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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

A crescent Earth sets behind the edge of the cratered Moon in a photograph taken by the Artemis II crew

Artemis II Crew Saw Five Moon Flashes; the One Camera Clip Checked Saw None

Artemis II's crew reported five impact flashes on the dark Moon, likely the faintest ever seen by human eyes, according to NASA's preliminary lunar science report. A short Orion camera clip reviewed

October 14, 2026

Astronomy·News·Science

Satellite map of Antarctic sea ice concentration on September 14, 2026, with a yellow line marking the 1981 to 2010 median extent

Antarctic Sea Ice Slides Toward Record Lows, NSIDC Says, or Nearly So

Antarctic sea ice is melting back at record-low daily extents, the National Snow and Ice Data Center said, though a later paragraph of its report calls it only close to the record.

October 14, 2026

Climate·News·Science

Artemis III astronauts in white cleanroom suits lean over a railing to view the Orion spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center

Artemis III Crew Will Rehearse a Pad Escape as NASA Stacks Its Rocket

NASA has finished stacking the Artemis III boosters and set an October 23 update on its Moon plans, with the crew due to rehearse an emergency pad exit. Nothing NASA has published

October 14, 2026

News·Science

The transition between the Moon's near side and far side photographed by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby

China Will Show Moon Samples From Both Sides at an Expanded Airshow China

China will display lunar samples from both the near side (Chang'e-5) and far side (Chang'e-6) of the Moon at Airshow China in Zhuhai from December 7 to 13, in an expanded edition

October 14, 2026

News·Science·Technology

Five members of the SPEARS battery team stand and sit beside a thermal vacuum chamber at NASA's Langley Research Center

NASA’s Moon Battery Works at Minus 80C, but the Lunar Night Hits Minus 200

NASA's SPEARS solid-state battery cells worked down to minus 80 degrees Celsius in vacuum tests at Langley and survived minus 170. The Moon's South Pole night reaches minus 200, and the release

October 14, 2026

News·Science·Technology

Composite image of the Treble Clef radio source, looping pink filaments inside a blue haze of hot cluster gas, with background stars

Treble Clef Radio Shape Traced to Black Hole Outburst and Cluster Crash

A radio shape nicknamed the Treble Clef, first taken for a pulsar, appears to be a black hole's old outburst revived by a collision of two galaxy clusters behind the Milky Way,

October 14, 2026

Astronomy·News·Science

Artist's concept of a banded red and purple brown dwarf against a starry sky and the Milky Way

SPHEREx Spectra Expose Where Brown Dwarf Models Go Wrong

NASA's SPHEREx telescope measured 37 nearby brown dwarfs and found water, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and methane. The best models still struggle through the cloudy transition, and thousands more objects are waiting

October 14, 2026

Astronomy·News·Science

Webb NIRCam image of a star field and distant galaxies with an inset enlarging a small blue dwarf galaxy marked by a white cross

Webb Traces Farthest Fast Radio Burst to a Surprisingly Tiny Galaxy

Webb and the MeerKAT telescope traced the most distant fast radio burst yet to a tiny star-forming galaxy about 3 billion years after the Big Bang. The host is 1,000 times lighter

October 14, 2026

Astronomy·News·Science

A diver beside an amphora on a rocky seabed at the shipwreck site near Kekova Island

Turkey Says It Found a Shipwreck 800 Years Older Than Its Last ‘Oldest’

Turkey's culture minister says archaeologists have found the world's oldest known shipwreck near Kekova Island, estimated at 4,400 to 4,700 years old. The date rests on pottery and earlier surveys, the hull

October 14, 2026

News·Science

Rover tracks crossing a rocky slope on the western rim of Jezero Crater, seen by Perseverance's navigation camera

Perseverance Passes Opportunity’s Record With 28.10 Miles on Mars

Perseverance passed Opportunity's off-world driving record on Sunday, reaching 28.10 miles against a mission plan of no more than 12.4. JPL credits AutoNav, which has done over 90 percent of the driving.

October 14, 2026

Astronomy·News·Science

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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 Crew Saw Five Moon Flashes; the One Camera Clip Checked Saw None

Antarctic Sea Ice Slides Toward Record Lows, NSIDC Says, or Nearly So

Artemis III Crew Will Rehearse a Pad Escape as NASA Stacks Its Rocket

China Will Show Moon Samples From Both Sides at an Expanded Airshow China

NASA’s Moon Battery Works at Minus 80C, but the Lunar Night Hits Minus 200

Treble Clef Radio Shape Traced to Black Hole Outburst and Cluster Crash

SPHEREx Spectra Expose Where Brown Dwarf Models Go Wrong

Webb Traces Farthest Fast Radio Burst to a Surprisingly Tiny Galaxy

Turkey Says It Found a Shipwreck 800 Years Older Than Its Last ‘Oldest’

Perseverance Passes Opportunity’s Record With 28.10 Miles on Mars

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Ahmadis in Bangladesh face fresh threat of persecution

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