COSMIC DUST, NOT 'ALIEN MEGASTRUCTURE,' VEILS MYSTERIOUS STAR

Kepler detects planets by tracking moments when a star's light dims as an object passes in front of it... READ MORE›

ALIEN MEGASTRUCTURE STAR MYSTERY MAY FINALLY HAVE BEEN SOLVED

That Weird 'Alien Megastructure' Star Mystery May Finally Have Been Solved... READ MORE›

MACRON IS 'PRETTY SURE TRUMP WILL CHANGE HIS MIND' ON PARIS CLIMATE PACT

Two years on from the Paris Agreement, Macron will meet with world leaders on Tuesday, this time to talk about money... READ MORE›

TESLA BUILDS WORLD'S BIGGEST BATTERY IN AUSTRALIAN OUTBACK

ADELAIDE, Australia AP -- The world's biggest lithium-ion battery has plugged into an Australian state grid, delivering on a promise by Tesla Inc... READ MORE›

CLIMATE ENVOYS STEP UP PACE OF WORK WITHOUT SUPPORT FROM TRUMP

We are 15 years or so away from busting the 1.5 degree Celsius budget, said Piers Forster, a professor of climate change at the University of Leeds... READ MORE›

NASA SCIENTIST DEBUNKS DOOMSDAY RUMOURS OVER MYSTERIOUS PLANET NIBIRU

According to popular imagination, Nibiru, or Planet X, is a hypothetical planet on the edge of the solar system that orbits the sun every 3,600 years... READ MORE›

CLIMATE CHANGE IS COSTLY FOR MANUFACTURING, STUDY SAYS

In aggregate, the study authors note, rising temperatures could cost the global market for manufacturing products billions by the middle of the 21st century... READ MORE›

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KIC 8462852 STAR ANOMALY GETS ET EXPERTS' ATTENTION

Users on the online astronomy crowdsourcing interface Planet Hunters discovered a peculiar light pattern between the Cygnus and Lyra constellations a few years ago... READ MORE›

AS TRUMP HEADS TO WASHINGTON, GLOBAL WARMING NEARS TIPPING POINT

Because of climate change, the occurrence and impact of extreme events has risen, WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said in a statement... READ MORE›

HUNDREDS DIE IN HEAT WAVE IN SOUTHERN PAKISTAN

The Pakistan Rangers Sindh, a paramilitary force that otherwise fights crime in Karachi, has set up 10 heatstroke relief centers across the city... READ MORE›

ETHIOPIA'S COFFEE INDUSTRY THREATENED BY CLIMATE CHANGE

Coffee plants ideally need mild temperatures between 15 to 26 degrees Celsius to thrive... READ MORE›

JULY 2016 WAS WORLD'S HOTTEST MONTH SINCE RECORDS BEGAN, SAYS NASA

The past nine months have set temperature records for their respective months and the trend continued this month to make 10 in a row, according to Nasa... READ MORE›

2 DEGREES CELSIUS: A CRITICAL NUMBER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE

Framework Convention on Climate Change said in a statement... READ MORE›

AS ASIAN SCORCHERS MULTIPLY RECORDS FALL AND ATTENTION RISES

The attention paid to the temperature reading in Pakistan highlights how interest in heat records is growing across Asia alongside rising awareness of climate change... READ MORE›

PRE-MONSOON HEAT BUILDS EARLY IN INDIA

Bhubaneswar has recorded temperatures above 40C for some time now... READ MORE›

SNOWSTORMS HOLD MAINLAND EUROPE IN AN ICY GRIP AS SCORES SUCCUMB TO BITTERLY COLD WEATHER

The state-run Anadolu news agency reported that even the Bosphorus Strait running through Turkey's largest city was closed with ferries being halted... READ MORE›

ALIEN HUNTERS BELIEVE NASA'S CURIOSITY ROVER HAS SPOTTED A 'MOUSE' ON MARS

In his post, wrote A possible very large mouse or other rodent on Mars in Gale Crater sitting on a ridge plain as day... READ MORE›

NATIONS STRIKE HISTORIC DEAL ON CLIMATE CHANGE

It seeks to limit rising temperatures to within 2 degrees Celsius 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit compared to pre-industrial levels through the year 2100... READ MORE›

