Articles filed under Science
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Comet or asteroid? Scientists ID interstellar visitorJun 27, 2018 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Last year's visitor from another star system - a cigar-shaped object briefly tumbling through our cosmic neck of the woods - has now been ide...
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More delay, cost for NASA's next-generation space telescopeJun 27, 2018 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's next-generation space telescope has been delayed yet again at a staggering cost of $1 million a day. For the third time in less than a...
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Japanese space probe arrives at asteroid to collect samplesJun 27, 2018 7:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - A Japanese space probe arrived at an asteroid Wednesday after a 3 1/2-year journey to undertake a first-ever experiment: blow a crater in the rocky surface ...
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Mars rover still silent as red planet dust storm goes globalJun 20, 2018 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A dust storm at Mars is now global, keeping NASA's Opportunity rover out of touch with Earth. Flight controllers lost contact with the rover ...
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US stepping up Earth's protection from asteroids, cometsJun 20, 2018 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The U.S. government is stepping up efforts to protect the planet from incoming asteroids that could wipe out entire regions or even continent...
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Looking for signs of global warming? It's all around youJun 19, 2018 7:00 am - GOTHIC, Colo. (AP) - David Inouye is an accidental climate scientist. More than 40 years ago, the University of Maryland biologist started studying when wildflowers, bir...
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Allergies, glaciers and pikas: Climate change in actionJun 19, 2018 7:00 am - WASHINGTON - You don't just feel the heat of global warming, you can see it in action all around. Some examples of where climate change's effects have been measured: -Gl...
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James Hansen wishes he wasn't so right about global warmingJun 18, 2018 7:00 am - NEW YORK - James Hansen wishes he was wrong. He wasn't. NASA's top climate scientist in 1988, Hansen warned the world on a record hot June day 30 years ago that global w...
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AP Was There: The age of climate change beginsJun 18, 2018 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - On June 23, 1988, a top NASA scientist told Congress and the world that global warming had arrived. NASA scientist James Hansen predicted that 1988 wou...
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Trump announces plans for Pentagon to create 'Space Force'Jun 18, 2018 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump announced Monday he is directing the Pentagon to create a new "Space Force" as an independent military service branch aimed at e...