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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.

Psychology

The neuroscience of intense romantic obsession shows that the brain in early-stage romantic love activates the same dopamine reward circuits as cocaine and gambling, with serotonin transporter levels indistinguishable from those of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder, in a finding that explains why the experience feels involuntary and typically resolves within approximately 18 months regardless of outcome

The popular framing of intense romantic obsession treats it as an emotion, something that happens within the heart, that should be cultivated when reciprocated and resisted when unwelcome.

Jun 16, 2026
Constellations

The James Webb Space Telescope may have seen the chemical fingerprint of a molecule linked to marine life on Earth in the atmosphere of K2-18b, 124 light-years away. But the signal is still tentative: it could be dimethyl sulfide, a related sulfur compound, or something else entirely, and scientists have not yet ruled out non-biological explanations.

The James Webb Space Telescope may have picked up the faint chemical signature of a molecule that, on Earth, is made almost entirely by marine life.

Jun 16, 2026
Constellations

When SpaceX filed the paperwork for the largest IPO in history in May 2026, the prospectus that retail investors could download ran past 300 pages, while the unredacted version sat in a classified vault inside the SEC’s Washington headquarters, readable by perhaps a dozen people with the right security clearances

Filing an S-1 to go public routinely runs past 300 pages of audited financials, risk factors, and material contracts. For a launch provider, every classified Pentagon and intelligence-community award becomes a redaction negotiation with the SEC before a single share can trade.

Jun 16, 2026
Earth Observation

Beneath the Antarctic ice, a lake the size of Lake Ontario has been sealed off from sunlight for roughly 15 million years, and when Russian drillers finally reached Lake Vostok in 2012 they recovered water teeming with traces of life that had evolved in total darkness.

When Russian drillers broke through nearly four kilometres of Antarctic ice in February 2012, they reached a lake the size of Lake Ontario that had been sealed in darkness for roughly 15 million years — and recovered traces of life that had been evolving down there ever since.

Jun 16, 2026
Psychology

The Stoic philosopher Seneca observed that what makes a person genuinely happy is not how much they have, but how little they need to be content — and the small jolt of his observation, two thousand years later, is that most modern definitions of the good life are still organized around acquiring more of exactly the things he warned would never quite settle the longing they were meant to satisfy

If you had to summarise Seneca's most uncomfortable observation in a single sentence, it would be this: most of what you are spending your life trying to acquire is not actually going to satisfy you when you get it.

Jun 16, 2026
Human Behaviour

A Mediterranean diet rich in vegetables, fish, and olive oil reduces dementia risk even in people carrying two copies of the APOE4 gene variant — which raises Alzheimer’s risk 12-fold — according to a 2025 Harvard study in Nature Medicine, in the first finding that a daily food pattern can partially overcome a genetic predisposition long thought to be inescapable

For people who carry two copies of the APOE4 gene, the message from clinical medicine over the past three decades has been blunt: your risk of developing…

Jun 16, 2026
Space Industry

The International Space Station orbits Earth roughly every 90 minutes, yet for years no American spacecraft could reach it — a gap a single private company stepped in to close

When the Space Shuttle retired in July 2011, the United States lost the ability to reach the very space station it had built — and for nearly nine years, American astronauts hitched rides on Russian Soyuz capsules at up to $90 million per seat. Then a private company that had failed its first three rockets quietly closed the gap.

Jun 15, 2026
Aerospace

NASA still has no American-built way to reach the International Space Station except SpaceX’s Dragon capsule — a dependency that has lasted years and shows no sign of ending soon

Since the Space Shuttle retired in 2011, NASA has rebuilt American crewed access to the International Space Station — but only through SpaceX's Crew Dragon. With Boeing's Starliner still grounded after its 2024 test flight, that single-supplier dependency has now lasted more than five years and shows no sign of ending soon.

Jun 15, 2026
Aerospace

At a 140,000-square-foot plant in Long Beach that the aerospace industry calls Space Beach, a former Raytheon executive is using agentic AI to turn out defense electronics in weeks instead of years — not to replace his engineers, but because the Pentagon wants far more hardware than the shrinking pool of engineers can build

Inside a 140,000-square-foot building in Long Beach that the local aerospace crowd calls Space Beach, circuit boards for spacecraft and defense systems are now coming off the line in a matter of weeks — the same boards that used to take years.

Jun 15, 2026