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For roughly a billion years of Earth’s deep past, the Moon’s ocean tides may have slowed the planet while a Sun-driven atmospheric tide sped it up, holding the day near 19 hours — but the rocks preserve a hypothesis, not a stopwatch - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:30:00 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 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 GMTIndia landed its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft near the Moon’s south pole in August 2023 on a mission that cost around 75 million dollars, reportedly less than the production budget of several big-budget Hollywood space movies, making it one of the cheapest jo - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:00:00 GMTNASA timed Voyager 2’s 1977 launch to catch an alignment of the four outer planets that only lines up once every 176 years, letting a single spacecraft slingshot past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune on borrowed gravity — a shortcut through the solar syst - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 13:30:00 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 - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 11:30:00 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 GMTThe Voyager 1 probe, launched in 1977, crossed into interstellar space in 2012 — but it will still take many thousands of years to exit the Oort Cloud, meaning it has technically left the solar system and is nowhere near leaving the solar system at the same time - Space DailySpace Daily · Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:30:00 GMT