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Every commercial jet flying today gets struck by lightning roughly once a year — a 200,000-ampere bolt courses through the fuselage and exits via the tail, and most passengers land at their destination never knowing it happened - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 01:30:00 GMTAbout 46,000 objects are now tracked around Earth, and roughly 30,000 are not functioning satellites — one collision can turn two of them into thousands, making orbital debris a risk that manufactures more of itself - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:30:00 GMTThe most extensive review of dementia risk to date found nearly half of all cases trace back to 14 everyday factors, from hearing loss to untreated vision problems, most of which have more to do with your health than your age - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:00:56 GMTNASA has contracted a purpose-built spacecraft to push the International Space Station out of orbit in late 2030, steering the 430-tonne structure towards the remote South Pacific near Point Nemo, where passing astronauts can briefly be the nearest humans - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:30:00 GMTNASA timed Voyager 2’s 1977 launch to catch an alignment of the four outer planets that only lines up once every 176 years, letting a single spacecraft slingshot past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune on borrowed gravity — a shortcut through the solar syst - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 13:30:00 GMTOne night in 1986, a peaceful lake in Cameroon released an invisible cloud of carbon dioxide that swept through nearby villages — killing people and animals in their sleep and revealing one of the rarest natural disasters on Earth. - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:00:47 GMTEvery turn of Curiosity’s six aluminium wheels stamps the letters JPL into Mars in Morse code — a signature hidden in dots and dashes that is not merely decorative, because the rover photographs those tracks to measure how far its wheels slipped on sand an - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:30:00 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 GMT