Equation of Time: June 21, 2026 — StarDate Online
Our clocks tick off a steady 24 hours per day. But if a sundial could record the time…
Investors in China Secretly Acquired Stakes in SpaceX Before IPO: Report
Documents accessed by ProPublica from a corporate dispute in Delaware involving Tomales Bay Capital reveal that Chinese investors…
SpaceX Is Already Pulling Back From Its High. History Says That Is Not a Good Sign
Quick Read SpaceX surged 19% on its IPO debut, but mega-IPOs over $50 billion have historically delivered a…
The longest continuous spaceflight in history — 437 days aboard the Russian Mir space station, completed by cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov in 1995 — was specifically conducted to prove that a human being could survive a round-trip mission to Mars, in a piece of human endurance that has been waiting unused on a shelf for three decades
The record sits at the top of every list of human spaceflight endurance achievements, has been there since…
Victoria wants daily ‘device-free’ time in high schools. What works best for learning?
Victorian high schools have been asked to include “planned device-free time” in their learning from term 1 2027.…
‘Tactical’ Innovation & Capital for Prolonged Conflicts
Image Source: Pexels The Indian space ecosystem has commenced addressing a longstanding challenge crucial to fostering innovation—specifically, the…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Has Traveled The Distance Of A Marathon On Mars
It did so in just five years.
NASA JPL Perseverance is officially a marathon…
Why Pluto Might Still Have A Liquid Ocean
Pluto is so cold that nitrogen and methane freeze into solid ice, yet scientists think a liquid ocean…
Mars Organic Geochemistry-Are We Alone, and Where Did We Come From?
As NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit began collecting images for a 360-degree panorama of new terrain, the rover…
‘Pink Planet’ reveals salt clouds unlike anything seen before
Some planets refuse to make life easy for astronomers. GJ504b is one of them. The planet glows faintly…
James Webb Space Telescope Made a Salty Discovery in This Unusual Exoplanet’s Skies
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations have revealed the colorful secret of the Pink Planet, the coldest object…
Sun rises on longest day in the UK as solstice is celebrated
All eyes on the weatherpublished at 10:25 BST 10:25 BST All eyes have been on the sun this…