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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

Nearly three kilometres beneath a Canadian mine, geologists found water that may have been isolated in the rock for roughly two billion years — older than animals, plants and almost everything we think of as complex life. The brine was so salty and bitter that, when one researcher tasted it, she was sampling a flavour shaped by a world humans never knew

Nearly three kilometres below the surface, in a mine in northern Ontario, geologists found water that had been isolated in the rock for roughly two billion years.

Jun 14, 2026
Human Behaviour

The grandparents of Okinawa, Japan, are among the longest-lived humans on Earth. Their grandchildren are dying younger than the rest of Japan. Within a single generation, one of the world’s most famous longevity populations has collapsed, in a peer-reviewed finding that has overturned decades of assumptions about the secret to a long life

The collapse is one of the most carefully documented demographic events in modern science, because Japan keeps detailed life-expectancy statistics for each of…

Jun 13, 2026
Mind & Meaning

A small wave breaking on a beach contains more living organisms than the total number of humans who have ever existed on Earth — roughly 10 million bacteria, viruses, and tiny plankton in every milliliter of seawater — meaning every wave that touches the shore carries a population of life that vastly outnumbers every person who has ever lived in the entire history of our species

Stand at the edge of the ocean for a few seconds. A wave comes in. It curls, it crashes, it pushes a sheet of water across the sand and then retreats.

Jun 13, 2026
Mind & Meaning

There is no scientific basis for the seven-day week — unlike days, months, and years, which are tied to the Earth’s rotation, the moon’s cycle, and the Earth’s orbit around the Sun — the week appears to come entirely from ancient Mesopotamian religious tradition, in a piece of structure that has organized the human workforce for roughly 4,000 years

Open a calendar. Notice that you do not need a telescope, a clock, or an almanac to verify what a day is — the sun rises, the sun sets, and a day has elapsed.

Jun 13, 2026
Psychology

There is an entire continent on Earth that almost no one has ever stood on — Zealandia, a 1.9 million square mile landmass east of Australia, roughly half the size of the continent it sits beside — but 94 percent of it is submerged under the Pacific Ocean, with only the islands of New Zealand and New Caledonia poking above the waves, and it was only formally recognized as Earth’s eighth continent in 2017

In August 2017, the deep-sea drilling ship JOIDES Resolution dropped its drill string into the South Pacific approximately 1,500 kilometres east of Australia and began boring into the sediments at the bottom of the Tasman Sea.

Jun 13, 2026
Mind & Meaning

A trained dog can detect a single drop of blood diluted in 20 Olympic-sized swimming pools — a sensitivity so extreme that dogs can pick up the molecular traces of cancer in a person’s breath — and a 2024 study found them correctly identifying breast, lung, prostate, and colorectal cancer with roughly 94 percent accuracy

Somewhere in a quiet research facility outside Tel Aviv, a Labrador retriever named Mars is being asked to do something a $100,000 mass-spectrometry machine…

Jun 13, 2026