Moon Daily
June 2026
Every article published in June 2026. 837 articles · Back to full archive
Banking
Model Miranda Kerr returned roughly $8 million in jewelry — including a heart-shaped pink diamond — to U.S. investigators tracing gifts allegedly bought with stolen 1MDB cash
Aerospace
A commercial robot will try to catch NASA's sinking Swift telescope this month — a first for a satellite never built to be serviced
Science
Bowhead whales can live past 200 years, and biologists studying their DNA have found unique gene variants for repairing damage that may explain why they almost never develop the cancers that kill most other large mammals before 80.
Science
In 2002 astronomers averaged the light of 200,000 galaxies and announced the universe was pale turquoise — then traced the color to a software error and corrected it to a beige they nicknamed cosmic latte
Human Behaviour
Artemis II astronaut Reid Wiseman on spacewalking: "I used to think I was scared of heights — now I know I was just scared of gravity"
Science
In summer 2025, a roughly 4.56-billion-year-old meteorite crashed through the roof of a home in McDonough, Georgia — and analysis by researchers at the University of Georgia determined the rock is approximately 20 million years older than Earth itself, meaning the homeowner spent that night sleeping in a house that had just been physically struck by a piece of the solar system older than the planet she was standing on
Human Behaviour
We keep asking whether humans can survive on Mars and skipping the more important question of whether we should go at all
Internet Space
In ground tests this year, Boeing engineers got two separately created pairs of entangled photons to hand their entanglement to two photons that had never met, all on a 15-kilogram payload, and the open question now is whether that fragile trick survives the handful of watts and violent thermal swings of orbit
Science
A spacecraft travelling at Parker Solar Probe’s peak speed would reach the Moon in about 35 minutes — a trip that took Apollo 11 roughly three days
Psychology
One of the biggest factors in whether a stranger finds you attractive may not be your face, your body, or your clothing — research suggests it is whether you appear to be enjoying yourself in the moment they first see you, with a smile substantially modifying how attractive you appear in the brief seconds when first impressions form
Human Behaviour
The face you see in the mirror every morning is not the face other people see — when researchers show people two photos of themselves, most prefer the mirror-flipped version, while their friends and partners shown the same pair consistently pick the unflipped one, meaning the face you have grown to recognize as your own is essentially the reverse of the one the world has been seeing all along
Government
In March 2025, an Old Bailey jury convicted six Bulgarians of running a Russian surveillance ring out of a Norfolk guesthouse on instructions relayed through an encrypted channel that traced back to a fugitive Austrian executive in Moscow.
Mind & Meaning
Czech speleologists exploring a cave system in southern Albania in 2021 discovered the largest underground thermal lake ever found on Earth — a 138-metre-long body of warm water sitting 127 metres beneath the surface at the bottom of a 100-metre vertical abyss — large enough to fill more than three Olympic swimming pools, in complete darkness, that no human being had ever seen before
Human Behaviour
A brain-computer interface has, for the first time, restored fluent everyday speech to a person who had lost it — a man with ALS who had not spoken aloud in years until a small implant from the BrainGate clinical trial began translating his attempts to speak directly into computer-synthesised words, in a result researchers reported in June 2026
Mind & Meaning