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Uranus rotates almost completely on its side, tipped by 97.77 degrees, most likely by a giant impact billions of years ago — but its tilted moons keep the case from being closed - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:30:00 GMTNASA's whole 2026 budget was 24 billion dollars, a new poverty-economics study puts the real price of ending extreme poverty at up to 318 billion dollars a year, and the math behind 'fund poverty instead of space' turns out to run the wrong direction - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:00:40 GMTVoyager 2 may have caught Uranus on a freak day — a 2024 reanalysis suggests the 1986 flyby that shaped four decades of understanding arrived during a compressed state estimated to occur only about 4% of the time - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:15:15 GMTFor 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 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 GMTFinland is still rising out of the sea after the last ice age, so new land keeps appearing along its coast — but under Finnish law it does not automatically belong to whoever owns the shore in front of it - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:00:53 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 GMT