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Who wants to go to the moon? Europe names astronaut candidates

Paris (AFP) Sept 21, 2022 - The European Space Agency announced a team of seven astronauts on Wednesday to train for NASA's Artemis mission to the moon - but only one will have the chance to become the first European to walk on the lunar surface.

By Space Mart Editorial Team · Jun 25, 2026

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In 1859, a solar storm now called the Carrington Event induced currents so strong in North American telegraph lines that operators disconnected their batteries and kept sending messages on the geomagnetic current alone, while auroras were reported as far south as Cuba

In September 1859, the largest geomagnetic storm on record induced currents so strong in North American telegraph lines that operators pulled their batteries and kept transmitting on solar-driven current alone, while red auroras were reported as far south as Havana.

By Space Mart Editorial Team · Jul 31, 2026
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How did a conifer thought extinct for two million years turn up alive in 1994 within 200 kilometres of a city of 3.7 million people?

In 1994 a parks officer abseiled into a sandstone canyon northwest of Sydney and found a stand of conifers matching a 90-million-year-old fossil pollen record. The Wollemi pine, down to fewer than 100 adults, has been protected by classified coordinates, helicopter access and a 2019 firefighting operation that saved every mature tree.

By Space Mart Editorial Team · Jul 30, 2026
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Why did a Bay of Bengal delta nation, after a 1991 cyclone killed some 138,000 people, plant hundreds of kilometres of salt-tolerant coastal forest instead of building higher sea walls?

After the 1991 Bay of Bengal cyclone killed roughly 138,000 people in a single night, Bangladesh chose to plant hundreds of kilometres of salt-tolerant mangrove forest along its delta coast. The reasoning was physical, ecological and economic — and satellite imagery now shows the result.

By Space Mart Editorial Team · Jul 30, 2026
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The Parker Solar Probe now passes within 6.1 million kilometres of the Sun's surface at 692,000 kilometres per hour, fast enough to cross the continental United States in about 20 seconds, shielded by a carbon-composite heat shield only 11.4 centimetres thick

NASA's Parker Solar Probe now skims to within 6.1 million kilometres of the Sun at 692,000 km/h — fast enough to cross the United States in 20 seconds — protected by a carbon-composite heat shield just 11.4 centimetres thick.

By Space Mart Editorial Team · Jul 29, 2026

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