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In 1868, French astronomer Pierre Janssen pointed a spectroscope at a solar eclipse in India and saw a yellow line that matched no known element on Earth, and the gas he identified in the Sun's chromosphere — named helium, after helios — would not be fo - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:09:53 GMTSaturn's moon Mimas looks like a dead, cratered rock — its surface is so inert that scientists assumed it was frozen solid — but in 2024 astronomers confirmed a global ocean hidden beneath the ice, formed just 5 to 15 million years ago - Space DailySpace Daily · Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:34:18 GMTEvery textbook says Venus is Earth's nearest planetary neighbour, but a simulation run over thousands of years of orbital data found that Mercury holds that title on average — because it never strays as far as Venus does on the far side of its orbit - Space DailySpace Daily · Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:30:00 GMTSaturn now has at least 285 confirmed moons — after astronomers recognised 128 new ones in a single announcement in March 2025 and another 11 in March 2026 — making every textbook printed before 2024 quietly wrong on the subject - Space DailySpace Daily · Fri, 07 Aug 2026 03:30:00 GMTA giant planet was hiding in plain sight in one of astronomy's most-studied star systems - Space DailySpace Daily · Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:21 GMTThe Moon has been struck by billions of impactors over four billion years, but the one that hit near Einstein Crater yesterday is the only crater ever formed that comes with a full biography: we know who built it, what it weighed, when it left Earth, and where it hit t - Space DailySpace Daily · Thu, 06 Aug 2026 10:04:56 GMTCuriosity rover spots mysterious honeycombs on Mars photo of the day for Aug. 5, 2026 - SpaceSpace · Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:10:19 GMTA star was torn apart about 30,000 light-years out from its galaxy's core, and astronomers cannot yet say whether the black hole that did it was flung there or is the last dense trace of a swallowed dwarf galaxy - Space DailySpace Daily · Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:00:00 GMT