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In 2015, scientists sent amputated flatworms to the space station; one returned and regrew two heads instead of one - The Times of IndiaThe Times of India · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 08:30:00 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 - spacedaily.comspacedaily.com · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:30:00 GMTChina’s lunar research station could be guarded by robot watchdogs: scientists - South China Morning PostSouth China Morning Post · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:00:10 GMTNeptune sits more than a billion kilometres farther from the Sun, yet parts of Uranus’s atmosphere fall to minus 224 degrees Celsius and become colder — a reversal scientists associate with the strange planet releasing remarkably little heat from its own interio - spacedaily.comspacedaily.com · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 11:30:00 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 - spacedaily.comspacedaily.com · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 06:25:39 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 - spacedaily.comspacedaily.com · 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 - spacedaily.comspacedaily.com · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 02:25:50 GMTIn the driest desert on Earth lies a landscape so hostile it resembles Mars — ancient salt flats, near-lifeless soils, towering volcanoes, and some of the clearest skies on the planet, where scientists search for clues about life beyond Earth. - spacedaily.comspacedaily.com · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 01:30:09 GMT