‘Like a war zone’: Chile wildfire death toll reaches 123 amid race to clear rubble | Chile
Helicopters dropped tons of water on wildfires raging in central Chile, and emergency workers said they were still finding bodies three days after the blaze broke out. Official death toll from Chile’s worst natural disaster in years On Monday, that number had increased to 123, said Marisol Prado, head of Chile’s forensic services. That number […]
NASA announces ‘super-Earth,’ exoplanet in ‘habitable zone’
The recent discovery of a nearby “super-Earth” exoplanet just 137 light-years from Earth has prompted scientists to look deeper into whether the planet has conditions capable of supporting life. NASA announced that. The planet, called TOI-715 b, is about 1.5 times wider than Earth and orbits within a modest “habitable zone” around its parent star, […]