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Mars is no longer one grand mission: Perseverance has driven a marathon, sample return is still being redesigned, and NASA's Aeolus partnership shows how much Martian weather we still need to learn - Space DailySpace Daily · Mon, 10 Aug 2026 02:30:00 GMTA child who can see 250 stars today may see fewer than 100 from the same place at eighteen: 51,351 naked-eye observations found the night sky brightening far faster than satellites had measured - Space DailySpace Daily · Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:30:00 GMTThe Mission Robotic Vehicle launched on July 21 with two seven-jointed arms meant to inspect, relocate and upgrade ageing satellites; after a year-long trip, it is meant to test whether spacecraft can become serviceable infrastructure - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:45:00 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 construction sand from Australia, because the wind-rounded grains of the Empty Quarter are too smooth to bind in concrete and modern construction needs the jagged sand pulled from riverb - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:33:38 GMTA six-year-old boy recorded the English greeting now drifting through interstellar space on Voyager's Golden Record, and he was not chosen at random — Carl Sagan's son Nick said: "Hello from the children of planet Earth." - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 11:00:52 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 GMTÖtzi the Iceman has been frozen for 5,300 years and kept in a chilled room at minus six for the last thirty. Scientists just checked him over properly and found things living on him — some of which appear to have been there the whole time - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 02:25:50 GMT