NASA said the $28 billion represents the costs associated for the next four years in the Artemis program to land on the Moon...
'It's been a crazy year up north, with sea ice at a near-record low, 100-degree Fahrenheit heatwaves in Siberia and massive forest fires,' Mark Serreze, director of NSIDC, said
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Charged particles from the Sun streaming towards the comet in the solar wind interact with the gas surrounding the comet’s icy, dusty nucleus and create the aurora
Enceladus is 25 times smaller than Earth and the surface hides an underground ocean, where scientists hope to find extraterrestrial life
Further, roughly 630 million people, who make up the richest 10% of the world population, were responsible for over 52% of carbon dioxide emissions, the report said
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The tropical storm is expected to produce rainfall of six to 12 inches with isolated totals of 15 inches from the middle Texas coast to southern Louisiana
Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin said that the Soviet Union was 'the first and only one' to land a spacecraft on Venus, so they shouldn't be lagging behind in discovering more about the 'Russian planet'
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These alien worlds are likely carbon-rich and would need certain ingredients to produce the precious element: water, high heat and high pressure
The first time scientists ran out of names was in the 2005 season and this year, the season is far from over
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According to the study, a geomagnetic storm was present during the period around the Titanic’s disaster that may have impacted navigation and communication
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Confirming the discovery required using 45 antennas of Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile, a more sensitive telescope in which the European Southern Observatory is a partner
Sep 15
If emissions continue at a high level, most continental regions will experience an increase in the rainy season of 20-60 days by mid-century and 60-90 days by the end of the century
Sep 14
The development comes after President Donald Trump signed an executive order this year, greenlighting moon mining efforts.
Sep 11
The harsh and remote environment of mountainous frontier regions historically attracted nonconformist European settlers strongly motivated by a sense of freedom
Between 2020-2024, the annual mean global near-surface temperature is predicted to be between 0.91°C and 1.59°C above pre-industrial conditions, defined as the 1850-1900 average, says the UN report
Microgravity causes bone and muscle loss in astronomers and exposure to radiation increases the risk of cancers
Sep 10
Of the 451 digital apps tested in the study, two-thirds collected data collected and shared them with third-party businesses
Sep 8
Recording the strange phenomenon is NASA's Insight Lander, which is tasked with studying Mars interiors
Sep 7
Experts scanned the astronauts' brains before and after spaceflight, and then again seven months later. The images showed an increase in the mass of brain tissues that are thought to control movement
Two-thirds of the impact from aviation is attributed to non-carbon dioxide emissions and the rest from carbon dioxide — which between 1940 and 2018 comes upto 32.6 billion tonnes
The Oort cloud, which occupies the far reaches of the solar system, is a strange place: unlike most objects that have a disc-like orbit, this one looks like a spherical bubble wrapping the sun, planets, and their moons, along with other asteroids
Sep 6
Finding more rust on the side facing Earth suggests that it may have some connection with our planet, say experts
Sep 4
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
Sep 2
Launched in 1964 from Cape Canaveral, the spacecraft was tasked with studying the Earth's magnetosphere, a region of space surrounding our planet
Sep 1
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
Aug 31
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
Aug 30
In the deep sea, researchers from Australian National Univesity found a version of iron called iron-60
Aug 28
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
Aug 27
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
Aug 26
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) predicts life-threatening flooding during the next 36 hours
Aug 25
In the lower part of the atmosphere, also called the troposphere, ozone is notorious for causing harm to humans and plants
Aug 24
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
Aug 23
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
Aug 22
The brown dwarfs are among the coolest known, with a few approaching the temperature of Earth, cool enough to harbor water clouds
Aug 21
The 15-feet long dolphin-like marine reptile ichthyosaur preyed on a 12 feet long, lizard-like aquatic reptile around 240 million years ago
Aug 20
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
Aug 19
The object named 2020 QG, measured 10 to 20 feet, which is very small by 'asteroid standards', NASA stated
Aug 18
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
Aug 17
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
Aug 16
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
Aug 15
250 of the observatory's primary reflector dish panels were compromised, along with several support cables underneath the dish
Aug 14
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