Typhoons striking China and Southeast Asia have become much stronger and other top stories.

• Typhoons striking China and Southeast Asia have become much stronger

  Over the past 40 years, typhoons that strike East and Southeast Asia have become stronger — and presumably will only continue gathering strength, thanks to climate change. The likely cause is warming ocean waters near the coasts, according to new research. The study, published today in the journal Nature Geoscience, falls short of pointing to climate change as the main culprit, but it warns that typhoons hitting eastern China, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan will likely be even stronger — and deadlier..

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• Watch a rare double solar eclipse as seen from space

  

  On Sept. 1, space enthusiasts in central Africa witnessed an annular eclipse as the moon drifted in front of the sun, shutting out all but its edges, and creating a beautiful ‘ring of fire’. The phenomenon was caused by the moon being at its farthest point away from the Earth, and is usually only seen from Earth about once every two years. The view from Earth was breathtaking, as most eclipses are, but the crossing of the moon in front of the sun caused a rare double eclipse as seen from the S..

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• SpaceX Could Owe $50 Million or Free Flight to Spacecom After Explosion

  

  Israel-based satellite operator Space Communication Ltd. said on Sunday that it could seek $50 million or a free flight from Elon Musk’s SpaceX after a rocket exploded on a Florida launchpad last week, destroying a Spacecom satellite. The Israeli satellite firm said the damage to the satellite could cause its equity to decline by $30 million to $123 million, Reuters reports. Spacecom officials said they also could collect $205 million from Israel Aerospace Industries, which built the AMOS-6 sa..

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• Giant panda is no longer endangered, experts say

  

  FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2014 file photo, two of the one month old Panda triples receive a body check at the Chimelong Safari Park in Guangzhou in south China's Guangdong province. The giant panda, one of the symbols of China, is off the endangered list thanks to aggressive conservation efforts. The International Union for Conservation of Nature said in a report released Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016 that the panda is now classified as "vulnerable" instead of "endangered," reflecting its growing..

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• Skye's Storr Lochs Monster fossil unveiled in Edinburgh

  

  Image copyright Todd Marshall Image caption An artist's impression of the Storr Lochs Monster The fossilised skeleton of a 170 million-year-old Jurassic predator discovered on the Isle of Skye has been unveiled in Edinburgh.Named the Storr Lochs Monster, the fossil of the sea-living reptile was found in 1966.Fifty years on from the find, scientists from the University of Edinburgh and National Museums Scotland are preparing a detailed study of it.It h..

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• 3D skulls from Henry VIII's doomed warship placed online

  

  London (AFP) - British archaeologists on Monday published detailed 3D models of skulls and artefacts found on board English king Henry VIII's warship as part of a digital experiment designed to share knowledge of major historical finds.One skull, reproduced in a fully interactive model, belonged to a carpenter on board the Mary Rose, the flagship of England's navy when it sank in 1545 as heartbroken Henry VIII watched from the shore."An abscess in his upper jaw meant he could only chew on the ri..

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• Juno Spacecraft's Close-Up Images Of Jupiter Reveal Unexpected Weather And Storm Systems

  

  NASA's Juno spacecraft has captured the first images of Jupiter's north pole, revealing details that astronomers have not seen before. The photographs reveal storm systems and weather activities that scientists have not seen in any of the other gas giants in the Solar System. Juno took the images as it skimmed just 2,500 miles above the planet's cloud tops during the first of its series of close flybys of Jupiter on Aug. 27. Analysis of the data collected during the six-hour transit is ongoing,..

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• Missing comet lander Philae spotted at last: ESA (Update)

  

  Rosetta's lander Philae has been identified in OSIRIS narrow-angle camera images taken on 2 September 2016 from a distance of 2.7 km. The image scale is about 5 cm/pixel. Philae's 1 m-wide body and two of its three legs can be seen extended …more.

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• Asteroid sample mission readied for launch

  

  NASA is launching an ambitious billion-dollar science mission Thursday, sending an SUV-size, robot arm-equipped spacecraft on a two-year voyage to a nearby asteroid to map its surface, search for organic compounds, collect a precious soil sample and return it to Earth for detailed laboratory analysis.The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft -- the convoluted acronym stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer -- is scheduled for liftoff atop a United Lau..

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