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On 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 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 GMTEvery 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 GMTUranus 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 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’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 GMTMore than 45,000 meteorites have been collected from Antarctica, not because more fall there, but because flowing ice carries dark rocks into blue-ice stranding zones while the wind strips away snow, concentrating pieces of the Moon, Mars and asteroids on o - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 06:25:39 GMT