A new space telescope that could spot potentially hazardous asteroids and comets heading for Earth is one step closer to reality.The Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope, or NEO Surveyor, has been approved by NASA to move forward to the design…
Nearly a billion years ago, two of the most extreme objects in the universe came together in a death spiral, and one of them didn't make it out alive.For the first time ever, astronomers have detected two separate instances of…
Here's a look at the 2022 Winter Olympics scheduled to be held in Beijing. The games are scheduled to take place February 4-20, 2022. The Paralympics are scheduled to take place March 4-13, 2022.FactsBeijing is the capital of China, and…
Here's a look at the 2022 Winter Olympics held in Beijing. The games took place February 4-20, 2022. The Paralympics took place March 4-13, 2022.FactsBeijing is the capital of China, and its population is over 20 million. It is one…
On September 22, 2020 while out filming, Indigenous Guatemalan journalist Andrea Ixchíu Hernández was attacked shortly after she had reported illegal loggers operating in the Totonicapán forest."One of them hit me on the head, the other one on my chest…
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Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council has issued arrest warrants for two prominent Iraqi political analysts, prompting backlash from activists and some politicians who say it's an attempt to intimidate critics of the government.Political analysts Ibrahim al-Sumaidaie and Yahya al-Kubaisi were respectively…
The outpouring of grief and anger over the news that six Asian women were among those killed in the shootings at three Atlanta area massage parlors has drawn attention to the rise of anti-Asian violence in the US.And it's not…
The largest asteroid that has been predicted to make a close approach of Earth this year will zip by from a safe distance on Sunday, according to NASA.Scientists estimate the asteroid is between 1,300 and 2,230 feet wide.The near-Earth asteroid,…
Volcanic activity has "somewhat decreased" in the Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland, southwest of the capital Reykjavík, where a volcano erupted Friday night, the the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) announced Saturday.The current eruption is "small" with the "volcanic activity" having "decreased…
An angry snake, a fiery van, and a daring rescue. These are the must-watch videos of the week.'It almost got me'An angry, reticulated python lunged at Jay Brewer, owner of The Reptile Zoo in Fountain Valley, California, while he was…
The astronauts on the International Space Station have already conducted five spacewalks so far this year -- and now they have relocated a spacecraft outside of the orbiting laboratory.Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, along with NASA astronaut Kate…
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The Space Launch System rocket that will launch NASA's Artemis astronauts into space on their way to the moon went through a final and successful hot-fire test of the core stage on Thursday.The test took place at NASA's Stennis Space…
(CNN) — Here is a look at Russian opposition leader, Kremlin critic and activist Alexey Navalny.Personal Birth date: June 4, 1976Birth place: Butyn, Soviet UnionBirth name: Alexey Anatolyevich Navalny (sometimes spelled Alexei, Aleksei)Father: Anatoly Navalny, former military officer and basket-weaving…
We first heard the sounds of Martian wind and a laser zapping rocks on Mars. Now, the Perseverance rover has returned audio of itself driving across the Martian surface.Every new sound sent back by the rover is an exciting first…
Coronavirus reinfections are rare, but it's more common for people 65 and older to get infected more than once, according to a study published Wednesday in the Lancet medical journal.The study, which looked at reinfection rates among 4 million people…
Scientists have discovered a "myriad" galaxies that were of previously undetected. The newly found systems were observed with the world's most advanced optical telescope.Cosmological models had long predicted the existence of filaments -- gas in which galaxies are created --…
The first observed interstellar object zipped through our solar system in October 2017 -- and astronomers have been trying to understand it ever since.Scientists scrambled to observe the object before it disappeared, moving along at 196,000 miles per hour, and…
The ice sheet that covers the northernmost reaches of our planet has expanded and shrunk over the past 2 million years -- but it was thought that Greenland's bitter cold and miles-deep ice had been a more or less constant…
