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What astronauts actually eat for six months in space " and why almost none of it would survive a single meal in your kitchen without engineering, weight calculations, and a tortilla
57+ min ago (230+ words) The standard cultural image of astronaut food has not, on the available evidence, updated meaningfully since the 1980s. By Space Daily Editorial Team " Editorial process Published May 18, 2026 The tortilla number is, on close examination, the most interesting datum in the list,…...
The four astronauts who flew farther from Earth than any humans in history have just come back. The advice they're giving the rest of us has almost nothing to do with space.
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The Pioneer 10 and 11 probes carry gold plaques designed by Carl Sagan in three weeks, and the diagram of the naked woman is missing a single anatomical line that earlier sketches included, quietly erased by Sagan himself because he was sure NASA would reject anything more explicit
3+ hour, 5+ min ago (665+ words) Carl Sagan, Frank Drake, and Linda Salzman Sagan designed the gold plaques bolted to Pioneer 10 and 11 in about three weeks before launch. The figures they engraved are still moving outward, billions of miles from the Sun....
Voyager 1's signal now takes more than 23 hours to reach Earth, and by the time NASA receives the next status check the spacecraft will already be 1. 5 million kilometres further into interstellar space
2+ hour, 55+ min ago (489+ words) By Space Daily Editorial Team " Editorial process Published May 18, 2026 By the time NASA receives Voyager 1s next status check, the spacecraft has already moved more than 1. 4 million kilometres further into interstellar space. NASAs Voyager 1 spacecraft is now far enough from Earth…...
Bristlecone pines in the White Mountains of California have been alive for more than 4, 800 years " meaning the oldest ones were already centuries old when the pyramids were being built, and almost none of them grow more than thirty feet tall
4+ hour, 6+ min ago (444+ words) Methuselah, a Great Basin bristlecone pine in the White Mountains of eastern California, has been alive somewhere between roughly 4, 668 and 4, 857 years. By Space Daily Editorial Team " Editorial process Published May 18, 2026 The tree stands at about 3, 000 metres elevation in the Ancient…...
Antarctic ice cores suggest Earth is still being dusted by an ancient supernova, and the trail points to the cloud the solar system is moving through
3+ hour, 54+ min ago (898+ words) Earth appears to be collecting radioactive stardust from a stellar explosion that happened millions of years ago, and part of the evidence has been frozen in Antarctic ice for tens of thousands of years. By Space Daily Editorial Team " Editorial…...
The Galileo spacecraft was deliberately crashed into Jupiter in 2003 because mission planners feared a drifting probe could contaminate Europa's hidden ocean, forcing engineers to destroy the machine that revealed why Europa had to be protected
3+ hour, 52+ min ago (1537+ words) On September 21, 2003, NASA's Galileo spacecraft hit Jupiter's atmosphere at nearly 108, 000 miles per hour. By Space Daily Editorial Team " Editorial process Published May 18, 2026 That mattered because Galileo had changed Europa from a bright icy moon into one of the most scientifically…...
The average wedding ring contains gold that is older than the Earth itself " every gold atom on the planet was forged in a neutron star collision before the solar system existed, and there is no other way to make it
7+ hour, 7+ min ago (288+ words) Every gold atom on Earth, including the one wrapped around your finger, was forged in a cosmic collision so violent it briefly outshone entire galaxies " and there is no other process in the universe that can make it....
People who say they don't remember the last time they felt genuine joy may not be dramatic " they may have spent so long performing contentment that they forgot what the real thing feels like
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Bubble wrap was originally invented in 1957 as textured wallpaper, failed completely, was relaunched as greenhouse insulation, failed again, and only became a packaging material when IBM needed to ship a new computer three years later
7+ hour, 9+ min ago (25+ words) The bubble wrap on your desk was supposed to be wallpaper, then a greenhouse liner, before a desperate IBM shipping problem rescued it from oblivion....