When Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev launched to the Mir station in May 1991 from Baikonur in the Kazakh SSR, he was a citizen of the…
By The Long View · Aug 5, 2026
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The sun is actually white, not yellow — its visible wavelengths reach Earth as white light, but our atmosphere scatters the shorter blue…
By Daniel Moran · Aug 3, 2026
The Soviet Lunokhod 1 rover went silent on the Moon in 1971, then scientists found its lost reflector in 2010 and got a signal bright…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 3, 2026
How did a captured wartime rocket fired from a New Mexico desert in 1946 return the first photograph of Earth from above the atmosphere…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 31, 2026
Magnetars have the strongest sustained magnetic fields known
By Mal James · Jul 23, 2026
The moon is drifting away from Earth at 3.8 centimetres a year, so what happens to us as it goes?
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 23, 2026
There is a moon of Saturn where the rain is essentially liquid natural gas, the mountains are made of water frozen so hard it behaves like…
By Kiran Journals · Jul 22, 2026
No wind stirs the Moon and no rain falls there, and that stillness has a strange consequence
By Mal James · Jul 22, 2026
A private Indian rocket just carried a lab-grown diamond lotus to orbit, and the payload manifest quietly reveals what New Delhi actually…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 22, 2026
Astronomers just confirmed the first atmosphere around a rocky planet in another star's habitable zone
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 20, 2026
Energy created in the Sun’s core can spend around 170,000 years bouncing through the radiative zone before reaching the outer layers
By Lachlan Brown · Jul 20, 2026
Astronauts lose roughly 1% of their bone mineral density every month in orbit
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 18, 2026