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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....
In 1994, a park ranger abseiling into a canyon 150 kilometres northwest of Sydney found a stand of trees with knobbly bark that matched 90-million-year-old fossils, and the Wollemi pine's exact location is still classified
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (127+ words) In September 1994, off-duty NSW park ranger David Noble abseiled into a slot canyon 150 kilometres from Sydney and found a stand of trees that matched 90-million-year-old fossils. Fewer than 90 wild Wollemi pines remain, and the Australian government still keeps the grove's…...
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 Italians named it Devil's Valley because of the steam pouring straight out of the ground. Turns out the steam was the mild part. A few kilometres below it sits enough molten rock to fill Lake Geneva forty times over
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (689+ words) Beneath Italy's steam vents lies a geothermal powerhouse so vast it could revolutionize how Europe generates clean energy—if engineers can safely tap into it. Published August 8, 2026 · How we edit The steam has been coming out of the ground for…...
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…...
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…...
Large parts of Antarctica were once covered in temperate forest, and fossilised wood, leaves and roots preserved in its rocks reveal a green polar world where dinosaurs roamed beneath months of winter darkness.
2+ mon, 19+ hour ago (860+ words) The easiest mistake to make about Antarctica is to treat the ice as if it has always been there. Published July 12, 2026 The easiest mistake to make about Antarctica is to treat the ice as if it has always been there....
In 2025, Antarctic drillers reached bedrock and recovered ice that fell as snow 1.2 million years ago — with the air of that vanished world still sealed inside it
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (782+ words) A time capsule of ancient air reveals how Earth's climate operated in a world before humans existed....
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…...
Earth has had eight continents all along — the one missing from every map and school textbook is nearly twice the size of India, 94 percent underwater, and has been quietly sitting beneath the South Pacific for 85 million years
1+ mon, 9+ hour ago (108+ words) Zealandia is a coherent 4.9-million-square-kilometre body of continental crust, about 94 per cent submerged. Its classification depends on geology beneath the coastline, not a newly discovered landmass....