Bad Weather Delays SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch

Chandrayaan I launched from India on Oct. 22, 2008. It was India’s first mission to the moon. Sarah Kaplan, (c) 2017, The Washington Post.

We’ve done almost no research into this area, but it’s key to living on Mars. By Maggie Koerth-Baker. Filed under Earth to Mars.

Two weeks ago, a British-owned cruise ship accidentally ran aground in one of Indonesia’s most pristine coral reefs, causing extensive damage.

The controversy continues over Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt’s statement Thursday questioning the most important scientific conclusion about climate change – namely, that it is driven by human beings.

Washington, March 14 (IANS) Rapid loss of Arctic sea ice in recent decades is partly driven by natural swings, not just global warming triggered by human activities, says a study.

The deployment of an Argo float off a research vessel. Data collected from Argo floats were used to validate a new estimate of ocean heat content.

A white dwarf star nearly 15,000 light-years from Earth apparently whips around its companion black hole once every 28 minutes, a new study suggests.

For the second consecutive year, mass coral bleaching is devastating the Great Barrier Reef, Australia’s lead management agency for the reef confirmed on Friday.

As a winter storm prepares to wallop the East Coast tonight and tomorrow (March 13 and 14), NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are keeping a close eye on the region with multiple satellites.

Mauna Loa Observatory, an atmospheric baseline station in Hawaii. Photo courtesy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured this view of Saturn’s “Death Star” moon Mimas on Nov. 19, 2016, from a distance of about 53,000 miles (85,000 kilometers).

Mankind is once again on the verge of traveling to the moon thanks to private companies who now play a leading role in the future of space exploration.

Orion parachute test sequence on March 8, 2017, at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving ground in Arizona. Photo Credits: NASA. NASA conducted another Orion parachute test on Wednesday, March 8, 2017, and the test vehicle performed perfectly.

The earliest supermassive black holes have always puzzled astronomers. These ancient voids – about a billion times the mass of the Sun – were discovered more than a decade ago and formed only 800,000 years after the Big Bang.

APPROVED BY PH. In this file photo, a copy of the draft of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change is pictured at the Philippine delegation office at the COP21 climate conference in Paris, France, December 2015.

UC San Diego may accelerate plans to preserve its climate data due to growing concerns among faculty members that the Trump administration could interfere with their work.

Bogoslof Volcano blew again Monday morning, marking its thirty-seventh explosion since the volcano roared back to life three months ago.

Anheuser-Busch InBev (BUD) partnering with Keurig Green Mountain coffee to develop at-home alcoholic pods is a “potential game changer,” Jefferies analysts Edward Mundy and Cole Hathorn said in a note Monday.