboard a 71-foot research vessel named the Neeskay. The teens ...
Cloud-free conditions will allow much of the United States to see this weekend's Orionid meteor shower, the first major shower of the fall. The Orionids will peak ...
Tonight (Oct. 20) is International Observe the Moon Night, an annual celebration allowing people all over the world to enjoy the science and beauty of our ...
A lake in northern Greece has been transformed into a scene out of horror movie after it was cloaked in a 1000-metre web spun by a huge swarm of spiders.
Spiders in a town in Greece have been busying weaving lots of webs. Halloween has come early to Lake Vistonida in north-earthern Greece where trees and ...
Dubbed "NewSpace", an increasing number of entrepreneurs are joining in the race to create cheap, commercialised space travel. Among these are billionaires ...
(CNN) Two minutes into his first trip to space last Thursday, US astronaut Nick Hague found himself thinking how smoothly the flight was going. "It was ...
Scientists like to use x-rays when determining chemical structures to develop drugs, but it's an agonizingly slow process. As they need large, pure crystals, i...
As we go about our daily routines on Earth, Japanese robots are literally hopping about on the surface of a primitive asteroid called Ryugu, some 280 million km ...
India News: BENGALURU: In a few weeks' time, India will send its second probe to the Moon—Chandrayaan-2—for lunar studies with an orbiter that carries a ...
Does one parent take too much free time for themselves? Are you not finding enough time for yourself as a new parent? Here's how to tackle the problem with ...
By studying the effect of genetic variations on lifespan across the human genome, researchers have devised a way to estimate whether an individual can expect ...
Penitentes - large pointed spikes of ice - are known on Earth and Pluto. Jupiter's moon Europa might have them, too, according to new research. If they're there, ...
"The blob" is back. No, not the 1958 drive-in, sci-fi classic creature from the movie starring Steve McQueen. Canadian meteorologists have dubbed a recurring ...
The 'blob' has returned to the northwest coast, and it could bring an unusually warm winter with it. Located in the northern Pacific, just off the shore of Northern ...
The “blob” has returned to the northwest coast, and it could bring an unusually warm winter with it. Located in the northern Pacific, just off the shore of northern ...
The Morrison government has abandoned plans for a $10 million campaign promoting the Great Barrier Reef's promising future, after a public backlash over its ...
They are the rainforests of the sea: vast, multi-layered underwater towers brimming with brightly coloured fish, turtles and many other species set in an azure sea ...
Updated Oct. 16: The Orionid meteor shower is set to peak this weekend overnight on the night of Oct. 21-22, but the moon will lead to subpar views for this night ...
We all know that dogs can learn to respond to human words, but it's not always clear what's happening in a dog's brain when they hear and recognize words like ...
New research has looked into how much dogs can really understand when we talk to them. There has long been debate among scientists whether dogs can ...
