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.

Cosmology

On a September night in 1999, a 25-year-old graduate student stepped into a modest wooden shed in a Colorado parking lot and used a tiny four-inch telescope to spot a 1% dip in a star’s light—a backyard experiment that proved alien planets could be tracked by their shadows and opened the floodgates to discovering thousands of worlds

On the evening of September 9, 1999, a Harvard graduate student named David Charbonneau drove to a parking lot in Boulder, Colorado, and let himself into a small wooden shed.

Jun 15, 2026

Constellations

Apollo astronauts trying to sleep on the way to the Moon kept seeing flashes and streaks in the dark, and the cause turned out to be cosmic rays from deep space passing straight through their eyes.

Apollo astronauts trying to rest on the way to the Moon kept noticing the same thing in the dark.

Jun 14, 2026

Human Behaviour

A bankruptcy can be ‘annulled’ rather than discharged in Australia — legally erased as if it never existed — and a $540 million debtor pulled it off in 2018

Australia's Bankruptcy Act 1966 contains a little-known provision that lets a bankruptcy be retroactively erased — not just ended — and high-profile debtors have used it to walk away from liabilities reported in the hundreds of millions.

Jun 14, 2026

Water Worlds

A 49-foot bowhead whale killed by Iñupiat hunters in May 2007 was found to have been carrying a Victorian-era harpoon in its shoulder for approximately 120 years, evidence that the whale was at least 115 years old at the time of its death, because bowhead whales are the longest-lived mammals on Earth, with peer-reviewed lifespan estimates exceeding 200 years

The discovery happened in the routine course of an Iñupiat subsistence hunt off the coast near Utqiaġvik, the northernmost settlement in Alaska.

Jun 14, 2026

Human Behaviour

The crypto con called ‘pig butchering’ gets its chilling name from livestock — scammers spend months ‘fattening’ victims with daily good-morning texts before the slaughter

The Chinese phrase sha zhu pan — pig butchering — was coined by the scammers themselves, who refer to victims as pigs and the months of daily good-morning texts as fattening before the final crypto cash-out.

Jun 14, 2026

Psychology

Carl Jung observed that the things we cannot stand in other people — the small irritations that seem disproportionate, the people we find ourselves unable to forgive — are almost always reflections of the parts of ourselves we have not yet acknowledged, in a quiet psychological pattern he called the shadow, and the surprise is that doing the work of meeting it tends to soften nearly every difficult relationship a person carries

Think for a moment about the person in your life whose presence costs you the most energy.

Jun 14, 2026

Constellations

The Apollo astronauts who carried lunar dust back into the cabin kept making the same strange report — fresh Moon dust smelled like spent gunpowder — yet the smell never survived the trip home, and more than fifty years later no one has fully explained what they were breathing in up there.

The Apollo astronauts who tracked Moon dust back into their cabin kept filing the same odd report.

Jun 14, 2026

Human Behaviour

Athletes who go plant-based consistently report the same first change before any strength gain — they can train hard again the next day, and the next, and the cumulative effect over months is enormous

Plant-based athletes from Scott Jurek to Patrik Baboumian consistently describe the same first change: not raw strength, but the ability to train hard on back-to-back days. The recovery-window shift shows up in inflammation markers within weeks and compounds across a season.

Jun 14, 2026

Human Behaviour

Venus Williams was diagnosed with Sjögren’s syndrome, an autoimmune disease so exhausting she could barely get out of bed — then her sister suggested the dietary change that kept her on tour a decade longer

When Venus Williams was diagnosed with Sjögren's syndrome in 2011, the autoimmune fatigue was so severe she could barely leave bed. Her sister Serena suggested a dietary change that kept her competing on the WTA tour for more than a decade longer.

Jun 14, 2026

Science

Scientists drilling into sediment beneath the South Pacific Gyre pulled up microbes from seabed layers as old as 101.5 million years. Starved in one of the poorest habitats on Earth, many of the cells were still viable: when given nutrients under oxygen-bearing laboratory conditions, they repaired their metabolism, took up carbon and nitrogen, and began to multiply. They are among the oldest microbial communities ever revived from dormancy.

In 2020, scientists reported that they had drilled into sediment beneath the South Pacific Gyre and recovered microbes from layers as old as 101.5 million years.

Jun 14, 2026

Science

In 2019, BaFin banned short-selling in Wirecard shares for two months and filed criminal complaints against the Financial Times reporters investigating its accounts, the first time Germany’s market regulator had shielded one listed company that way

In February 2019, Germany's financial regulator BaFin banned short-selling of Wirecard shares for two months and filed criminal complaints against the Financial Times reporters investigating the company — the first single-firm short ban in the agency's history. Sixteen months later €1.9 billion was missing, the reporters were vindicated, and the COO had fled to Moscow.

Jun 14, 2026

Human Behaviour

Rolex is owned by no billionaire or family — a single Geneva charitable foundation has held it since founder Hans Wilsdorf died childless in 1960, making the company effectively impossible to buy

When Rolex founder Hans Wilsdorf died childless in 1960, ownership of the world's most valuable watch company passed entirely to a private Geneva charitable foundation he had created in 1945. Swiss foundation law means the company has no shareholders, no heirs, and effectively cannot be sold.

Jun 14, 2026

Human Behaviour

Until 1905, wristwatches were considered women’s jewelry — a gentleman who wore a timepiece on his wrist was a punchline, a prejudice one orphaned watch clerk decided to bet against

In 1905, a 24-year-old orphaned watch clerk named Hans Wilsdorf opened a London firm and bet his business on a product Edwardian gentlemen openly mocked: a watch worn on the wrist. Within a generation, his company — Rolex — had inverted the gendered grammar of how men told time.

Jun 14, 2026

Science

Beneath Oregon’s Blue Mountains, a single honey fungus has been spreading through the roots of the forest for thousands of years, now covering nearly 10 square kilometres. Mostly hidden underground and betrayed at the surface by dying trees and seasonal mushrooms, it is one of the strongest contenders for the largest living organism on Earth.

Beneath the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon, in the Malheur National Forest, a single honey fungus has been spreading through the roots of the forest for thousands of years.

Jun 14, 2026

Black Holes

In 2022 the Event Horizon Telescope revealed the first image of the monster at our galaxy’s center, Sagittarius A* — a black hole 4 million times the Sun’s mass, sitting quietly 27,000 light-years away the whole time

On 12 May 2022 the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration unveiled the first image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way.

Jun 14, 2026

Constellations

In 2017, the first confirmed visitor from another star system tumbled through the solar system on a path that should have been simple to read, then accelerated slightly as it left without showing the coma or tail of an active comet — a gap that let Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb argue it might be alien technology, a claim most astronomers reject but one that has never quite gone away.

In October 2017, astronomers using the Pan-STARRS survey telescope in Hawaii detected a small object moving through the inner solar system on a hyperbolic path, too fast for the Sun to hold.

Jun 14, 2026