5+ hour, 40+ min ago  (532+ words) When part of a SpaceX rocket re-entered Earth's atmosphere exactly a year ago, it created a spectacular fireball that streaked across Europe's skies, delighting stargazers and sending a team of scientists rushing towards their instruments. The German team managed to…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (335+ words) New Delhi: The Centre plans to install 200 new Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) across Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Pune in 2026 to strengthen urban weather monitoring and improve forecast accuracy, minister of earth sciences Jitendra Singh said on Thursday. The additional stations…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (267+ words) Earthquake today: An earthquake struck the Mexico'Guatemala border on Friday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) confirmed, according to Reuters. The earthquake is reported to have measured 5.8 in magnitude. According to the latest update, the quake hit at a…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago  (404+ words) Early models of the Moon's formation predicted that the Moon should mostly consist of Theia's material. But scientists noticed a puzzle: Earth and the Moon are almost chemically identical, far more alike than two separate planets should be. "To understand…...

3+ mon, 3+ hour ago  (82+ words) Earthquake today: 4.1 magnitude quake strikes Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo and Atascadero California Earthquake today: 4.1 magnitude quake strikes Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo and Atascadero in California Earthquake today: 4.1 magnitude quake strikes Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo and Atascadero California…...

4+ mon, 3+ day ago  (84+ words) Earthquake today: 6.5 magnitude tremor rattles Indonesia's Papua Earthquake today: 6.5 magnitude quake jolts Indonesia's Papua Earthquake today: 6.5 magnitude tremor rattles Indonesia's Papua A magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck the eastern Indonesian province of Papua on Thursday, the US Geological Survey said, with no…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago  (859+ words) The African Union has joined a growing campaign to challenge centuries of cartographic distortion that has long diminished Africa's true scale on world maps. The bloc of 55 nations recently endorsed the use of alternatives to the widely taught Mercator projection,…...

6+ mon, 5+ day ago  (282+ words) Two earthquakes of moderate intensity struck in the early morning hours " one in Dhubri district in Assam and another in North Island of New Zealand. An earthquake measuring 2.8 on the Richter scale struck Dhubri district in the early hours of…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (315+ words) A powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake, the strongest in Russia's Far East since 1952 " struck near Kamchatka's coast Wednesday, causing buildings to shake violently for three minutes in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, home to 165,000 people." Just hours later, the towering Klyuchevskoy volcano 280 miles north began erupting,…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (371+ words) The $1.3 billion mission will help forecasters and first responders stay one step ahead of floods, landslides, volcanic eruptions and other disasters, according to scientists. Rocketing to orbit from India, the satellite will survey virtually all of Earth's terrain multiple times....