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NASA stunned as strange solar radio burst lasts 19 days
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Scientists get their best-ever look at distant planet’s surface
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The Voyager Golden Record carries a small sample of uranium on its cover, placed there so that whoever finds it can measure the decay and work out how long it has been drifting — a built-in clock for a message engineered to last around a billion years.
Each of the two Voyager spacecraft, launched in 1977, carries a phonograph record. The records hold sounds and…
Apollo 12 was struck by lightning twice less than a minute after launch, and the mission kept going only because a flight controller recognised an obscure telemetry failure pattern and told the crew to flip a switch almost nobody else in the room understood
The core of this story holds up. On 14 November 1969, the Saturn V carrying Apollo 12 was…
The Apollo astronauts left mirrors on the Moon that scientists still bounce lasers off 57 years later, and the round-trip measurement is precise enough to track the Moon drifting away from Earth at the speed your fingernails grow
On a quiet night at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, a pulse of green laser light…