Latest
Watch
Space Daily on YouTube
The eerie, first-person science of space. What the cosmos does to human bodies, minds, and the world you think you know.
Writers
Named bylines from Space Daily editors and writers. Full titles, not the house feed.
Latest from the writers
-
Aug 3, 2026
Astronomers have found a hole in the universe
-
Aug 3, 2026
Somewhere in America lives a woman who genuinely cannot feel fear
-
Aug 3, 2026
In 2022, a NASA spacecraft slammed into a distant asteroid and knocked it into a new orbit
-
Aug 3, 2026
Chinese rocket scientists have modelled the most effective way to nuke a doomsday asteroid, and it is not a blast at the surface
-
Aug 3, 2026
China has detailed a plan for its first asteroid-deflection test, a kinetic strike on a small near-Earth object meant to hit harder and…
Latest
All articles →
Science
A single Nile crocodile bite closes with roughly 3,700 pounds of force per square inch, more than any measured living animal, yet the…
A Nile crocodile's bite closes with about 3,700 PSI — the strongest bite force ever measured in a living animal — yet the muscles that open the same jaw are so weak an adult can hold them shut by hand. That asymmetry is 100 million years of evolutionary logic.
Exo Worlds
In about thirty years we have gone from knowing of no planets beyond the Sun to confirming more than 6,000, and the biggest surprise is…
The galaxy is ruled by a type of world we've never seen up close—and it's forcing us to rethink how planetary systems form.
What’s up in
Space
Industry news, exploration, and the engineering of getting humans and machines beyond Earth.
Saturn's moon Titan has an atmosphere thicker than Earth's and seas you could sail on, and it is the one place beyond Earth where a person…
Saturn's moon Titan has rivers of liquid methane longer than the Nile's tributaries, but a 2025 Brown University study found that only 1.3%…
Europa is smaller than Earth's Moon, yet the ocean locked beneath its ice contains more liquid water than every ocean on Earth combined
When the FAA proposed letting commercial rocket licenses bypass specified requirements under 13 federal laws, it paired a 1984 waiver power…
What’s up in
Mind & Meaning
The psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes — and what frontier life teaches us about being human.
Chinese rocket scientists have modelled the most effective way to nuke a doomsday asteroid, and it is not a blast at the surface
China has detailed a plan for its first asteroid-deflection test, a kinetic strike on a small near-Earth object meant to hit harder and…
Pluto was expected to be a frozen, cratered relic, but when New Horizons flew past in 2015 it found flowing nitrogen glaciers, mountains of…
Mars was once covered in rivers and lakes, and the mystery of where all that water went now has two answers
What’s up in
Science
Physics, climate, planetary science, and the research that shapes how we understand the universe.
A single Nile crocodile bite closes with roughly 3,700 pounds of force per square inch, more than any measured living animal, yet the…
We have sharper maps of Mars than of most of Earth's deep ocean floor, and the little of it we have reached rewrote biology
Travelling at the speed of light is not just hard but impossible for anything that has mass, since it would take infinite energy, so the…
A 2021 estimate suggested that about 2.5 billion Tyrannosaurus rex lived, while only 32 relatively well-preserved post-juvenile specimens…
About Space Daily
Space, science, and the human side of the frontier. Since 1995.
Space Daily is an independent publication covering three connected beats: the space industry, the science behind it, and the psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes. Founded in Tokyo in 1995, we’ve built a thirty-year archive of rigorous reporting on the people, missions, and ideas pushing humanity outward — and on the human dynamics shaped by frontier life. The same ambitions, pressures, and patterns of mind that drive humanity to the stars also shape how we live on Earth. We employ modern AI technologies to support our editorial workflows; every published piece is editorially directed and reviewed.
More about us →