Space
More than 60 percent of all meteorites ever found on Earth came from Antarctica
Aug 16, 2026
Space and Astronomy
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Space
The Sun’s outer atmosphere is roughly 200 times hotter than its visible surface
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 15, 2026
Space
A comet from another star system arrived in our solar system in July 2025 carrying water ice from a planetary system that formed billions…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 15, 2026
Space
Voyager 1 is whispering back to Earth with a radio transmitter about as powerful as a refrigerator light bulb, from roughly 16 billion…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 15, 2026
Space
In 2016, SpaceX said it would land an uncrewed spacecraft on Mars as soon as 2018. In 2017, Musk moved the first cargo landings to 2022. In…
Aug 15, 2026
Space
Einstein added a cosmological constant to his equations in 1917, later regarded it as one of his great mistakes, and physicists resurrected…
Aug 15, 2026
Space
Scientists thought Titan was hiding a global ocean beneath its frozen crust
Aug 15, 2026
Space
The Sun's magnetic field flips every 11 years, a turnover so fast that current models struggle to explain how its magnetic flux dissipates…
Aug 14, 2026
Space
NASA's Curiosity rover has detected methane on Mars dozens of times since 2012, including a spike of 21 parts per billion in 2019. Europe's…
Aug 14, 2026
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From space, the Sun is white — the yellow colour we see from Earth is our own atmosphere scattering away blue wavelengths, the same physics…
Aug 12, 2026
Space
A 14-year-old who applied to NASA was turned down
By Mal James · Aug 12, 2026
Space
Voyager 1 has been moving through space since 1977, now faster than a speeding bullet, and it still has not covered a single light-year of…
By Mal James · Aug 12, 2026
Space
Much of the gold on Earth, in wedding rings and dental fillings and central bank reserve bars, was likely forged when neutron stars…
Aug 10, 2026
Space
A Canadian astronaut spent three years training for Boeing's Starliner-1, the mission was converted to cargo-only before it ever flew with…
Aug 5, 2026