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Snow-covered summit of Avachinsky volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula rising through a ring of cloud, seen from orbit

Japan Warned of a Magnitude 9.9 Quake. The Real One Was a 6.9 in Kamchatka

Japan's weather agency issued an early warning for a magnitude 9.9 earthquake that did not exist, then withdrew it about eight minutes later. The real quake was a magnitude 6.9 near Kamchatka,

October 16, 2026

by Dilnaz Shaikh

Starship's white launch plume rising over the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas coast, photographed from the International Space Station

FAA Reviews 456 Starship Launches a Year From Boca Chica, Up From 25

Boca Chica, Texas, is licensed for three Starship launches a year after dark. A Federal Aviation Administration review opened this week sets a ceiling of 456 launches, assumes half would fly at night, and gives no date for a draft.

October 16, 2026

by Dilnaz Shaikh

Landsat 8 satellite image of snow-capped Mount Taranaki in New Zealand ringed by dark forest inside a circular protected-area boundary, surrounded by green farmland

World May Already Conserve 27% of Its Land, Just Not Where It Counts

Official records miss land that is already being conserved, a Nature study led by the University

Satellite view of grey smoke plumes streaming across the Amazon River and rainforest from fires near Manaus and Santarem on October 12, 2026

Smoke Shuts Manaus Schools as October Fire Detections Near Triple

Smoke from Amazon fires closed schools in Manaus on October 12, and INPE's data show October

Side-by-side view of the Orion heat shields from Artemis I, left, with visible cracking, and Artemis II, right, after removal from their crew modules

Artemis II Heat Shield Had 9 Char-Loss Spots; Artemis I Had 103

NASA says post-flight analysis shows the Artemis II Orion heat shield had nine spots of char loss against 103 on Artemis I, after the agency shortened the reentry path. How much material

October 15, 2026

News·Science

Black-and-white archive photograph of Amelia Earhart standing beside her Lockheed Electra in Khartoum

Earhart Plane Hunt: Team Expects a Lagoon Answer Within Days

A 17-person Purdue and Archaeological Legacy Institute team began an underwater survey of Nikumaroro's lagoon Wednesday and says a definitive answer on the Taraia Object could come in days. Skeptics note a

October 15, 2026

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Families sitting under a makeshift shelter with laundry hanging and water bottles stacked beside them

Panama’s Earthquake Toll Depends on Which Agency’s Count You Read

Six days after Panama's earthquake, one death has been reported and 13,623 people are affected, but UNICEF, the UN humanitarian office, PAHO and the USGS give different magnitudes and shelter, school and

October 14, 2026

News·Science

White water ice cloud streaming from the Arsia Mons volcano across the tan surface of Mars, seen from above by Mars Express

A Mars Cloud May Form by Physics No One Has Seen in a Planetary Atmosphere

A study in Nature Geoscience says Mars's Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud probably forms by homogeneous nucleation, in which water vapour turns directly to ice. The process has never been observed in a

October 14, 2026

Astronomy·News·Science

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center carrying NASA's Roman Space Telescope

Roman Telescope’s Camera Beats Its Optics Target by Nearly 30%

NASA says the Roman Space Telescope's Wide Field Instrument optics measure 63 nanometers RMS against a requirement of about 90, after a mirror nudge of one-sixteenth of a hair's width. The coronagraph's

October 14, 2026

Astronomy·News·Science

Artist's impression of the MMX spacecraft near Mars with its moon Phobos at right

Japan-Led Probe to Launch October 20 to Fetch Rock From a Moon of Mars

An H3 rocket is due to launch the Martian Moons eXploration mission from Tanegashima at 04:41 JST on October 20, aiming to return at least 10 grams of Phobos to Earth in

October 14, 2026

Astronomy·News·Science

NASA astronaut Christina Koch in silhouette looking at Earth through a window of the Orion spacecraft during Artemis II

Christina Koch Will Not Fly Again as NASA Gives Her an Engineering Post

NASA said astronaut Christina Koch, who flew Artemis II and spent 328 days on the space station, becomes acting deputy chief engineer on November 1 and is no longer eligible for spaceflight.

October 14, 2026

News·Science

NASA Tests Moon and Mars Heat Shields on a Cargo Ship Full of Station Trash

NASA sent 12 student-built capsules carrying experimental heat shield materials out of the space station inside a trash-filled Cygnus XL cargo ship that burns up on re-entry. NASA's release gives no results

October 14, 2026

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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman and Energy Secretary Chris Wright sign a memorandum at a table as OSTP Director Michael Kratsios stands behind them

NASA and DOE Sign Space Nuclear Deal, but No Release Gives a Power Rating

NASA and the Energy Department signed a memorandum on space nuclear power and propulsion that runs from fuel production to launch, effective November 1. The release names no reactor power rating, budget

October 14, 2026

News·Science·Technology

Technicians in white cleanroom suits watch as a crane lowers a lunar lander into a large thermal vacuum chamber at JPL

Griffin-1 Lander Passes JPL’s Shake, Roar and Freeze Tests; No Launch Date

Voyager Technologies' Griffin-1 lander has passed vibration, acoustic, electromagnetic and thermal vacuum tests at NASA's JPL ahead of a Falcon Heavy launch to the lunar south pole. NASA's account gives no test

October 14, 2026

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Japan Warned of a Magnitude 9.9 Quake. The Real One Was a 6.9 in Kamchatka

FAA Reviews 456 Starship Launches a Year From Boca Chica, Up From 25

World May Already Conserve 27% of Its Land, Just Not Where It Counts

Smoke Shuts Manaus Schools as October Fire Detections Near Triple

Artemis II Heat Shield Had 9 Char-Loss Spots; Artemis I Had 103

Earhart Plane Hunt: Team Expects a Lagoon Answer Within Days

Panama’s Earthquake Toll Depends on Which Agency’s Count You Read

A Mars Cloud May Form by Physics No One Has Seen in a Planetary Atmosphere

Roman Telescope’s Camera Beats Its Optics Target by Nearly 30%

Japan-Led Probe to Launch October 20 to Fetch Rock From a Moon of Mars

Christina Koch Will Not Fly Again as NASA Gives Her an Engineering Post

NASA Tests Moon and Mars Heat Shields on a Cargo Ship Full of Station Trash

NASA and DOE Sign Space Nuclear Deal, but No Release Gives a Power Rating

Griffin-1 Lander Passes JPL’s Shake, Roar and Freeze Tests; No Launch Date

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