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A dark rock picked off the gravel plains of Oman turned out to be a piece of Mars, blasted off the planet by an impact. It now rides aboard Perseverance as a calibration target, back on the world it came from
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (467+ words) A meteorite that fell to Earth from Mars now helps calibrate instruments on a rover exploring the Red Planet—a cosmic round trip that took 300,000 years. By Space Daily Editorial Team Published August 11, 2026 · How we edit In 1999, out on the…...
The stripes on Perseverance's parachute were mostly there so engineers could see how the canopy was oriented, but the pattern also hid a message in binary, and the internet decoded it within hours of the landing — a motto, and a set of coordinates pointing at a spot on Earth
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (436+ words) NASA engineers hid a secret message in the Perseverance rover's parachute stripes—one that amateur codebreakers cracked before the dust had settled on Mars....
Mercury is shrinking — as its iron core slowly cools, the whole planet has contracted by up to seven kilometres, wrinkling its surface into cliffs hundreds of miles long
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (349+ words) Mercury carries the record of planetary cooling across its surface. Long, curving cliffs cut through craters and plains because the small planet lost internal...
For decades the heavy rocks that carve trails across a Death Valley lakebed were never seen moving, until cameras caught them gliding on thin rafts of melting ice pushed by a light wind
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (52+ words) On Racetrack Playa, stones heavy enough to need two hands leave grooves in the dried mud as if they walk. A weather station, fifteen GPS-fitted rocks and a set of time-lapse cameras finally recorded the cause, and it was almost…...
Deep beneath the ocean floor lies a strange form of ice that can literally catch fire — frozen crystals packed with methane, hiding enormous stores of gas inside what looks like ordinary ice.
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (259+ words) Scientists are racing to unlock an energy source that could power civilization for centuries—or accelerate climate catastrophe if it escapes. Published August 8, 2026 · How we edit Somewhere beneath the seafloor of nearly every continent right now, there’s a layer of…...
The Moon is rusting even though it has no air and almost no liquid water — and the leading explanation is that oxygen escaping Earth rides our magnetic tail 385,000 kilometres into space during the few days each month when the solar wind is blocked
3+ week, 1+ day ago (687+ words) Chandrayaan-1 found hematite near the lunar poles. Orbital patterns and laboratory tests point to oxygen ions escaping Earth and reaching the Moon through our magnetotail....
Researchers placed 650 geophones along Yellowstone's roads and sent a vibrating truck to 110 different spots to deliberately shake America's most-visited supervolcano, and the echoes revealed a layer 2.4 miles down that is roughly 86 percent solid rock.
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (177+ words) Signs · Edited by Nato Lagidze Published September 9, 2026 · How we edit That imaging revealed a distinct,...
Earth’s inner core is an iron-rich ball as hot as the surface of the Sun, kept solid only because the crushing pressure of the entire planet raises the temperature at which iron can melt
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (686+ words) Earth's centre sounds like a contradiction. The inner core is hot enough to sit in the same temperature range as the visible surface of the Sun, yet it is not...
We have mapped the surface of Mars, the Moon and Venus in sharper detail than the floor of our own ocean, most of which no human instrument has ever seen up close
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (569+ words) Published July 8, 2026 Here is a claim that sounds like an exaggeration and is not: the best global maps of Mars, the Moon and Venus resolve finer detail than the best global map of the floor of our own ocean. The…...
The US Navy once sent aquanauts to live on the ocean floor for weeks, hoping SEALAB would prove humans could colonise the deep. Instead, one diver died, the program collapsed, and the underwater future quietly disappeared
3+ week, 4+ day ago (551+ words) What began as humanity's bold dream to conquer the ocean's depths became a cautionary tale about the limits of ambition and the price of pushing too far too fast. Published August 18, 2026 · How we edit Carpenter was the second American to…...