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No spacecraft has ever landed in the outer solar system — except one
The giant stone statues of Easter Island, some weighing more than 80 tonnes and…
The Wright brothers made the first powered flight in 1903 and Apollo 11 landed on the…
Everyone with ordinary inherited blue eyes appears to share a common ancestor, probably…
Every time you give a deck of cards a proper shuffle you almost certainly create an…
Apollo 12 was struck by lightning twice in the first 52 seconds of flight, filling the…
The notebooks Marie Curie used in her research remain radioactively contaminated more…
In the weightlessness of orbit, an astronaut’s heart can become more spherical as it no…
In September 1969, a 100-kilogram space rock exploded in the sky above Murchison…
The tallest volcano in the solar system is so wide that from most places on its slopes…
