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
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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…
Aug 5, 2026
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…
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?
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…
Jul 22, 2026
Astronomers just confirmed the first atmosphere around a rocky planet in another star's habitable zone
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