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…
By The Long View · Aug 26, 2026
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Planets, astronomy, and exploration beyond Earth.
Only one antenna on Earth can still send commands to Voyager 2
By The Long View · Aug 25, 2026
Astronomers discovered a comet passing through our solar system in July 2025 carrying organic molecules formed in a distant star system—the…
By The Long View · Aug 23, 2026
A laser array on Earth could one day push a gram-scale spacecraft to roughly 20% of the speed of light
By The Long View · Aug 21, 2026
Astronomers have confirmed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of GJ 887
By Lab Report · Aug 21, 2026
NASA's twin study found one modest thing
By Lab Report · Aug 21, 2026
The fastest spacecraft ever built didn't set its record by firing a rocket engine
By The Long View · Aug 20, 2026
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
By Lab Report · Aug 19, 2026
Titan is the only world beyond Earth where you could step outside without a pressure suit
By The Long View · Aug 19, 2026
Enceladus sprays water, phosphates, molecular hydrogen and complex organics straight out of its buried ocean
By The Long View · Aug 17, 2026
For decades, scientists believed Titan hid a vast global ocean beneath its frozen crust
By The Long View · Aug 17, 2026
In December 2025, startup Starcloud trained the first large language model ever trained in orbit, using an NVIDIA H100
By Lab Report · Aug 17, 2026