The Cassini spacecraft will reach its grand finale on September 15, when it will plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere, where the temperature and pressure will crush and vaporize the craft into oblivion. The death dive takes place almost 20 years after the spacecraft first launched and marks the end of one the […]
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View photos Emergency vehicles at a roadblock set up near a chemical plant in Crosby, Texas, where fires erupted overnight, forcing an evacuation of the surrounding area (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski) More Orange (United States) (AFP) – Emergency workers in storm-hit southeast Texas on Thursday staged dramatic rescues by air and […]
Mike Cossey, of Bureau Veritas, uses an air monitor to check the quality of air at a police roadblock marking the 1.5-mile perimeter of the evacuation area around the Arkema Inc. chemical plant Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017, in Crosby, Texas. The Houston-area chemical plant that lost power after Harvey engulfed […]
LOS ANGELES — An executive with the company that provided launch services for more than 70 satellites launched on a Soyuz in July said there is no evidence that the failure of several of those satellites was caused by the rocket. In an Aug. 31 interview, Vsevolod Kryukovskiy, launch program […]
Fungal diseases are increasing in animals, which might have serious consequences for wildlife living in a hotter world, said a scientist. A new study shows that fungal infections reduced the heat tolerance of frogs by up to 4 degrees Celsius.
At 200,000 light years across, NGC 1365 is one of the largest known galaxiesESO/IDA/Danish 1.5 m/ R. Gendler, J-E. Ovaldsen, C. Thöne, and C. Feron By Ken Croswell You may be able to thank the Milky Way’s spiral arms for supplying Earth with a fair share of the vital element […]
WASHINGTON — The latest North Korean missile tests come at time when the U.S. defensive shield is weakened, missile-defense analysts say, by this summer’s loss of a pair of warships specially outfitted for ballistic-missile defense (BMD). A Standard Missile (SM)-3 launches for a test from the USS Fitzgerald, a guided-missile […]
A fossil of an ancient armored dinosaur was so well-preserved that scientists think it could help explain something about modern animals. Watch TV shows, movies and more on Yahoo View, available now on iOS and Android. About Newsy Newsy: Newsy filters out the hype to deliver a fresh take on […]