In 2017, a single lightning bolt stretched an incredible 829 kilometres from Texas to Missouri, setting a mind-boggling world record for…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 17, 2026
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You never see the Sun as it is, only as it was
By Mal James · Jul 17, 2026
Earth’s atmosphere does not end where space begins—it stretches beyond the Moon, meaning lunar astronauts were technically still inside it
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 16, 2026
The engineers who built Voyager knew they would almost certainly be dead before it left the solar system, and they built it anyway, a gift…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 15, 2026
When Ann Druyan’s heartbeat was recorded for the Voyager Golden Record, she had just fallen in love with Carl Sagan, meaning a private…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 15, 2026
In 1982, the Soviet Venera 13 lander transmitted for 127 minutes from Venus's surface, returning colour panoramas of basaltic terrain…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 14, 2026
Voyager 1 launched in 1977 with onboard computers holding less memory than a single photo on a modern phone
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 14, 2026
A meteorite that fell near the Australian town of Murchison in 1969 was found to contain grains of stardust up to around 7 billion years old
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 14, 2026
After six months orbiting Earth, astronauts don't just describe seeing the planet differently
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 14, 2026
A spacecraft called DART was deliberately crashed into an asteroid in 2022 to test whether humanity could deflect one, and it worked
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 13, 2026
Voyager 1 was launched in 1977 with a suite of 10 science instruments
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 12, 2026
Astronomers have found 31 of the oldest known quasars burning so soon after the Big Bang that current models struggle to explain how their…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 11, 2026