Monday afternoon, a 5.8 earthquake centered 15 miles northeast of Yerington hit just after 3 p.m., rattling windows and nerves as far away as Sacramento and San Francisco. Aftershocks continued to be ...
A collapsed road in Tohoku in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Dec. 9, 2025. Reporter A “megaquake” could occur along Japan’s main island north coast in the coming week, authorities said in a ...
The first observer to catalog differences in star brightnesses was Greek astronomer Hipparchus. He created a catalog around 135 B.C.E. of roughly 850 stars divided into six ranges. He called the ...