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Saudi Arabia sits on the world's largest sand desert and yet imports construction sand…

The Greenland shark grows about one centimetre per year and does not reach sexual…

In 1994, a bushwalker rappelling into a sandstone canyon 150 kilometres from Sydney…

In 1977, Carl Sagan and Frank Drake sat in a Cornell office arguing over what to put on…

The Soviet Buran shuttle flew exactly once, in November 1988, completing two unmanned…

About 46,000 objects are now tracked around Earth, and roughly 30,000 are not…

Uranus rotates almost completely on its side, tipped by 97.77 degrees, most likely by a…

NASA's whole 2026 budget was 24 billion dollars, a new poverty-economics study puts the…

For roughly a billion years of Earth’s deep past, the Moon’s ocean tides may have…

NASA has contracted a purpose-built spacecraft to push the International Space Station…