IT'S TOO HOT FOR SOME PLANES TO FLY IN PHOENIX

Was forced to cancel 50 flights so far this week--43 of them on Tuesday--from its Phoenix hub because the forecast high is 120 degrees Fahrenheit 49 degrees Celsius ... READ MORE›

9 WORLD CUP SLOTS FOR AFRICA APPROVED BY FIFA, AWAIT RATIFICATION

A proposed fully air-conditioned venue for the 2022 World Cup, the Khalifa International Stadium has been completed... READ MORE›

MARS AND SNICKERS BARS RECALLED IN 56 COUNTRIES

Millions of chocolate snacks deemed possibly unsafe in Europe and elsewhere due to plastic found in a Snickers bar... READ MORE›

OUR SWELTERING CITIES WILL PAY A HEAVY PRICE

With temperatures touching 119 degrees Fahrenheit 48 degrees Celsius in the Arizona city, some jets couldn't generate enough lift... READ MORE›

COLORADO POLICE OFFICER WHO COMFORTED TODDLER AT SCENE OF FATAL CAR CRASH SANG HER A LULLABY

Officer Nick Struck was pictured comforting the young girl while rescue workers examine the crashed car in the background... READ MORE›

BENNU: NASA LAUNCHES HISTORIC ASTEROID MISSION

The space probe is programmed to collect dust from Bennu, a near-earth asteroid that may have delivered life-giving materials to our planet billions of years ago... READ MORE›

'STOP CALLING ME EBOLA NURSE', SAYS KACI HICKOX

Stop calling me ebola nurse says kaci hickox... READ MORE›

YOUNG WOMAN 'FREEZES TO DEATH' IN CRYOTHERAPY CHAMBER

Officials have told the family of Chelsea Ake-Salvacion 24 of Las Vegas that she would have died in seconds... READ MORE›

'INFERNO WORLD': HOT JUPITER EXOPLANET IS 4 TIMES HOTTER THAN VENUS

Its atmosphere is estimated to have a temperature of a scorching 2,000 degrees Celsius... READ MORE›

RED PLANET MAY ONCE HAVE BEEN COMPLETELY UNDER WATER, SAY MARS SCIENTISTS

Mars may have been entirely submerged in water, increasing the likelihood that planet once supported life, scientists have found... READ MORE›

AUSTRIA SEARCHES FREIGHT TRAINS IN NEW FRONTLINE ON ILLEGAL MIGRATION

In another recent case, a group of people had been locked into a freight train wagon in Turkey and were found barely alive in Austria... READ MORE›

'LUCIFER' HEAT WAVE KEEPS PARTS OF EUROPE IN RED ALERT

The high temperatures came as a shock to Australian Mira Balic, who was visiting Serbia at a time when it's winter in the Southern Hemisphere... READ MORE›

European summer temperatures have increased a lot over the last 10 or 15 years, he said... READ MORE›

SPAIN WILDFIRE FORCES EVACUATION OF 1,400 PEOPLE

The average temperature in Spain last month was 26.5 degrees Celsius 79.7 Fahrenheit, the agency said Wednesday... READ MORE›

5 TAKEAWAYS ABOUT THE CLIMATE DEAL

It also lists 1.5 degrees Celsius 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit as an aspirational goal, but leaves a lot of the decision-making for that goal until a future date... READ MORE›

MAN HAILED AS HERO FOR SHIELDING WOMAN FROM BULLETS AT CAFA(C)

Ludovic Boumbas, 40, was at the restaurant with several friends, including two Tunisian women, sisters Houda, 35, and Halima Saadi, 36, when the shooting began... READ MORE›

ANIMATION SHOWS EFFECTS OF IMPACT AS PART OF DUTCH INVESTIGATION

It says Buk missile fragments struck the plane at speeds of 2 800-5 600 mph tearing off the cockpit and instantly killing the two pilots and the purser... READ MORE›

PARIS ROLLS OUT ANTI-POLLUTION MEASURES AMID EUROPEAN HEAT WAVE

Heat slams Europe The rise in pollution was linked to a heat wave that was already breaking records across Europe... READ MORE›

US WOMAN ARRESTED FOR KEEPING HER CHILDREN IN A CAVE

A spokesman for the Jackson County prosecutor's office said Saturday that he didn't think Ms Mugrauer has a lawyer... READ MORE›