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In 1959, the Soviet Luna 3 probe swung around the far side of the Moon and took 29 grainy photographs of a hemisphere humans had never seen, then developed the film onboard and scanned the negatives with a flying-spot beam to radio them back across - Space Daily
In October 1959, the Soviet Luna 3 probe took the first photographs of the Moon’s far side, developed the film in a tiny onboard darkroom, and scanned the prints to radio them back to Earth — a chain of engineering improbabilities that redrew the map of the s…
The International Space Station circles the planet so fast that the crew watch the sun rise and set sixteen times in a single day, a new dawn roughly every ninety minutes - Space Daily
The International Space Station travels fast enough that its crew pass through sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets in the course of a single day. At an altitude of roughly 400 kilometres it moves at about 28,000 kilometres an hour, which works out to one ful…
NASA interested in Hubble reboost if costs can be reduced - SpaceNews
As NASA prepares an attempt to reboost an astronomy spacecraft in a decaying orbit, the agency is open to doing something similar for Hubble.
There are millions of objects in our own solar system that have never been seen and the facility that will find them is now just months from starting its decade-long survey - Space Daily
Somewhere on the ridge of Cerro Pachón in northern Chile, a telescope with an 8.4-metre mirror is in the final stages of preparation for the most comprehensive survey of the solar system ever attempted. The NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory completed its cons…
Largest scorpion ever grew to over three-feet long and had six-inch pinchers, according to nightmare-inducing study - New York Post
It’s the scorpion king.
Chemists have demonstrated for the first time how RNA may have copied itself on early Earth — solving a bottleneck that had blocked the origin-of-life field for decades - Space Daily
A paper published in Nature Chemistry in May 2025 describes what its authors call the first demonstration of exponential RNA replication by a polymerase ribozyme under conditions that could plausibly have occurred on the early Earth. The work comes from Dr Ja…