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Australian researchers fitted five magpies with GPS trackers to map their movements, but the birds began removing one another’s harnesses within minutes, turning a failed trial into an unexpected observation of cooperation - Space DailySpace Daily · Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:30:00 GMTThere's a parasite in the ocean that doesn't just feed on its host, it becomes part of it — Cymothoa exigua enters a fish through the gills, kills off its tongue by cutting the blood supply, and then attaches itself to the stump, living the rest of its life as the fish's new, f - Space DailySpace Daily · Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:15:12 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 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 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 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