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
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At 430,000 miles per hour, Parker Solar Probe could cross Australia east to west in about 21 seconds
By The Long View · Aug 12, 2026
In 1859 the Carrington storm shocked telegraph operators and pushed auroras to Cuba
By The Long View · Aug 11, 2026
ISS crews see 16 sunrises each day, but their bodies do not adopt a 90-minute clock
By Mind & Matter · Aug 11, 2026
For the first time in history, oxygen was produced on the surface of another planet
By Daniel Moran · Aug 11, 2026
The Voyager 1 probe, launched in 1977, is now so far from Earth that a radio signal travelling at the speed of light takes over 22 hours to…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 11, 2026
Much of the gold on Earth, in wedding rings and dental fillings and central bank reserve bars, was likely forged when neutron stars…
By The Long View · Aug 10, 2026
The surface of Venus is more than 200°C hotter than a home oven
By Mal James · Aug 10, 2026
Titan has rivers, rainfall, lakes and a slow hydrological cycle remarkably like Earth's
By Brendan Brown · Aug 9, 2026
Astronauts come home from the space station up to two inches taller than when they left
By Brendan Brown · Aug 9, 2026
Nobody on Earth is legally allowed to own the Moon, and yet one man claims to have sold more than 600 million acres of it
By Kiran Journals · Aug 6, 2026
The hottest planet in the solar system isn't the one closest to the sun
By Daniel Moran · Aug 6, 2026