Aerospace
May 2026
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Constellations
The Wow! Signal lasted 72 seconds in 1977, has never been detected again, and remains the most compelling unexplained candidate in the history of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Space Industry
America is preparing to land humans on the Moon while quietly proposing to terminate 53 science missions, lay off thousands of researchers, and cancel every partnership with Europe — and calling what remains a leaner, more focused program
Constellations
Voyager 1 is still transmitting from more than 24 billion kilometres away, but in 2024 NASA had to repair it by remotely moving pieces of 46-year-old code around a failed memory chip — a software patch sent into interstellar space and confirmed nearly two days later.
Human Behaviour
Why are so many of us still awake at midnight watching something we don’t even care about? Researchers call it “revenge bedtime procrastination” — a self-regulation failure driven by a need to reclaim the autonomy a demanding day took away
Human Behaviour
The international space station has had continuous human presence for over twenty-five years. The daily habits that made that possible are almost embarrassingly ordinary, which is perhaps precisely why they work
Constellations
When Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev launched to Mir in May 1991, the country that sent him was still the USSR; by the time he returned in March 1992 it no longer existed, his home city of Leningrad had become Saint Petersburg, and even the spaceport that launched him — Baikonur — was now inside newly independent Kazakhstan, forcing Russia to renegotiate access to the machinery of its own space program
Science
Complex animal life may be 10 million years older than scientists thought — and a new fossil site in northwestern Canada suggests it all started in the deep sea, not the shallow waters where most early fossils show up
Science
Scientists just reversed about 80% of aging in elderly mice in a single month — and they did it by boosting one protein
Human Behaviour
NASA astronaut Doug Wheelock said the thing he missed in orbit was the smell of grass and trees and on his return he found those ordinary aromas "intoxicating". Most of us have never stopped to notice we have them
Science
Scientists may have finally cracked why 90% of humans are right-handed — and the answer has nothing to do with our hands, it has to do with our legs
Science
T. rex didn't evolve tiny arms because its body got bigger — it evolved tiny arms because its jaws got more powerful, according to a new study of 82 meat-eating dinosaur species that found the same pattern repeating across giant predators
Science
The deepest hole humans ever drilled into Earth reached 7.6 miles beneath Soviet Russia, where unexpected heat helped defeat the drill and left the Kola Superdeep Borehole capped in rusting steel
Human Behaviour
The international space station runs on a five-day work and two-day rest schedule deliberately mirroring the rhythm of an earth working week and the reason isn't sentimental
Constellations
A joint European-Chinese satellite just went up on Vega-C, and the images it returns could change how scientists understand Earth’s magnetic shield
Constellations