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The stripes on Perseverance's parachute were mostly there so engineers could see how the canopy was oriented, but the pattern also hid a message in binary, and the internet decoded it within hours of the landing — a motto, and a set of coordinates pointing - Space DailySpace Daily · Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:30:20 GMTAustralian researchers fitted five magpies with GPS trackers to map their movements, but the birds began removing one another’s harnesses within minutes, turning a failed trial into an unexpected observation of cooperation - Space DailySpace Daily · Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:30:00 GMTFifty kilometres above Venus, pressure and temperature become surprisingly Earth-like and ordinary breathable air could keep a habitat afloat, but living there would mean building a sealed world inside sulphuric-acid clouds - Space DailySpace Daily · Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:30:00 GMTThe asteroid that ended the dinosaur age struck Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula about 66 million years ago, and the sulphur-rich rocks beneath it helped turn a roughly 10-kilometre object into a global climate disaster - Space DailySpace Daily · Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:30:00 GMTThere's a parasite in the ocean that doesn't just feed on its host, it becomes part of it — Cymothoa exigua enters a fish through the gills, kills off its tongue by cutting the blood supply, and then attaches itself to the stump, living the rest of its life as the fish's new, f - Space DailySpace Daily · Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:15:12 GMTA grain of stardust extracted from the Murchison meteorite that landed in Victoria in 1969 was dated to roughly 7 billion years old, meaning it condensed in the atmosphere of a dying star more than 2 billion years before the Sun existed - Space DailySpace Daily · Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:47:29 GMTAt 224 kilometres above Earth, ESA's GOCE could have as little as two days to recover from a propulsion interruption: very low Earth orbit sharpens satellite images, but the atmosphere never stops pulling the spacecraft down - Space DailySpace Daily · Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:30:00 GMTThere's a bird in Uganda's swamps so strange-looking that tourists who finally spot one don't just call it rare, they call it prehistoric — a four-foot-tall creature with a hooked, razor-edged bill that looks like it wandered out of the age of dinosaurs - Space DailySpace Daily · Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:15:44 GMT