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The idea that Earth is the Solar System's ultimate water world is misleading: Europa likely holds more than twice our ocean's volume beneath a crust of ice, while Enceladus is continuously venting material from its hidden ocean directly into space.
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The idea that Earth is the Solar System’s ultimate water world is misleading: Europa likely holds more than twice our ocean’s volume beneath a crust of ice, while Enceladus is continuously venting material from its hidden ocean directly into space.

  • August 15, 2026
Earth looks like the obvious water world. Oceans cover about 71 per cent of its surface, colour the…
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A meteorite punched through a bedroom ceiling in Hillsborough, New Jersey, in 2024. Scientists have now found hundreds of different amino acids inside it — and the majority are not known to occur naturally on Earth.
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A meteorite punched through a bedroom ceiling in Hillsborough, New Jersey, in 2024. Scientists have now found hundreds of different amino acids inside it — and the majority are not known to occur naturally on Earth.

  • August 15, 2026
On 16 July 2024, a daytime fireball crossed the sky near New York City, generated a sonic boom,…
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In 2018, an amateur astronomer detected a signal from a NASA satellite lost since 2005: The agency confirmed its “dead” spacecraft was still transmitting
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In 2018, an amateur astronomer detected a signal from a NASA satellite lost since 2005: The agency confirmed its “dead” spacecraft was still transmitting

  • August 15, 2026
Launch of IMAGE spacecraft aboard of Delta 277 | Wikimedia Commons For more than 12 years, NASA’s IMAGE…
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NASA rover finds gemstone-like minerals on Mars

  • August 15, 2026
NASA’s Perseverance rover has found unexpected traces of chromium-bearing corundum, a mineral associated with gemstones, in rocks at…
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Can Venus cast a shadow? Here's how to see it for yourself
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Can Venus cast a shadow? Here’s how to see it for yourself

  • August 15, 2026
Can Venus cast a shadow? With Aug. 12’s total solar eclipse — where the moon’s dark silhouette is…
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Baby Name of the Week August 14: Eclipse
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Baby Name of the Week August 14: Eclipse

  • August 15, 2026
Each week, the TODAY Parents team highlights a favorite baby name or set of sibling names. It may…
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Partial solar eclipse over London, captured by Toshi Omagari, 12 August 2026. Equipment: FujiFilm X-E4 camera, Sigma 18–50mm lens, solar filter. Exposure for eclipse: f/8, 1/4000s, ISO 3200, 5-minute intervals. Exposure for Big Ben: f/8, 1/180, ISO 640
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The solar eclipse over Big Ben. Photographer captures the Moon passing in front of the Sun over London

  • August 15, 2026
A photographer has captured a composite image showing the stages of the 12 August 2026 solar eclipse over…
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A planet called WASP-127b, roughly 520 light-years from Earth, has a jet stream ripping around its equator at up to 33,000 km/h — more than 18 times faster than Neptune's winds, the fastest found anywhere in our own Solar System.
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A planet called WASP-127b, roughly 520 light-years from Earth, has a jet stream ripping around its equator at up to 33,000 km/h — more than 18 times faster than Neptune’s winds, the fastest found anywhere in our own Solar System.

  • August 15, 2026
Astronomers have measured atmospheric motion around the equator of WASP-127b at close to 9 kilometres per second, about…
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SpaceX’s Starship generates more than twice the thrust of the Saturn V that carried humans to the Moon, yet after 13 test flights it still hasn’t demonstrated ship-to-ship refueling in orbit — one of the biggest technical hurdles standing between Starship and Mars.
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SpaceX’s Starship generates more than twice the thrust of the Saturn V that carried humans to the Moon, yet after 13 test flights it still hasn’t demonstrated ship-to-ship refueling in orbit — one of the biggest technical hurdles standing between Starship and Mars.

  • August 15, 2026
SpaceX’s Starship V3 leaves its launch pad with roughly 18 million pounds of thrust. NASA credits the Saturn…
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Pluto's sky is blue, chunks of its water-ice mountains float like icebergs across glaciers of frozen nitrogen, and its moon is so large that the two worlds orbit a point in empty space between them — yet Pluto still hasn't completed a single trip around the Sun since humans discovered it in 1930.
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Pluto’s sky is blue, chunks of its water-ice mountains float like icebergs across glaciers of frozen nitrogen, and its moon is so large that the two worlds orbit a point in empty space between them — yet Pluto still hasn’t completed a single trip around the Sun since humans discovered it in 1930.

  • August 15, 2026
A visitor descending towards Pluto would meet contradictions before reaching the ground. Above lies a blue atmospheric haze,…
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The new composite image of the Tarantula Nebula (30 Doradus), layering X-ray data from Chandra (blue), infrared from Webb (red), and optical data from Hubble (green) — the combination that let astronomers trace where the nebula's missing energy has been escaping to (Credit : X-ray: NASA/CXC/Ohio State Univ./J. Rodriguez et al; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/P. Edmonds)
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The Tarantula That Lost Its Fire

  • August 15, 2026
Some of the best science stories start with a puzzle nobody expected. This one begins in the Large…
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A NASA processor now being tested at JPL is performing 500 times faster than the radiation-hardened chips currently used in spaceflight — yet fits in the palm of a hand and could let future spacecraft make AI-powered decisions on their own when communicating with Earth can take 44 minutes round-trip.
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A NASA processor now being tested at JPL is performing 500 times faster than the radiation-hardened chips currently used in spaceflight — yet fits in the palm of a hand and could let future spacecraft make AI-powered decisions on their own when communicating with Earth can take 44 minutes round-trip.

  • August 15, 2026
A palm-sized processor undergoing tests at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has produced an early result that could reset…
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