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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

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

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

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

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

The development comes after President Donald Trump signed an executive order this year, greenlighting moon mining efforts.

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

Of the 451 digital apps tested in the study, two-thirds collected data collected and shared them with third-party businesses

Recording the strange phenomenon is NASA's Insight Lander, which is tasked with studying Mars interiors

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

Finding more rust on the side facing Earth suggests that it may have some connection with our planet, say experts

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