After 9 years in space and over 2,600 planetsdiscovered, NASA said it’s finally time to retire the Kepler Space Telescope.
Author: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY
93 percent of the world’s children breathe toxic, polluted air each day
Nearly 2 billion children – about 93% of the world’s children under the age of 15 – breathe toxic, putrid air, a new report said.
By itself, bitcoin could create climate chaos within 20 years
If bitcoin use continues to grow, it could alone produce enough carbon emissions to raise global temperatures by almost 4 degrees F as soon as 2033.
Far out! Astronomers get close-up view of bizarre blue asteroid
Astronomers Tuesday announced that late last year, they’d gotten a close-up view of Phaethon, a bizarre blue asteroid that sometimes acts like a comet.
Fall foliage: As East ‘disappoints,’ the West is best
Although the fall foliage season has been a ”dud’ so far in parts of the East, leaf-peepers in the western U.S. are enjoying apretty good season.
Hurricane Willa now an ‘extremely dangerous’ Category 4 storm as it nears Mexico
Hurricane Willa has grown rapidly into a extremely dangerous’ Category 4 storm in the eastern Pacificon a path toward Mexico’s western coast
Salty water on Mars could have enough oxygen to support life
Brinywaterjust below the Martian surface hasthe potential to hold enough oxygen molecules to support life, a new study reports.
100 years ago, influenza killed as many as 50 million people. Could it happen again today?
100years ago, death came with astonishing speed. In October 1918, someinfluenza patients admitted in the morning would be dead by the evening.
Hurricane Chris forms off US East Coast, life-threatening surf, rip currents possible
Hurricane Chris formed late Tuesday afternoon in the Atlantic Ocean. Other than churning up some rough seas along the East Coast, Chris poses no direct threat to the USA. It could clip Newfoundland, Canada.
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