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In early 2026, NASA’s “Big Bang” reconfiguration freed nearly 10 watts aboard Voyager 2 by switching several powered systems to lower-energy alternatives simultaneously, buying its three remaining science instruments at least another year without generating a single additional watt.
5+ hour, 18+ min ago (815+ words) Voyager 2’s 2026 Big Bang power swap cut demand by nearly 10 watts, preserving its magnetometer, plasma wave and cosmic ray instruments for at least another year. By The Long View · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 13, 2026 · How we edit Voyager 2 cannot…...
In 1971, the Soviet Union’s Mars 3 became the first spacecraft to soft-land successfully on Mars—but it transmitted for just 14.5 seconds before falling silent, giving it the shortest successful surface mission in Martian history.
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (897+ words) Mars 3 achieved the first soft landing on Mars, then lost contact within seconds. The surviving records distinguish a successful arrival from a surface investigation that never developed. By The Long View · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 8, 2026 · How we edit…...
NASA's Roman telescope launches on Sunday August 30 with the same size mirror as Hubble, but it takes in roughly 100 times more sky at once — and it is arriving eight months ahead of its committed date
2+ week, 4+ day ago (622+ words) Published August 26, 2026 · How we edit Roman is set to lift off at 7:26 a.m. EDT on Sunday, August 30, 2026, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Kennedy Space Center. The point of Roman is not to see fainter or farther than Hubble....
Only one antenna on Earth can still send commands to Voyager 2 — a 70-metre dish outside Canberra — and when it went offline for eleven months in 2020, the probe flew on unable to be told anything
2+ week, 5+ day ago (303+ words) A probe built in the 1970s became temporarily unreachable because Earth had no redundancy—and no one noticed until it was too late. By The Long View · Edited by Mal James Published August 24, 2026 · How we edit What strikes us is how…...
Sixteen mummified people and a mummified canid accumulated in a single Egyptian side chamber just over five metres long over at least three centuries, and the coffins that structured the earliest burials had stopped appearing entirely by the last ones
2+ week, 6+ day ago (890+ words) A new archaeothanatological study of Side Chamber 3 in Theban Tomb 209 finds at least six of its nine funerary deposits vertically superimposed, and argues the chamber itself took over the organising job the coffins used to do. By The Long View…...
Astronomers have confirmed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of GJ 887 — just 10.7 light-years away — making it the second-closest known habitable-zone planet after Proxima Centauri b, and one of the closest targets we could ever hope to characterise.
3+ week, 2+ day ago (566+ words) For the first time, we have a potentially habitable world close enough to actually study—and at just 10.7 light-years away, it's nearly within reach of our most ambitious telescopes. By Lab Report · Edited by Mal James Published August 21, 2026 · How we…...
Titan is the only world beyond Earth where you could step outside without a pressure suit??? the air is thick enough to keep your body intact??? but the surface sits at minus 179 degrees Celsius, where methane and ethane fall as rain
3+ week, 4+ day ago (1379+ words) Titan’s 1.5-bar atmosphere would prevent vacuum exposure, but an explorer would still need oxygen, active heating and a sealed suit against its cryogenic methane weather. By The Long View · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 19, 2026 · How we edit A human…...
A sheet of paper is about a tenth of a millimetre thick, but doubling it only twenty-seven times builds a stack taller than Mount Everest — fifteen more folds carry it past the Moon
3+ week, 5+ day ago (712+ words) By Science Blog Editorial Team Published August 18, 2026 · How we edit Picture a single sheet of copy paper. Fold it in half, then in half again, and keep going, twenty-seven times. How tall do you think it gets? Most people reach…...
For decades, scientists believed Titan hid a vast global ocean beneath its frozen crust; a December 2025 reanalysis of Cassini data now suggests something stranger — layers of slush and isolated pockets of warm water near a rocky core
3+ week, 6+ day ago (1402+ words) A newly measured tidal delay in Cassini's radio data favors warm, dissipative high-pressure ice and scattered melt pockets over Titan's long-assumed global ocean. By The Long View · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 16, 2026 · How we edit Titan’s buried ocean was…...
In December 2025, startup Starcloud trained the first large language model ever trained in orbit, using an NVIDIA H100 — the same class of GPU built for Earth's AI data centres, now running roughly 500 kilometres above the planet.
4+ week, 47+ min ago (794+ words) Starcloud-1 used a data-centre-class NVIDIA H100 to train NanoGPT on Shakespeare in orbit, a small but genuine demonstration distinct from its preloaded Gemma inference run. By Lab Report · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 16, 2026 · How we edit On 10 December 2025, engineers at…...