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Titan is never the same distance from Earth twice: the gap can run from about 1.2 billion kilometres to nearly 1.65 billion depending on where both worlds sit in their orbits, stretching a signal's one-way trip from just over an hour to past ninety minutes - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:30:00 GMTMercury is the Solar System’s smallest planet, but its metallic core fills about 85 per cent of its radius, leaving a rocky shell so thin that cooling has crumpled the surface into cliffs hundreds of kilometres long - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:30:00 GMTSaudi Arabia sits on the world's largest sand desert and yet imports sand by the shipload from Australia and Scotland, because the wind-rounded grains of the Empty Quarter are too smooth to bind in concrete and modern construction can only use the jagged - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:33:38 GMTVoyager 1 is down to two working science instruments, and the fix that just bought its twin, Voyager 2, another year of power is now being tested on a probe NASA says no longer behaves quite like its sibling - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:20:22 GMTIn 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 GMTSome of the loneliest people in their fifties aren't the ones without partners or children, they're the ones surrounded by people who only know the version of them that shows up when everyone else needs something - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:09:30 GMTThe Greenland shark grows about one centimetre per year and does not reach sexual maturity until roughly age 150, meaning the pups being born in the North Atlantic this year will not breed until the 22nd century - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:05:09 GMTIn 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 GMT