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Only three planetary boundaries are within a safe operating space — and even they are under extreme pressure

INCOIS to simulate two earthquakes as part of 'IOWave23' exercise to test for tsunami disaster on east and west coasts. Pre-IOWave23 workshop on 'Tsunami Standard Operating Procedure' held to familiarise participants with tsunami bulletins, improve SOPs and promote emergency preparedness. 10,000 deaths in 2004 tsunami in Odisha, 381 villages vulnerable.…

Interstellar twinkling could leave enough of an imprint on extraterrestrial narrowband signals to distinguish them from terrestrial radio emissions.

Earthquakes, large and small, happen every single day along zones that wrap around the world like seams on a baseball. Most don’t bother anybody, so they don’t make the news. But every now and then a catastrophic earthquake hits people somewhere in the world with horrific destruction and immense suffering.

A huge planet called K2-18b has methane and carbon dioxide mixed in with its mostly hydrogen atmosphere

A new paper in Science used kinematic slip inversion and fault-property modelling to find that the Turkey-Syria earthquake could be traced to a seismic cascade over the east and the north Anatolian fault lines, and that these lines had also been in constant dialogue through the exchange of stress.

For most of us, Antarctic sea ice is an abstraction – something far away we may have seen on a documentary. But the radiant white sheets of ice floating on the seas around the snowy continent are a crucial component of Earth’s climate processes.

Scientists found an ongoing hum in the loops of the Sun's outermost layer, which could be related to other solar mysteries.

Are we alone? This question is nearly as old as humanity itself. Today, this question in astronomy focuses on finding life beyond our planet. Are we, as a species, and as a planet, alone? Or is there life somewhere else?