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.

Space Industry

A single London to New York flight delivers roughly 37 microsieverts of cosmic radiation — about 1% of the natural dose an average person absorbs from rocks, air and ground across an entire year

A single Heathrow-to-JFK flight delivers around 37 microsieverts of cosmic radiation — roughly 1% of the annual background dose an average person absorbs from rocks, air and their own body. For pilots and cabin crew flying the same routes hundreds of times a year, the arithmetic changes sharply.

Jul 14, 2026

Science

In 1994, a park ranger abseiling into a canyon 150 kilometres northwest of Sydney found a stand of trees with knobbly bark that matched 90-million-year-old fossils, and the Wollemi pine’s exact location is still classified

In September 1994, off-duty NSW park ranger David Noble abseiled into a slot canyon 150 kilometres from Sydney and found a stand of trees that matched 90-million-year-old fossils. Fewer than 90 wild Wollemi pines remain, and the Australian government still keeps the grove's coordinates classified.

Jul 14, 2026

Science

We tend to think Voyager 1 has already left the solar system, but it has only crossed beyond the Sun’s protective plasma bubble — NASA says it will take another 300 years to reach the inner edge of the Oort Cloud, and perhaps 30,000 years to pass beyond the solar system’s outermost frontier

Voyager 1 is in interstellar space. It is also still inside the Solar System. Those statements appear contradictory only because there is no single physical line that can serve every meaning of the Solar System's edge.

Jul 14, 2026

Eclipses

In less than a month the Moon’s shadow will race across the planet and plunge parts of Greenland, Iceland and Spain into sudden darkness in the middle of the day — the first total solar eclipse visible from mainland Spain in more than a hundred years — and the exact spots where day briefly turns to night are already mapped to the second

On Wednesday, 12 August 2026, the Moon's darkest shadow will touch Earth in the high Arctic and sweep across Greenland, western Iceland and the North Atlantic before reaching the Iberian Peninsula near sunset.

Jul 14, 2026

Marsdaily

India reached Mars on its first attempt with a mission that cost less than many Hollywood films, becoming the first Asian nation to enter Martian orbit and the first country anywhere to succeed on its maiden try

At 7:17 a.m. Indian Standard Time on 24 September 2014, the Mars Orbiter Mission fired its main engine and allowed Mars to capture it.

Jul 14, 2026

Mind & Meaning

A T. rex unearthed in South Dakota could sell for up to $30 million at auction — and scientists fear that if a private collector buys it, one of Earth’s rarest records may disappear from research

The last time a Tyrannosaurus rex broke the auction record, it vanished for two years.

Jul 14, 2026

Mind & Meaning

Researchers who followed nearly 7,000 Dutch adults for nine years found that both passive and active social media use were linked to rising loneliness over time — and the relationship ran in both directions

There is a popular rule of thumb about social media: scrolling in silence is bad for you, but posting and chatting is good.

Jul 14, 2026

Constellations

Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson spent months at Bell Labs in New Jersey convinced the faint hiss in their antenna was a fault — pigeons, droppings, loose rivets, all ruled out — before a Princeton physicist told them it was the oldest light in the universe, the afterglow of the Big Bang.

In May 1964, a chart recorder at Bell Telephone Laboratories registered more microwave power from the sky than Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson could explain.

Jul 14, 2026

Human Behaviour

Vitamin B12 is synthesised only by bacteria and archaea — and the human liver stores roughly a three-year supply before deficiency shows in the blood

Vitamin B12 is built only by bacteria and archaea — no plant, animal, or fungus can make it. The human liver hoards enough to last roughly three years, which is why deficiency hides for so long before it shows.

Jul 14, 2026

Human Behaviour

The human body synthesises roughly 1 gram of creatine a day in the liver and kidneys — and stores about 95% of it inside skeletal muscle

The liver, kidneys and pancreas together produce roughly one gram of creatine every day, and about 95% of the body's total creatine sits inside skeletal muscle — a closed loop that explains why the same 5-gram scoop of white powder produces wildly different results in different people.

Jul 14, 2026

Spacemart

Space lawyers have a name for satellites claimed on paper years before a single one launches: they call them paper satellites, and the earliest filing quietly locks out everyone who comes later

The ITU's geostationary register holds thousands of satellites that never launched — filings made years in advance that quietly lock out every operator who arrives later. Tonga turned six of them into a national income stream.

Jul 14, 2026

Constellations

By mid-2026 a single company, SpaceX, had more than 10,000 Starlink satellites circling the Earth — roughly two of every three active satellites in orbit now belong to one man’s network

By mid-2026, SpaceX passed 10,000 working Starlink satellites in low Earth orbit — roughly two of every three active satellites now circling the planet — and the company has already filed to fly 100,000 more.

Jul 14, 2026

Aerospace

In space, the human heart shrinks within days as gravity’s load disappears — a small 2001 study found an average 12 percent drop in left-ventricular mass after a 10-day shuttle mission, with rebound over days to weeks on the ground

The heart is a muscle, and like any muscle, it shrinks when you ask less of it. Within days of leaving Earth, an astronaut's heart begins to lose mass —…

Jul 14, 2026

Mind & Meaning

Astronauts returning from long missions can initially struggle to stand, walk, and judge the weight of ordinary objects — because the brain must relearn a gravitational world it once treated as automatic

An astronaut does not return to Earth as someone who has forgotten gravity. The problem is quieter than that.

Jul 14, 2026

Outer Planets

Juno survives repeated dives through Jupiter’s lethal radiation belts by hiding its electronic brain inside a 180-kilogram titanium vault — because an ordinary spacecraft computer would quickly fail in the storm of high-energy particles

Juno's survival at Jupiter is not just a triumph of navigation. It is a triumph of hiding.

Jul 14, 2026

Deep Space

When Voyager 1 launched in 1977, each of its main computer systems had less than 70 kilobytes of memory — smaller than a typical phone photo — and that 1970s hardware is still carrying out commands from Earth nearly five decades later

The most distant object humans have ever built runs on computers with less memory than a typical phone photograph.

Jul 14, 2026