In 1990, after years of lobbying by Carl Sagan, Voyager 1 turned its camera back toward home from about 6 billion kilometres away and photographed Earth as a pale blue speck smaller than a single pixel — an image NASA had repeatedly resisted because it - Space Daily
On 14 February 1990, the Voyager 1 spacecraft turned its cameras back toward the inner solar system and photographed the...
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 - Space Daily
Sending a command to Voyager 1 is closer to mailing a letter than placing a phone call. The probe, launched in September...
15 sci-fi books you absolutely have to read before you die. - Space
From Isaac Asimov to Andy Weir, we've rounded up the best sci-fi books you have to read....
Evidence of Ancient Life Found Buried Under an Asteroid Crater - ScienceAlert
Somehow, on this beautiful blue marble we call Earth, the astonishing phenomenon we call life emerged long ago, spreadin...
Student Captures Cosmic Radiation on Film by Sending Negative to Space - PetaPixel
The film captured something beautiful and otherworldly....
China launches 'human artificial embryos' to space in bid to see whether reproduction is possible off-world - Yahoo
China's Tianzhou-10 mission just delivered embryo-like structures made from living stem cells to the Tiangong space stat...
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. - Space Daily
In April 2026, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory switched off another instrument on Voyager 1 — the Low-...
Chinese scientists suggest harsh environments foster early human creativity - South China Morning Post
The research unveils a more intricate narrative of innovation, intelligence, and human evolution in East Asia....
The Universe Is Full of ‘Impossible’ Black Holes. Scientists Now Know Why - WIRED
There are black holes that are too big to be born from the death of a star but aren’t quite supermassive either. There...
NASA to add missions to SpaceX commercial crew contract - SpaceNews
NASA plans to add missions to SpaceX’s commercial crew contract, protecting the agency from the possibility that Boein...
Massive gravity “hole” beneath the Indian Ocean finally gets a possible explanation after decades of scie - The Times of India
Science News: For decades, a vast region south of India has quietly refused to make sense. Satellites mapping Earth’s ...
A NASA satellite launched in 1976 carries a Carl Sagan–designed plaque sealed inside its core, mapping Earth's continents 268 million years ago, at launch, and 8.4 million years from now — and that last date is no accident, because it's roughly when the sat - Space Daily
On 4 May 1976, NASA launched a satellite called LAGEOS-1 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. It is one of 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 - Space Daily
Atomic oxygen, the most common particle in low Earth orbit, chemically erodes spacecraft surfaces continuously. The ISS ...
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 - Space Daily
The U.S. military's nuclear detection satellites started catching mysterious gamma-ray flashes in 1967 that did not matc...
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 - Space Daily
The James Webb Space Telescope has given astronomers a sharper look at how young star clusters escape their birthplaces,...
NASA reorganizes to accelerate Moon Base, lunar programs - Ground News
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The Hubble Deep Field began as a gamble on a tiny patch of sky that had been chosen because it looked almost empty, and it ended by revealing nearly 3,000 galaxies hiding in what seemed like nothing. - Space Daily
In December 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope spent ten days staring at a small, deliberately unremarkable patch of sky. ...
Titan’s atmosphere is thicker than Earth’s, its rivers and lakes are made of methane and ethane, and NASA is sending a nuclear-powered drone there because on Saturn’s largest moon, flying may be easier than driving. - Space Daily
Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, has a denser atmosphere than Earth and a surface where rain, rivers, and seas are mad...
Controlled experiments reveal how nuclear fallout particles form - Phys.org
In less than a millionth of a second after a nuclear detonation or a severe nuclear reactor accident, an enormous burst ...
I spent years assuming my personality was fixed — then I learned what neuroplasticity actually means and realised I had been maintaining myself like a finished product instead of a living system - Space Daily
The adult human brain contains somewhere between 86 and 100 billion neurons. Each of those neurons can form thousands of...
A Radical Innovation Helped Archaic Humans Survive a Harsh Ice Age - ScienceAlert
A brainy human relative who lived during an ice age nearly 150,000 years ago adapted to the bitter cold by developing a...
Extreme 8.5-minute orbit reveals white dwarf being torn apart by its binary companion - Phys.org
A team of U.S. astronomers has observed a binary pair of white dwarfs where one star is actively devouring material from...
The human genome contains traces of ancient viruses that infected our ancestors millions of years ago — and some of those viral leftovers were later repurposed into genes that help make human pregnancy possible - Space Daily
Both halves of this claim are well supported, and neither rests on a single study. About 8 percent of the human genome, ...
A glacier bigger than Washington state is melting faster than ever. The implications are dire - OregonLive.com
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