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Tsunami Warnings Lifted After Powerful Quake Off Northeast Japan

The weather agency cautions of days of aftershocks and a slightly elevated risk of a much larger quake.

Series of Small Quakes Rattle San Ramon, Largest at Magnitude 3.7

Powerful 7.6 Quake Off Northern Japan Triggers Tsunami Alerts and Mass Evacuations

Perseverance Finds Kaolinite in Jezero, Strengthening Evidence for Long-Lived Rain on Ancient Mars

Powerful 7.6 Quake Off Northern Japan Triggers Tsunami Warnings

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Bennu Samples Yield Ribose, Glucose and a Novel Polymer in Peer-Reviewed Analyses

Newly Described Cretaceous Bird Likely Choked on 800 Stones, Study Finds

Study Finds 16,000+ Dinosaur Footprints at Bolivian Tracksite, Including Record Swim Traces

Magnitude 4.8 Fuengirola Quake Felt Across Southern Spain as Andalucía Activates Preemergency

Ribose and First Extraterrestrial Glucose Confirmed in Bennu, Along With Gum-Like Organic and Rare Stardust

USGS Investigates False 5.9 Nevada Quake Alert That Lit Up Phones Across California

Bolivia Tracksite Sets World Record With 16,600 Dinosaur Footprints

Bennu Samples Reveal Bio-Essential Sugars, 'Space Gum' and Supernova Dust in New Studies

Andalusia Activates Pre-Emergency Seismic Plan After 4.8 Quake Near Fuengirola

Zanskar Uses AI to Confirm First U.S. Blind Geothermal Prospect in Decades at Nevada Site

ESA Mars Express Reveals 'Butterfly' Crater Carved by Low-Angle Impact

M5.8–6.2 Shallow Earthquake Strikes China’s Xinjiang

Perseverance Links Jezero’s White Clays to Rainfall on Ancient Mars

First Global Map Identifies 16 Mega Drainage Basins on Ancient Mars

OSIRIS-REx Study Reports Tryptophan Signal in Pristine Bennu Sample