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In 1994, a bushwalker rappelling into a sandstone canyon 150 kilometres from Sydney found a stand of trees with waxy bubbled bark that matched fossils 90 million years old, and the Wollemi pine turned out to be a species everyone had assumed died with th - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 03:09:33 GMTNASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto in 2015 and kept going, and in January 2019 it photographed a small icy world called Arrokoth four billion miles from the Sun, the most distant object ever visited, shaped like two snowballs gently stuck together - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:30:00 GMTNeptune sits more than a billion kilometres farther from the Sun, yet parts of Uranus’s atmosphere fall to minus 224 degrees Celsius and become colder — a reversal scientists associate with the strange planet releasing remarkably little heat from its own interio - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 11:30:00 GMTA study of 302 free-roaming Chernobyl dogs found two genetically distinct populations just 16 kilometres apart, but when researchers went looking for extra mutations to explain the split, they could not find any - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 05:30:40 GMTAround 1,200 people quietly moved back into the Chernobyl exclusion zone after the evacuation and were mostly left alone. Most were elderly, many were women, and only a small remnant remains; the population has dwindled largely because it was old and - Space DailySpace Daily · Fri, 07 Aug 2026 03:34:48 GMTChernobyl’s exclusion zone, emptied of most human activity after the 1986 nuclear disaster, is now home to abundant populations of wolves, lynx, deer, and introduced Przewalski’s horses—with one major study finding several large mammals as numerous as - Space DailySpace Daily · Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:30:00 GMTWomen born in South Korea in 1896 were estimated to average about 142 centimetres tall. Those born in 1996 averaged about 162. No female population gained more — 20.2 centimetres across a century of birth cohorts - Space DailySpace Daily · Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:00:08 GMTMars was once covered in rivers and lakes, and the mystery of where all that water went now has two answers: some was stripped away into space, and a great deal of it may still be there, locked deep in the planet's crust - Space DailySpace Daily · Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:05:33 GMT