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Standing up to 147 feet (45 m) tall along Australia's famous Great Ocean Road in Victoria, the Twelve Apostles are one of the country's best-known natural landmarks. The towering rocks rising from the Southern Ocean attract over two million visitors each year....

Launched in 1977, NASA's Voyager 1 was expected to last just five years. Yet the spacecraft is still functioning. Traveling at about 38,000 miles (61,000 km) per hour, Voyager 1 has now covered more than 15.8 billion miles in space. If this trajectory continues, Voyager 1 will reach one light-day, or about 16 billion miles (about 26 billion km) away from Earth on November 18, 2026. A light-day is the distance light travels in one day. It will be the first human-made object to reach this milestone....

The European Space Agency (ESA) revealed on September 19, 2026, that a special Pikachu plush had spent 67 days on the International Space Station (ISS). The "astronaut" went to the ISS on a Cygnus cargo spacecraft on April 11. It returned to Earth on June 17 aboard a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft. During its time in orbit, Pikachu completed about 1,040 trips around Earth....

NASA has unveiled a $20 billion initiative to build a permanent base on the Moon. Called "Ignition," it aims to test whether humans can sustainably live beyond Earth. The plan, announced on March 24, 2026, marks a major shift from short lunar visits to a long-term human presence on the Moon....