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At least 51 miners are killed, several are trapped and twenty-one are injured after a coal mine explodes in Tabas, Iran, caused by a methane gas leak.
2024-09-21

Five people are killed and four others are injured in a methane explosion at a coal mine in Karaganda, Kazakhstan.
2022-11-3

NASA announces that its "Curiosity" rover has detected the largest ever measurement of methane on Mars.
2019-06-24

A large methane explosion at a coal mine in the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic in eastern Ukraine leaves 17 miners dead.
2019-04-26

A study is published suggesting that loose plastic objects in the ocean release more methane than previously thought.
2018-08-2

Astronomers announce the discovery of 380 - km wide plutino 2017 OF, the fifth-largest known plutino, and the largest discovered since 90482 Orcus in 2004.
2018-05-31

A methane gas explosion occurs at a coal mine in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine, killing at least eight miners, with another 20 unaccounted for.
2017-03-2

Astronomers announce the discovery of S-2012 P 1, the fifth moon of Pluto.
2012-07-11

Paeleoclimatology research published in "Current Biology" suggests that the greenhouse gas methane from dinosaur's flatulence may have warmed the Earth.
2012-05-7

An analysis of data detected by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter of the LCROSS impact last October finds the presence of carbon monoxide in Cabeus Crater in higher concentrations than the approximately 155 kg of water ice and water vapour, more than initially estimated, in addition to two hydroxyl flavours and smaller quantities of hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, methane, formaldehyde, mercury, magnesium, calcium, sodium, hydrogen gas, and possibly ammonia, ethylene and silver.
2010-10-21