As astronomers continue their search for planet X, researchers have found an extremely distant dwarf planet, providing compelling evidence for the existence of Planet X. The Goblin has a 40,000 year orbit around the sun, and is two and a half times further from the sun than Pluto. Scott Sheppard, Astronomer at the Carengie Insitution…
By Cassandra Elliott More than 1,500 people are known to have died following Friday’s earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia’s island, Sulawesi. Aid has just begun and there are victims in several areas that have yet to be counted, meaning the death toll is expected to rise. On Monday night two more earthquakes measuring between 5.0…
By Cassandra Elliott Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad have both been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to end sexual violence as a weapon of war. The Nobel Committee said they had both ‘helped to give greater visibility to war-time sexual violence’. Denis Mukwege is a Congolese gynaecologist who has treated thousands of…
Australia will pledge a further $5 million in financial aid to Indonesia to assist the country, after a powerful earthquake and tsunami that killed more than 1,200 people. The Federal Government has announced the funding that will be given to the Indonesian Red Cross for disaster relief services, adding to an initial $500,000 donated to…