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Space Daily Editorial Team
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.

Science

In 1908, something exploded above the remote Siberian forest of Tunguska with enough force to flatten roughly 2,000 square kilometres of trees — and more than a century later, no impact crater has ever been found, because the object, probably a small asteroid, appears to have blown itself apart in the atmosphere.

The 1908 Tunguska event flattened ~2,000 sq km of Siberian forest and left no crater. The reason is an airburst: a stony asteroid that disintegrated several kilometres up. What the evidence shows, what is still argued, and why a century-old blast still drives planetary defence.

Jun 20, 2026
Banking

Najib Razak, the Malaysian prime minister who chaired 1MDB, was jailed over the looting of the state fund — and the roughly $681 million that landed in his personal bank account became the evidentiary spine of a global financial scandal

Najib Razak, the Malaysian prime minister who chaired 1MDB, is serving 12 years in Kajang Prison after investigators traced roughly $681 million from the state fund into his personal AmBank accounts — part of a $4.5 billion global kleptocracy case.

Jun 19, 2026
Moon Daily

NASA studied the entire lunar South Pole and narrowed humanity’s landing options to just nine candidate regions — on a body the size of a continent, the ground everyone wants is barely a few neighborhoods

NASA's Artemis site selection process surveyed the entire lunar South Pole and identified just nine candidate landing regions, each about 15 kilometers across — a sliver of ground smaller than greater Los Angeles on a body the size of Africa and Australia combined.

Jun 19, 2026
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

The fireball was visible in broad daylight. Roughly 200 witnesses across Georgia and South Carolina saw it streak across the sky that afternoon, bright enough…

Jun 19, 2026
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.

In March 2025, an Old Bailey jury convicted six Bulgarians of running one of the largest foreign intelligence operations ever prosecuted in Britain — a surveillance ring operating from a Norfolk guesthouse, taking instructions from a fugitive Austrian executive believed to be hiding in Moscow.

Jun 19, 2026
Space Industry

The 1967 Outer Space Treaty declares the moon ‘the province of all mankind’ and bans any nation from owning it — yet it created no court, no police and no referee anywhere off Earth to enforce the rule

Signed in 1967 by the United States, Soviet Union and United Kingdom, the Outer Space Treaty bans any nation from owning the Moon — but created no court, police force or referee to enforce the rule. Six decades later, that gap is the central problem in space law.

Jun 19, 2026
Moon Daily

The American flags planted by Apollo astronauts have likely bleached pure white after 50 years of unfiltered solar radiation, leaving the most famous banners in history standing as blank cloth

Six American flags were planted on the Moon between 1969 and 1972. Five are still standing — but after more than five decades of unfiltered solar UV, proton bombardment, and 600 thermal cycles between 120°C and minus 170°C, the dyes have almost certainly broken down, leaving the most famous banners in history as bleached white cloth.

Jun 19, 2026