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Everest is the highest mountain on Earth above sea level, but a volcano in Ecuador called Chimborazo beats it by more than 2,000 metres when measured from the planet's centre — because the Earth bulges at the equator and Chimborazo sits almost exactly - ScienceBlog.comScienceBlog.com · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:22:39 GMTMercury is the Solar System’s smallest planet, but its metallic core fills about 85 per cent of its radius, leaving a rocky shell so thin that cooling has crumpled the surface into cliffs hundreds of kilometres long - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:30:00 GMTEarth has five named oceans, but they form one connected system covering 71 percent of the planet, moving heat, carbon, and nutrients between basins on currents that can take a millennium to circle the globe - ScienceBlog.comScienceBlog.com · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:22:51 GMTAs the planet heats up, butterflies are seeking out cooler climes - nz.news.yahoo.comnz.news.yahoo.com · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:39:45 GMTAt 25, the big shift: why we are sure humans heat the planet - futura-sciences.comfutura-sciences.com · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 11:40:23 GMTIn 1972, an Apollo 16 astronaut left his family photograph on the Moon: The message identifies them as vi - timesofindia.indiatimes.comtimesofindia.indiatimes.com · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:50:00 GMTVoyager 2 may have caught Uranus on a freak day — a 2024 reanalysis suggests the 1986 flyby that shaped four decades of understanding arrived during a compressed state estimated to occur only about 4% of the time - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:15:15 GMTFor 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 GMT