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Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.

Scientists in the United States and Switzerland have reported that the Earth is cooling faster than expected. Called the 'Hot Planet' by a single plate tectonic motion in the Solar System, Earth has been analyzed to be turning into cooler planets like ...

NASA has released an image of the spiral arms of the galaxy NGC 3318 captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy lies in the constellation named Vela which is about 115 million light years away from Earth. Vela is part of a larger constellation ...

NASA scientists are studying the explosion of submarine volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai to understand how features formed on the surfaces of Mars and Venus, Nature reported. The unusual explosion—which has been calculated at more than 500 times the ...

Confirmed cases of the virus remain relatively steady, but hospital numbers are slowly falling.

The space agency clarified Lagrange point in a tweet thread. “Lagrange points refer to locations where the gravitational forces of 2 massive objects — such as the Sun and Earth — are in equilibrium,” NASA said.

Children have had to travel across the border for heart surgery since 1998.

Specifically, in a medium called the quark-gluon plasma, generated in the Large Hadron Collider by colliding lead ions. There, amid the trillions of particles produced by these collisions, physicists managed to tease out 100 of the exotic motes known as X ...

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced the changes following a significant fall in new case numbers last week.

This week, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration updated the public on its Deep Space Challenge, a million-dollar challenge looking for ideas from inventors and innovators alike as to how the outfit can sustainably feed astronauts on deep-space ...

In contrast — moons such as Enceladus and Europa are IWOWs which have oceans beneath their icy crusts, but with high geological activity due to the gravitational pull of the planets they orbit. When scientists observed Mimas ...

Xi'an has been a cornerstone of the ruling Communist Party's “zero tolerance” strategy toward COVID-19 that mandates lockdowns, travel restrictions and mass testing whenever a case is discovered. Xi ...

Rocks falling on Mars leave stunning herringbone pattern: Unusual boulder tracks reveal evidence of earthquakes on the Red Planet. The boulders leave a herringbone-like pattern, thousands of which have been seen, according to research by NASA The ...

The Solar Dynamics Observatory of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has captured an image of the Sun emitting a significant solar flare on January 20, 2022. This was a mid-level solar flare which peaked at 1:01 am EST on the same ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – In less than a month, the Perseverance mission team will mark a full year since the Mars rover began exploring our neighboring planet. Briony Horgan, associate professor of planetary science, sits inside the Mars Rover Operations ...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. — SpaceX's unmanned Dragon cargo ship successfully undocked from the International Space Station on Sunday morning and is making its return to Earth. The CRS-24 cargo ship successfully exited the Space Station's "keep out sphere" at ...

As icebergs drifted by his Antarctica-bound ship, David Holland spoke this week of how the melting glacier he's cruising towards may contain warning signals for the coasts of far-off Canada. The atmospheric and ocean scientist from Newfoundland is part ...

Humans are social animals, and knowing who we can and cannot count on is crucial to our survival. For babies and young children, one indicator of how close two people are in the exchange of saliva. Be it kissing, sharing food, or any other activity that ...

The engine test-firing, called a static fire test, occurred on launch pad 46 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station as Astra prepares to deliver four small CubeSat nano-satellites into orbit under contract to NASA's Venture Class Launch Services program.

The International Space Station Flight Control Room at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. (CNN) SpaceX's unmanned Dragon cargo ship successfully undocked from ...