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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

Artist concept of Sagittarius A* the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy with swirling accretion disk and bright flares observed by JWST

Inside the Birth, Life and Death of Black Holes: New Gravitational Wave Data Rewrites the Lifecycle of the Universe’s Most Extreme Objects

From stellar corpses to second-generation monsters and a possible quantum death by evaporation, 300 gravitational wave detections and a landmark 2026 Nature Astronomy study are forcing astrophysicists to redraw the timeline of

May 24, 2026

Climate·News·Science

Webb Telescope near-infrared image showing Messier 51 spiral arm with young star clusters lighting bubbles inside dense gas

Webb Telescope Finds Most Massive Star Clusters Break Free of Birth Clouds in Just 5 Million Years

An international team using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble has measured nearly 9,000 young star clusters across four nearby galaxies, finding that the largest break free of their gas cocoons

May 24, 2026

News·Science

NASA LAGEOS-1 satellite carrying Carl Sagan designed plaque in Earth orbit

NASA’s LAGEOS-1 Satellite Carries a Carl Sagan Message Earth Will Not Read for 8.4 Million Years

On May 4, 1976, a polished brass and aluminum sphere lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, slipped past the boundary where the sky turns black, and settled into an

May 24, 2026

Astronomy·Science

NASA astronaut Bob Hines exercising on the Advanced Resistive Exercise Device ARED inside the International Space Station, the kind of bulky current-generation gym equipment HIFIm aims to replace

British space gym invention HIFIm could slash astronaut workout time as global race for lunar fitness kit heats up

A British-built exercise rig called HIFIm, tested by Olympic rower Matthew Wells on a parabolic flight, promises to cut astronaut workout time from two hours to thirty minutes a day and is

May 24, 2026

News·Science·Technology

China Chang'e 7 lunar lander rendering at the Moon's south pole ahead of 2026 mission

China Moves Two Steps Ahead of the United States in the New Race to Build a Moon Base

China is pulling ahead of the United States in the contest to plant the first permanent human foothold on the Moon, and the gap, according to one of the most candid assessments

May 21, 2026

Astronomy·News

SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docking with International Space Station during NASA CRS-34 mission

NASA and SpaceX CRS-34 Mission Delivers 6,500 Pounds of Science Cargo to ISS as Dragon Enters Precision Docking Phase

The International Space Station (ISS) has received another critical injection of scientific capability as NASA and SpaceX completed the latest phase of the CRS-34 mission, a cargo flight carrying approximately 6,500 pounds

May 17, 2026

Astronomy·News

Extreme close-up of bird eye showing evolutionary adaptation in vision system

Bird Eye Evolution Reaches Its Extreme Limit: How Nature Engineered the Most Advanced Vision System in Vertebrates

The eye of a bird represents one of the most refined sensory systems in the animal kingdom, shaped by relentless evolutionary pressure. What emerges from recent scientific synthesis is not simply improved

May 14, 2026

News·Science

Gravitational lensing revealing a distant early universe galaxy magnified by a galaxy cluster

JWST Detects 13-Billion-Light-Year-Old “Cosmic Fossil” Galaxy Forged 800 Million Years After the Big Bang

The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered another destabilizing glimpse into the Universe’s formative era. Astronomers have identified an ultra-faint galaxy known as LAP1-B, observed at a time when the cosmos was

May 14, 2026

Astronomy·News

Brain-controlled hearing aid using EEG signals to isolate a single voice in a crowded room

Brain-Controlled Hearing Aid Breakthrough Solves the “Cocktail Party Problem” in Real Time

Brain-Controlled Hearing Aid Breakthrough Targets the “Cocktail Party Problem” Using Real-Time EEG Decoding A new wave of neurotechnology is pushing hearing science into unfamiliar territory, where the boundary between cognition and computation

May 12, 2026

Artificial Intelligence·News·Science

NASA Mars helicopter rotor blade undergoing Mach 1 supersonic testing inside a simulated Martian atmosphere chamber

NASA Pushes Mars Helicopter Rotor Blades Beyond Mach 1 in a Breakthrough That Rewrites Aerial Flight on Mars

NASA has entered a rare engineering frontier where theoretical aerodynamics collides with planetary survival constraints: rotor blades spinning faster than the speed of sound inside a simulated Martian atmosphere, and still holding

May 8, 2026

Astronomy·News

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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

Inside the Birth, Life and Death of Black Holes: New Gravitational Wave Data Rewrites the Lifecycle of the Universe’s Most Extreme Objects

Webb Telescope Finds Most Massive Star Clusters Break Free of Birth Clouds in Just 5 Million Years

NASA’s LAGEOS-1 Satellite Carries a Carl Sagan Message Earth Will Not Read for 8.4 Million Years

British space gym invention HIFIm could slash astronaut workout time as global race for lunar fitness kit heats up

China Moves Two Steps Ahead of the United States in the New Race to Build a Moon Base

NASA and SpaceX CRS-34 Mission Delivers 6,500 Pounds of Science Cargo to ISS as Dragon Enters Precision Docking Phase

Bird Eye Evolution Reaches Its Extreme Limit: How Nature Engineered the Most Advanced Vision System in Vertebrates

JWST Detects 13-Billion-Light-Year-Old “Cosmic Fossil” Galaxy Forged 800 Million Years After the Big Bang

Brain-Controlled Hearing Aid Breakthrough Solves the “Cocktail Party Problem” in Real Time

NASA Pushes Mars Helicopter Rotor Blades Beyond Mach 1 in a Breakthrough That Rewrites Aerial Flight on Mars

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Ahmadis in Bangladesh face fresh threat of persecution

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