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Last year was the warmest on record in California, its driest spell for more than 400 years but a new study says that’s nothing compared to what’s in store. In a paper, published by the journal Science Advances, researchers from Nasa and Columbia and Cornell universities warn that a vast swathe of the US, including the south-west states and the ...

A new mission to monitor solar activity is now making its way to an orbit one million miles from Earth. The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 6:03 p.m. EST Wednesday from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. DSCOVR, a partnership among the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

After analyzing the weather conditions, SpaceX launch has beeen delayed owing to upper-level winds remaining in the red. “The data from the next-to-last balloon revealed conditions that are still outside the allowed limits,” said Steven Siceloff on behalf of the SpaceX and NASA teams. The next launch attempt of NOAA’s DSCOVR is on Wednesday at 6:03 p.m. EST, after upper-level ...