OSIRIS-REx is scheduled to return to Earth in 2023 with the sample and promises to be the largest amount of extraterrestrial material brought back from space since the Apollo era...
Last month was also the hottest September on Earth since 1880
Oct 16
However, 43% of Democrats attach extreme personal importance to climate change, compared to 22% of independents and 4% of Republicans
Oct 13
'So our Big Bang began with something which was the remote future of a previous eon and there would have been similar black holes evaporating away, via Hawking evaporation,' Penrose said
Oct 9
One of the exoplanets called KOI 5715.01 has four of the critical characteristics, making it possibly much more comfortable for life than our home planet
Oct 8
In 2003, Mars made its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, and it will not be that close again until 2287
Oct 6
The country’s policies are expected to result in more than 0.1 °C warming over the northern latitudes.
Oct 2
Agreeable and diligent individuals, on the other hand, are slightly more unlikely to hold such unfounded beliefs
Oct 1
Musk said in a tweet that SpaceX is prioritizing catering to emergency responders and locations with no Internet connectivity
The changes between night and day temperatures will have profound consequences for the species inhabiting those regions and their ability to adapt in the face of the changing climate, the researchers said
Sep 30
An expert said that the current quakes are near the 1981 Westmoreland earthquake, located in the seismically active Imperial Valley
However, genetic influence is not strong enough to act on its own, suggesting that other factors could be at play
The researches said bad weather conditions were not ‘the’ cause of the pandemic, but likely worsened the already explosive situation
Sep 29
Conducted before the Covid-19 outbreak reached pandemic proportions, the report is based on a survey of more than 32,000 telephone and in-person interviews
Sir Robert Watson, former chair of the IPBES, said, 'Without countries such as the USA, Brazil, China, Russia, India and Australia we cannot succeed'
Besides confirming the presence of a lake first detected in 2018, the study says that three more have been detected under the Martian surface
The exoplanet in question is WASP-189 b and is dubbed hot Jupiter due to the similarities it shares with a gas giant like Jupiter
Sep 28
The super-enzyme will help reduce reliance on fossil resources such as oil and gas
These objects are dead, failed satellites or smaller pieces left behind by a rocket have now become debris
For half of the time life has existed on Earth, there was no oxygen present. Researchers wondered what supported life back then
Sep 27
The sleep-tracking gadget named Dormio can alter dreams by manipulating a sleep stage, which occurs when the mind transitions from experiencing drowsiness to a time when it loses consciousness
Sep 26
Above-average sea surface temperatures are one reason why Paulette came back to life, say experts
Sep 25
If astronauts were to live on the surface of the Moon for prolonged periods, the shelter should be covered by about 80 cm of lunar soil to absorb most of the surface radiation
'We have a strategy to be as bold as the problem is big, to recognize that we have agency. We’re not just victims of fate,' Newsom said
Alexander Fleming’s original penicillin-producing mold was regrown from a sample, frozen over 50 years ago, and researchers extracted the DNA for sequencing
Sep 24
The rocket was a part of the Surveyor 2 mission. The spacecraft was launched on September 20, 1966, but failed to soft-land on the Moon, and the rocket disappeared
The pieces of space debris that interact with our atmosphere to create the Orionids originate from comet Halley, which takes around 76 years to make a complete revolution around the Sun.
Sep 23
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
Sep 22
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
Sep 21
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
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
Sep 20
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'
These alien worlds are likely carbon-rich and would need certain ingredients to produce the precious element: water, high heat and high pressure
Sep 19
The first time scientists ran out of names was in the 2005 season and this year, the season is far from over
According to the study, a geomagnetic storm was present during the period around the Titanic’s disaster that may have impacted navigation and communication
Sep 16
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
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