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Two black holes likely collided and merged to create the more massive black hole which produced gravitational waves equal to the energy of eight suns, say scientists

Launched in 1964 from Cape Canaveral, the spacecraft was tasked with studying the Earth's magnetosphere, a region of space surrounding our planet

A swarm of objects in the low-Earth orbit could interfere with ground-based telescopes that scan the night skies to detect threats from near-earth objects and to unlock the mysteries of the universe

The authors predict that if the rates continue, the sea levels will rise by 17cm by the end of the century, increasing coastal flooding that could affect an additional 16 million people

In one of the graves, the team found a musical instrument carved out of a human thigh bone but the practice of shaping bones into objects could be rare

Disagreeable people tend to be hostile and abusive toward others, and they ignore others' concerns or welfare, deceive and manipulate others for their gain, according to the researchers

Persistent hotter and drier weather due to climate change, and other human factors such as land conversion for agriculture, are probable causes

In the deep sea, researchers from Australian National Univesity found a version of iron called iron-60

The technology, developed by researchers from the UK, is trained to address a problem often encountered by astronomers: differentiating real exoplanets from fake ones

The Enstatite chondrites contained enough hydrogen to deliver at least three times the amount of water present in the Earth's oceans, claims a study

The animal called Lystrosaurus roamed the Earth 250M years ago in the Early Triassic period and existed even before dinosaurs arrived

The red-colored bacteria named Deinococcus has entered the Guinness Book of World Records for being the most radiation-resistant organisms in the world

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) predicts life-threatening flooding during the next 36 hours

In the lower part of the atmosphere, also called the troposphere, ozone is notorious for causing harm to humans and plants

One or more explosions, about 65 light-years away from Earth, could have been responsible for the protracted loss of ozone and the resulting mass extinction

NASA’s close approach database states that the asteroid will probably come as close as 4,700 miles

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will look for these solo and elusive worlds that do not orbit stars and are hard to detect

Earth Overshoot Day is when humans exhaust an entire year's reserves of Earth's natural resources

The brown dwarfs are among the coolest known, with a few approaching the temperature of Earth, cool enough to harbor water clouds

The 15-feet long dolphin-like marine reptile ichthyosaur preyed on a 12 feet long, lizard-like aquatic reptile around 240 million years ago

The Somali Sengi, which can fit into the human palm, is monogamous and it has a long trunk-like nose, which helps it feed on insects

The object named 2020 QG, measured 10 to 20 feet, which is very small by 'asteroid standards', NASA stated

Researchers are still puzzled over how exactly does the microquasar drive the 'heartbeat' of the gas cloud

(12.30 AM) Major US metropolitan regions such as NYC, LA, Atlanta, Washington DC, Denver, Chicago, Miami and Dallas will make up about 60% of the total increase in projected heat exposure

On July 25, a Japanese ship named MV Wakashio ran aground after hitting the coral reef at Pointe d'Esny, off the southeastern coast of Mauritius

The ice sheet has been losing ice more rapidly than it is being replenished

The strategy can help address two issues: climate change and public health crisis, according to researchers from Cambridge University

250 of the observatory's primary reflector dish panels were compromised, along with several support cables underneath the dish

Experts worry the 2020 fire season could be catastrophic

As a primary driver for the changing climate, the abundance of many long-lived greenhouse gases continues to increase, reveals analysis

The Hubble space telescope has given scientists a peek into the past, allowing them to reconstruct the events that led up to the dimming

Forest areas that underwent active restoration recovered faster, from 2.9 to 4.4 tons of aboveground carbon per hectare per year

The woolly rhinos likely went extinct because they were ill-equipped to tolerate the rapid increase in temperature, say researchers

Researchers raise questions on whether microbes carried by microplastics threaten the fish farming industry, which has played an instrumental role in improving global food security

Theories have suggested that the universe was created from chaos, with gas swirling around and powerful explosions

The analysis reveals that the biggest black dwarfs will be the first to explode, with smaller ones taking longer to reach this stage until there are no more left to go off

The most likely scenario, according to the US Geological Survey, is that none of the quakes will exceed the magnitude of 5.4

Helping turn ordinary bricks into energy-storing ones is PEDOT — poly polystyrene sulfonate — a polymer that stores and conducts electricity

Scientists found that there is a lot of variation around Antarctica in the rate at which the ocean is melting the ice shelves, but overall, there is more loss than gain of ice shelf mass

The discovery was made possible by Dawn spacecraft which scanned the planet by flying 35 kilometers above the surface

In farming, sulfur is a crucial ingredient present in fertilizer, fungicide and soil conditioners. It is a necessary nutrient for life on Earth and is also good at fighting pests

Under Lucky Stars, a company that makes custom-made star maps of constellations, has created star maps using key dates in history to visualize the amount of junk and debris in space at that time

When endangered species go extinct or rare, so do parasite species that inhabit them. Experts from across the globe are calling for efforts to save them

Astronomers use nicknames as they are often more approachable and public-friendly than the official ones

This is the highest number ever predicted by the agency in a single season, which on an average produces 12 named storms

Thanks to an amateur astronomer, 70 scientists from 15 countries were able to witness this calcium-spewing explosion or supernova in action and study it extensively

Invasive animals, pollution, and habitat alteration take a higher toll on herbivores, say researchers

The analysis reveals that most of the newly-found colonies are situated at the margins of the emperors' breeding range and thus these locations are likely to be lost as the climate warms 

This opens up avenues for roping in more citizens to work with geologists