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A grain of stardust extracted from the Murchison meteorite that landed in Victoria in 1969 was dated to roughly 7 billion years old, meaning it condensed in the atmosphere of a dying star more than 2 billion years before the Sun existed - Space DailySpace Daily · Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:47:29 GMTThe most secretive facility of the Cold War is named after a town it isn't actually in: the Soviets called it Baikonur specifically to mislead the West, while the true launch site sat two hundred miles away, hidden on the Kazakh steppe - Space DailySpace Daily · Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:15:22 GMTNASA's first Space Shuttle launch lost 16 heat shield tiles and damaged 148 more before it even left the ground, not from any failure, but from the shock wave of its own engines bouncing back off the launch pad - Space DailySpace Daily · Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:30:00 GMTAI actually flying on spacecraft today is a narrow fix for one physical problem, not machine judgment: a Mars rover picks its own laser targets with 93 percent accuracy, and one satellite's entire first AI experiment was built by a single engineer in under two week - Space DailySpace Daily · Mon, 10 Aug 2026 03:30:00 GMTMore than three decades after the genocide, Rwanda has the highest share of women in a lower or single chamber of parliament of any country, and it is not close — 51 of 80 seats, 63.75%, against a global average of about 27%. The constitutional floor is 30 - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 03:00:50 GMTOn August 12, for the first time in 28 months, the Moon's shadow will sweep across Earth in a total solar eclipse over Greenland, Iceland and Spain — and just hours later, the Perseid meteor shower will peak under a moonless sky, setting up one of the most ex - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:22:27 GMTIn the mountains of Kazakhstan lies a forest frozen beneath a turquoise lake — drowned more than a century ago when an earthquake reshaped the valley, leaving hundreds of ghostly tree trunks still standing upright in the water. - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:00:18 GMTArchaeologists examining a 1,600-year-old Egyptian mummy found something no one had ever seen before: a page of Homer's Iliad, used as embalming material — meaning one of the most famous poems in human history spent sixteen centuries wrapped ar - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 01:32:56 GMT