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A mini moon about to orbit Earth may actually be a piece of space junk from the 1960s
An asteroid likely to get caught in Earth’s orbit and become a “mini moon” for several months may not be an asteroid at all but piece of space junk.
‘Very impressive rapid intensification’: Delta, now a Category 3 ‘major’ hurricane, heads for Mexico, then US Gulf Coast
Hurricane Delta, which rapidly intensified into a “major” Category 3 storm, is expected to hit Mexico on Wednesday before turning toward the U.S.
Raking leaves this fall? If you leave them be, you’re doing the planet a favor
It’s autumn and that means leaves are littering lawns around the country. Time to take out the rake and bag up them up, right? Wrong.
After brain-eating amoeba killed 6-year-old boy, it could take months to clean Texas city’s water
Authorities in Lake Jackson said the city’s boil advisory will be in effect for a few more weeks, then chlorine will be pumped through the system.
Is Gamma on the way? Tropical wave in Caribbean would be season’s 24th storm
Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center are tracking a tropical wave in the Caribbean Sea that could become Gamma, 2020’s 24th named storm.
Three more bodies of water may have been discovered on Mars, study suggests
The findings, published Tuesday in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Astronomy, provide more evidence of a lake on Mars’ south pole.
New York City voters get absentee ballots with wrong names, addresses
Voters said they were worried about how it would affect their vote in an election already plagued with doubts.
Meet Magawa, the ‘hero rat’ awarded a bravery medal for detecting dozens of landmines
Magawa, an African Giant Pouched Rat, was awarded a gold medal from the PDSA for his working detecting landmines in Cambodia.
Low tide reveals WWII-era bomb on beach near resort town in UK
The World War II era explosive was found on a beach north of Weston-Super-Mare, a popular seaside vacation town in the Bristol Channel.