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NASA scientists are tracking the upcoming Halloween flyby of asteroid 2015 TB145 with several optical observatories and the radar capabilities of the agency's Deep Space Network at Goldstone, California. The asteroid will fly past Earth at a safe distance slightly farther than the moon's orbit on Oct. 31 at 10:05 a.m. PDT (1:05 p.m. EDT). Scientists are treating the flyby of the estimated 1,300-foot-wide (400-meter) asteroid as a science target of opportunity, allowing instruments on "spacecraft Earth" to scan it during the close pass.

Asteroid 2015 TB145 was discovered on Oct. 10, 2015, by the University of Hawaii's Pan-STARRS-1 (Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System) on Haleakala, Maui, part of the NASA-funded Near-Earth Object Observation (NEOO) Program. According to the catalog of near-Earth objects (NEOs) kept by the Minor Planet Center, this is the closest currently known approach by an object this large until asteroid 1999 AN10, at about 2,600 feet (800 meters) in size, approaches at about 1 lunar distance (238,000 miles from Earth) in August 2027.

La buena noticia para Volkswagen es que entregó casi 7,5 millones de vehículos a clientes durante los tres primeros trimestres de 2015. La mala noticia es que los 8,5 millones de coches de VW lo más probable es que sean objeto de una retirada obligatoria…y eso es sólo en Europa.

Las consecuencias del escándalo de las emisiones de Volkswagen continúan resaltando, cuatro semanas después de las revelaciones acerca de la instalación de un software de "desactivación de...

Researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science developed a new method to estimate fish movements using ocean heat content images, a dataset commonly used in hurricane intensity forecasting. With Atlantic tarpon as the messenger, this is the first study to quantitatively show that large migratory fishes, such as yellowfin and bluefin tunas, blue and white marlin, and sailfish have affinities for ocean fronts and eddies.

La buena noticia para Volkswagen es que entregó casi 7,5 millones de vehículos a clientes durante los tres primeros trimestres de 2015. La mala noticia es que los 8,5 millones de coches de VW lo más probable es que sean objeto de una retirada obligatoria…y eso es sólo en Europa.

Las consecuencias del escándalo de las emisiones de Volkswagen continúan resaltando, cuatro semanas después de las revelaciones acerca de la instalación de un software de "desactivación de...

More than 167,000 hectares of coastland -- about 0.6% of the country's total area -- are projected to go underwater in the Philippines, especially in low-lying island communities, according to research by the University of the Philippines.

Low-lying countries with an abundance of coastlines are at significant risk from rising sea levels resulting from global warming. According to data by the World Meteorological Organisation, the water levels around the Philippines are rising at a rate almost three times the global average due partly to the influence of the trade winds pushing ocean currents.

On average, sea levels around the world rise 3.1 centimetres every ten years. Water levels in the Philippines are projected to rise between 7.6 and 10.2 centimetres each decade.