Space
From roughly 400 kilometres above Earth, ISS astronauts experience about 16 sunrises every day—not because the Sun rises faster, but…
Aug 28, 2026
Space and Astronomy
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Space
On 1 July 2025, a planetary-defence telescope in Chile built to spot dangerous asteroids found something far rarer
Aug 27, 2026
Space
Webb detected methane on 3I/ATLAS after the interstellar comet swept past the Sun in 2025—the first methane ever found on a visitor from…
Aug 26, 2026
Space
The Golden Record's aluminium cover carries a smear of uranium-238 with a half-life of 4.468 billion years, put there so that whoever finds…
Aug 26, 2026
Space
Only one antenna on Earth can still send commands to Voyager 2
Aug 25, 2026
Space
A laser array on Earth could one day push a gram-scale spacecraft to roughly 20% of the speed of light
Aug 21, 2026
Space
Astronomers have confirmed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of GJ 887
Aug 21, 2026
Space
NASA's twin study found one modest thing
Aug 21, 2026
Space
The fastest spacecraft ever built didn't set its record by firing a rocket engine
Aug 20, 2026
Space
The computer that guided Apollo 11 to the Moon had only about 4 kilobytes of working memory and a processor running at roughly 1 MHz
Aug 19, 2026
Space
Titan is the only world beyond Earth where you could step outside without a pressure suit
Aug 19, 2026
Space
Enceladus sprays water, phosphates, molecular hydrogen and complex organics straight out of its buried ocean
Aug 17, 2026
Space
For decades, scientists believed Titan hid a vast global ocean beneath its frozen crust
Aug 17, 2026
Space
In December 2025, startup Starcloud trained the first large language model ever trained in orbit, using an NVIDIA H100
Aug 17, 2026