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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 " the oldest solid material ever identified on Earth, formed long before the Sun or planets existed.
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French scientist Michel Siffre spent two months alone in a cave with no clock, no calendar, and no sunlight " and when his team finally told him the experiment was over, he thought he still had nearly a month left underground
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Voyager 1 is now so far from Earth that a signal traveling at the speed of light takes more than 22 hours to reach it " so when engineers send a command, they can wait nearly two days to know whether the spacecraft responded
14+ hour, 42+ min ago (166+ words) Sending a command to Voyager 1 is closer to mailing a letter than placing a phone call. Published May 24, 2026 Suzy Dodd, the Voyager project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, put the cadence concretely: "If I send a command and say,…...
China is sending an astronaut to its space station for a full year " a national record " as Beijing races toward a 2030 crewed moon landing, two years behind NASA's target
15+ hour, 32+ min ago (170+ words) At 11: 08 p. m. local time on Sunday, May 24, 2026, the Long March-2 F Y23 carrier rocket is scheduled to lift off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, carrying the Shenzhou-23 vessel and three astronauts to China's Tiangong space station. Published May…...
The Voyager Golden Record carries greetings in 55 languages " a deliberate attempt to send a small sample of human voices into deep space long after the spacecraft fell silent.
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A tiny jellyfish can reverse its own life cycle when injured or starving, turning back into its younger self instead of dying of old age like everything else
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The Vela satellites were built to catch secret nuclear tests, but they accidentally recorded flashes from deep space that opened a new branch of astrophysics
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (1001+ words) Published May 24, 2026 The Vela satellites were not built to study stars. They were built to watch for nuclear weapons. Then the satellites saw something that was not a bomb. On July 2, 1967, Vela 4 recorded a short flash of gamma radiation. The…...
Atomic oxygen in low Earth orbit slowly eats spacecraft surfaces, and the ISS survives because engineers learned to coat, test, and replace the materials most vulnerable to it
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (1470+ words) Published May 24, 2026 Roughly 400 kilometres above Earth, the International Space Station is flying through a kind of invisible chemical weather. The station is not moving through empty space. It is moving through the thin upper atmosphere, where sunlight breaks oxygen molecules…...
Webb just clocked nearly 9, 000 young star clusters and found the biggest ones break from their birth clouds in 5 million years, a timing clue that could reshape how astronomers model galaxies growing up
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (980+ words) Published May 24, 2026 The James Webb Space Telescope has given astronomers a sharper look at how young star clusters escape their birthplaces, and the result cuts against the simple intuition that smaller clusters should clear out faster. In a Nature Astronomy…...
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