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After a crippled seven-year journey Japan's Hayabusa probe limped home in 2010 and burned up in the sky over Australia, but not before releasing the first asteroid samples ever returned to Earth. - Space Daily

Japan’s Hayabusa probe returned to Earth on 13 June 2010, breaking apart in a bright streak over the Woomera Test Range in South Australia. About three hours before that final reentry, it had released a 40-centimetre capsule, which parachuted down into the ou…

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There are about 20 quadrillion ants alive on Earth at any moment — enough that their combined biomass outweighs every wild bird and mammal on the planet combined, even though the often-repeated claim that ant biomass equals human biomass has been - Space Daily

The 2022 paper that established the modern estimate of how many ants are alive on Earth was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Patrick Schultheiss, Sabine Nooten and colleagues. The work was conducted at the University of Hong…

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Bolted to Pioneer 10 is a plaque showing two humans and a cosmic map back to Earth, while the spacecraft itself is now a silent ghost ship drifting toward Aldebaran, a star it will not pass for another two million years. - Space Daily

Bolted to the side of Pioneer 10 is a gold-anodised aluminium plaque, about 152 by 229 millimetres, engraved with the figures of a man and a woman and a set of symbols meant to mark where and when the spacecraft came from. The craft that carries it has been s…

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The Sun is not standing still. It is carrying the entire Solar System around the centre of the Milky Way, and one lap takes roughly 230 million years. The last time we were this far around the galaxy, Earth was in the Triassic Period and the very first dinosaurs wer - Space Daily

The Sun is not fixed in space. It carries the entire Solar System around the centre of the Milky Way, completing one lap in roughly 230 million years. One galactic year ago, Earth was in the Late Triassic, and the first dinosaurs were only just beginning to a…

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When Zhang Chenxing, who holds a PhD from MIT, co-founded Mega Engine Technology in Xi'an in early 2024, China's high-pressure oxygen-rich staged-combustion know-how sat almost entirely inside state propulsion houses — and by May 2026 his startu - Space Daily

Roughly two years after it opened its doors, a Xi’an commercial startup called Mega Engine Technology has announced that a single high-pressure oxygen-rich staged-combustion kerolox engine accumulated 1,000 seconds of run time at rated conditions across its t…

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Researchers teach brain cells to play 'Doom' - Phys.org

Australian researchers have trained lab-grown brain cells on a silicon computer chip to play the nineties shooter game "Doom" and say they are just scratching the surface of what the neurons could be capable of doing.

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The Moon is stealing time from the Earth, and it has been getting away with it for billions of years. Our planet spins so much slower than it once did that a single day has stretched from just 19 hours to the 24 we live by, and the Moon is still creeping away from u - Space Daily

Earth’s spin is slowing, the day is getting longer, and the Moon is drifting outward at about 3.8 centimetres a year, a figure measured by bouncing lasers off the reflectors the Apollo missions left on the surface. Two things in the popular telling are worth …

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There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way. A major global estimate put the planet’s tree count at about three trillion, while NASA gives the Milky Way’s star count as roughly 100 to 400 billion. - Space Daily

The most cited global estimate puts the number of trees on Earth at about three trillion. NASA gives the Milky Way somewhere between 100 and 400 billion stars. Three trillion is more than seven times the high end of that range, so there are indeed more trees …

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