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For roughly a billion years of Earth’s deep past, the Moon’s ocean tides may have slowed the planet while a Sun-driven atmospheric tide sped it up, holding the day near 19 hours — but the rocks preserve a hypothesis, not a stopwatch - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:30:00 GMTDeep beneath the ocean floor lies a strange form of ice that can literally catch fire — frozen crystals packed with methane, hiding enormous stores of gas inside what looks like ordinary ice. - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:00:41 GMTEarth's core holds enough gold to cover every continent in a layer 50 centimetres deep, but until volcanic rocks from Hawaii were analysed in 2025, geologists assumed it was sealed away forever — the core turns out to be leaking - Space DailySpace Daily · Thu, 06 Aug 2026 23:30:00 GMTJupiter has no ground to stand on at all — descend far enough into its atmosphere and there's no solid surface waiting, only thickening gas that eventually behaves like liquid metal, a world where the very idea of "landing" stops making sense - Space DailySpace Daily · Thu, 06 Aug 2026 10:15:51 GMTOn a South Korean island, most of the professional divers who free-dive twenty meters into the sea on a single breath are grandmothers — some in their 80s and 90s, still working the ocean floor for hours a day, in a tradition once passed only to daughters - Space DailySpace Daily · Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:30:27 GMTThere's a river in Spain that runs deep red and is as acidic as vinegar — so hostile that most ordinary life can't survive it, yet it teems with unique iron- and sulfur-oxidizing microbes that give it that color, and it so resembles Mars that NASA uses it to rehearse th - Space DailySpace Daily · Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:15:38 GMTChinese rocket scientists have modelled the most effective way to nuke a doomsday asteroid, and it is not a blast at the surface: first drill a hole, then bury the bomb about thirty metres down, which their simulations say more than triples the deflection - Space DailySpace Daily · Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:03:28 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