17 adults and seven children are trapped 45 feet above ground level on the Joker’s Jinx roller coaster at Six Fags on Sunday in the hot summer sun. The roller coaster in Upper Marlboro, Maryland malfunctioned and rescue crews arrived at the scene at 2:30 pm on Sunday afternoon. No one has been currently injured in […]
Alaska State Troopers reported on the Trooper dispatch this morning of a plane crash at the Big Lake Airport at 2:25 am Sunday morning where the pilot of the aircraft lost his life and the passenger in the plane suffered possibly life-threatening injuries. According to troopers, killed in the crash was pilot, 50-year-old Christopher Cyphers […]
After a decade-long journey chasing its target, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta, carrying three NASA instruments, became the first spacecraft to rendezvous with a comet. The last of a series of 10 rendezvous maneuvers that began in May, to adjust Rosetta’s speed and trajectory to gradually match those of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, occurred today (Aug. 6, […]
The planet’s largest and most powerful driver of climate changes from one year to the next, the El Niño Southern Oscillation in the tropical Pacific Ocean, was widely thought to have been weaker in ancient times because of a different configuration of the Earth’s orbit. But scientists analyzing 25-foot piles of ancient shells have found […]