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The conventional wisdom about the Voyager program is that it represents a triumphant past: two spacecraft launched in 1977, a grand tour of the outer planets, a golden record, and

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ESA’s Proba-3 mission has reportedly delivered its first scientific results, and the data has caught solar physicists off guard. The twin-satellite formation, designed to create artificial solar eclipses in orbit, measured solar wind speeds in the sun’s inner corona that were significantly faster than models predicted. The finding, announced by ESA, marks the first scientific […]

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Since July 2025, the European Space Agency’s pair of Proba-3 satellites has already created 57 artificial solar eclipses. So far, the mission has collected more than 250 hours of high-resolution videos of the Sun’s atmosphere, called the corona. That’s the same amount of observing time as about 5000 total solar eclipse campaigns carried out on Earth.  

But the science is even more exciting. For the first time we can carefully track how material from the Sun moves through the inner corona, where space weather is born. The first results, recently published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, show that solar wind structures in the inner corona can travel three to four times faster than scientists thought. 

On April 13, 2026, President Donald Trump launched a blistering public attack on Pope Leo XIV, accusing the pontiff of meddling in geopolitics and being “terrible for foreign policy” after the Pope condemned U.S. military threats and called for a return to negotiations over the escalating conflict in the Middle East. The clash between the […]

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When a compliment contradicts the internal narrative someone built their identity around, the praise doesn't feel undeserved — it feels threatening. Understanding why requires looking at self-concept inertia, fixed mindsets, and the survival stories we mistake for permanent truth.

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In the world of planetary science, a decade-long mission is considered ambitious. JAXA, Japan’s space agency, is now weighing something far more audacious: a sample return mission that wouldn’t deliver its cargo until the late 2040s, more than 22 years from the earliest planning stages. The proposed Next Generation Small-Body Return (NGSR) mission to comet […]

The post JAXA’s 22-Year Bet on Frozen Comet Samples: What a Multi-Decade Mission Timeline Means for Planetary Science Funding appeared first on Space Daily.

COLORADO SPRINGS – Sophia Space will begin deploying edge compute nodes on Kepler Communications satellites in late 2026, under a strategic pact announced April 13.

The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered the strongest observational evidence ever obtained for Population III stars — the theorized first generation of stars that lit up a dark universe in the early cosmos. The findings, built on independent confirmations from multiple research teams, center on a tiny companion object near one of the most […]

The post JWST May Have Finally Found the Universe’s First Stars — And the Evidence Is Stronger Than Anything Before appeared first on Space Daily.

A Nigerian military airstrike reportedly struck a crowded village market in Jilli, Yobe State, with reports suggesting more than 100 civilians were killed and dozens more wounded, according to Amnesty International and local officials. The strike, which reportedly occurred on Saturday near the border between Yobe and Borno states in Nigeria’s northeast, has drawn sharp […]

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The collapse of US-Iran talks in Islamabad isn’t primarily a story about failed diplomacy. It’s a story about what happens when the world’s most critical energy chokepoint becomes a bargaining chip that neither side can afford to give up—and both sides are willing to destroy. The negotiation failure has locked the Strait of Hormuz into […]

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