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He even toyed with the idea of using a Cold War era national defense law to force electric utilities to buy power from failing coal plants.

The signature policy that Turnbull hoped to take into the election, the National Energy Guarantee (NEG), is falling apart after a small number of Liberal legislators, including Dutton and former prime minister Tony Abbott, said they would cross the floor and join opposition...

NASA has revealed the nine astronauts who will man the first commercial spaceflights, as the United States prepares to once again begin launching manned missions after retiring the Space Shuttle.

Becerra also promised to sue if the Trump administration makes good on plans to revoke a longstanding waiver allowing California and other states to set their own stricter auto emissions standards.

That’s because from our vantage point here on Earth, the sun is shining directly at Mars. “And then the planet sets, and then the sun comes up in the morning”. Coinciding with this, researchers with the Italian Space Agency announced on Wednesday their discovery...

There are many good reasons to gaze at the moon, but this week will provide an extra-special one.

The eclipse, though, was not visible in America and the Pacific.

The red variant of our only natural satellite will show its colours on Friday, turning from its normal friendly silver-grey, during the longest lunar eclipse of the 21 century. The moon will be totally eclipsed by the Earth for one hour and 43 minutes. A lunar eclipse is when the...

But now, according to a paper published in the journal Science, the Mars Express spaceship has detected what appears to be an enormous lake, 20 kilometres (12 miles) across, around 1.5m (1 mile) beneath the water-and-carbon-dioxide ice of the planet’s south pole.

There have been small indications of water on Mars before, but the researchers say this is the first evidence of stable bodies of water. But there’s little heat flowing from the geologically dead interior of Mars, and under the planet’s weak gravity, the weight of 1.5...

Paul Begley believes that the blood moon, coupled with worldwide natural disasters, is the latest clue that the apocalypse is close.

The weather pattern over the last few days remains in place with some subtle differences for Wednesday and Thursday.

Artistic impression of the Mars Express spacecraft probing the southern hemisphere of Mars.

Putting out the trash a day early, playing loud music at all hours, never getting around to fixing that fence.

The president said Tuesday that he accepted the USA intelligence community’s conclusion that the meddling took place.