Officials with NASA say the U.S.-European Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite was launched into orbit on November 21st at 12:17 p.m. to help broaden our understanding of the sea.
For the second time this month, thereβs promising news from a COVID-19 vaccine candidate: Moderna said Monday its shots provide strong protection, a dash of hope against the grim backdrop of coronavirus surges in the U.S. and around the world.
Pfizer says an early peek at its vaccine data suggests the shots may be 90% effective at preventing COVID-19, indicating the company is on track later this month to file an emergency use application with U.S. regulators.
What happens on election day will to some degree determine how much more hot and nasty the worldβs climate will likely get, experts say.
In much of Europe, city squares and streets, be they wide, elegant boulevards like in Paris or cobblestoned alleys in Rome, serve as animated evening extensions of living rooms, places to gather and be seen, areas to laugh, chat and drink with friends.
Pope Francis endorsed same-sex civil unions for the first time as pope while being interviewed for the feature-length documentary βFrancesco,β which premiered Wednesday at the Rome Film Festival.
A major earthquake registering 7.4 on the Richter Scale has occurred in Alaska.
After almost two years circling an ancient asteroid hundreds of millions of miles away, a NASA spacecraft this week will attempt to descend to the treacherous, boulder-packed surface and snatch a handful of rubble.
Google has announced this week, it is adding a "Search Song" button to its search bar which will allow users to hum, sing, or whistle the tunes a song whose names they don't know.
South Koreaβs Big Hit Entertainment, the company that manages global pop sensation BTS, had a dynamite trading debut Thursday in Seoul, helped by the zeal of its loyal fans.
Apple unveiled four new iPhones equipped with technology for use with faster new 5G wireless networks.
The World Food Program won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for fighting hunger and seeking to end its use as βa weapon of war and conflictβ at a time when the coronavirus pandemic has driven millions more people to the brink of starvation.
Irelandβs Supreme Court has ruled that bread sold by the fast food chain Subway contains so much sugar that it cannot be legally defined as bread.
The worldwide death toll from the coronavirus has eclipsed 1 million, nine months into a crisis that has devastated the global economy, tested world leadersβ resolve, pitted science against politics and forced multitudes to change the way they live, learn and work.
Take a look at these photos of the Coronavirus's impact as deaths near 1 million people world wide.
Berkeley, CA will become the first city in the U.S. to ban junk food in checkout lines of grocery stores. Berkeley's City Council unanimously voted to approve the so-called 'Healthy Checkout Ordinance.' It goes into effect January 2022.
The smoke from dozens of wildfires in the western United States is stretching clear across the country β and even pushing into Mexico, Canada and Europe. While the dangerous plumes are forcing people inside along the West Coast, residents thousands of miles away in the East are seeing unusually hazy skies and remarkable sunsets.
The future of air travel is here. Researchers have managed to fly a remote-controlled v-shaped plane, called 'the flying v'.
An anti-immigrant Norwegian lawmaker said Wednesday that he has nominated U.S. President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in the Middle East.
A powerful typhoon damaged buildings, flooded roads and knocked out power to thousands of homes in South Korea on Monday after battering islands in southern Japan, killing one person and injuring dozens of others, before weakening as it passed North Korea.
