Editorial Team

Space Daily Editorial Team

Editorial Team

The Space Daily Editorial Team produces content across our two editorial pillars: space industry news and Mind & Meaning. We cover launches, missions, satellites, defense, and the technology of getting humans to space, alongside the psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Space Daily takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

Psychology

Psychopathy may be two different things, not one: in 115 ordinary adults, one type’s attention locked hard onto the images that unsettle most people, while the other barely flinched at them

A study at Erasmus University Rotterdam measured what people's brains and eyes actually did in front of disturbing pictures, and found the two darker sides of the psychopathic personality behaving in opposite ways. The fearless trait went with attention that seized on the images, at least in the men tested; the cold trait went with a blunted flinch and muted feeling. The volunteers were healthy young adults, not diagnosed psychopaths, and the effects were modest, so the finding is a lead to follow, not a verdict.

Jul 28, 2026

Mind & Meaning

Norway struck oil in 1969 and did the opposite of what most countries do with sudden money. It settled who controlled the resource before the revenue arrived in volume, and the fund it built now owns a piece of nearly every major company on earth, about 3.78 million kroner per resident on paper

When Norway discovered vast oil reserves, it resisted the curse that has impoverished resource-rich nations elsewhere—by building a sovereign wealth fund that became the world's largest, a cautionary tale inverted.

Jul 27, 2026

Science

A spider in the Himalayas wears the same red smiling face as Hawaii’s famous happy-face spider — and its DNA marks it as a new species, not the Hawaiian one long thought to wear that grin alone

Researchers in Uttarakhand described a new spider, Theridion himalayana, carrying the red-and-black smile that made Hawaii's happy-face spider famous. A gene barcode sets it about 8.5 percent apart from the Hawaiian species, enough to call it its own lineage. Whether the two arrived at the same face by chance or inherited it from a shared ancestor is the question the discovery leaves open.

Jul 27, 2026

Mind & Meaning

For decades a single whale has called at a frequency no other whale answers, and no one can say whether it is truly alone or simply speaking a language the rest of the ocean cannot hear

Scientists have tracked a whale's solitary call for decades, but loneliness may be the wrong story—and the ocean's depths may hide truths we're simply not equipped to hear.

Jul 27, 2026

Mind & Meaning

In July 1946, prices in Hungary doubled about every fifteen hours — a man paid in the morning had to spend his wages fast or watch some forty per cent of their value vanish by dinner, so the national bank ended up issuing the highest-denomination banknote ever put into general circulation, with a face value of 100 quintillion pengő

When prices double every fifteen hours, a morning's wages become pocket change by dinner—forcing a desperate nation to print the largest banknote ever circulated.

Jul 26, 2026

Science

Did a Sun-like star quietly swallow one of its own planets, leaving behind a spike of lithium it should have lost long ago?

An aging star has far more lithium than it should. Astronomers say the likeliest reason is that TOI-5882 swallowed one of its own planets, though they call it a candidate, not a verdict.

Jul 26, 2026

Science

Four dead stars have been confirmed within 65 light-years of Earth, hidden for decades in the glare of the brighter red dwarfs they orbit

Astronomers used Hubble's ultraviolet vision to directly confirm four white dwarfs lost in the glare of nearby red dwarfs, one of them the ninth closest to the Sun.

Jul 25, 2026

Science

At the start of winter, the wood frog of North America stops breathing, lets ice form in the spaces between its cells, and its heart stops entirely for up to seven months — then in spring it thaws, its heart restarts, and it hops away as if nothing happened

A vertebrate that freezes solid each winter and wakes without brain damage or organ failure is forcing scientists to reconsider the limits of what a living thing can endure.

Jul 24, 2026

Mind & Meaning

By Al Pacino’s own account, in the spring of 1971 Paramount executives tried three separate times to fire him from The Godfather during shooting, until Francis Ford Coppola shot the restaurant scene where Michael becomes a killer, and the studio saw what his restrained performance had been building toward

A studio desperate to replace him saw only weakness in Pacino's early takes—until one scene revealed the explosive restraint that would define cinema.

Jul 24, 2026

Deep Space

Somewhere in the Milky Way tonight, drifting through the darkness between the stars, there are roughly 20 planets for every sun that burns — trillions of worlds, most thought to be ejected from the solar systems where they were born and now wandering the galaxy, according to a nine-year microlensing survey

The galaxy harbors trillions of orphaned worlds, cast out from their birth systems and now drifting alone through the void.

Jul 24, 2026

Human Behaviour

Dermatologists have long documented that the expressions worn most often across a lifetime eventually stop leaving the face and start staying — thousands of repetitions of the same smile, frown, or squint pulling the same muscles until the skin above them slowly loses the ability to return to neutral

Your face is literally memorizing your expressions, one repetition at a time.

Jul 24, 2026

Space Scopes

In June 2025, on a Chilean mountaintop, scientists switched on the largest digital camera ever built — named for the astronomer who found the first convincing evidence for dark matter — at the start of a project whose decade-long survey may finally find a ninth planet hidden in the outer darkness of our solar system

A decade-long hunt for the solar system's missing tenth planet begins with the most powerful digital eye ever aimed at the sky.

Jul 24, 2026

Deep Space

Somewhere in the dried bed of an ancient Martian river, the Perseverance rover has been drilling into rocks for more than four years — and last June, NASA scientists announced that two of them contain the same complex carbon-based molecules that form the building blocks of life on Earth

The Perseverance rover has found carbon molecules in Martian rocks that mirror the chemistry underlying all known life—raising urgent questions about what conditions created them.

Jul 24, 2026

Mind & Meaning

When Singapore became independent in 1965 it had no natural resources, no hinterland, and fewer than 2 million people. Sixty years later its GDP per capita is higher than that of the United States, the United Kingdom, or Australia

A city-state with nothing but ambition built the world's most unlikely economic miracle.

Jul 24, 2026

Mind & Meaning

Ireland spent most of the 20th century watching its young people leave for work in London and Boston — and 40 years later, their descendants started coming home to work at the European operations of Apple, Google, and Pfizer, in a country whose GDP per capita now ranks higher than Germany’s

A country that once hemorrhaged talent to the world is now pulling it back—and has become one of Europe's richest economies in the process.

Jul 24, 2026

Mind & Meaning

Saudi Arabia knows the day is coming when the world stops needing oil — and its Public Investment Fund is a bet placed by one generation on behalf of the next, spending the last decades of oil revenue on hotels, football leagues, and entire cities in the empty desert, so the grandchildren of today’s leaders inherit a country worth having

A nation betting its post-oil future on megaprojects and foreign investment is discovering that transforming an economy faster than global markets demand is harder than the spreadsheets suggest.

Jul 24, 2026