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

A rare meteorite found in the Sahara may be a surviving shard of a lost Moon-sized world — one that formed beside the young Sun, followed a path unlike Earth or Mars, and was smashed apart while the planets were still being built.

A rock about the size of a fist, found lying in the Sahara, may be a surviving shard of a lost world nearly as large as the Moon.

Jul 3, 2026

Science

Fossil jaws hidden inside Cretaceous rocks have revealed that 100 million years ago, some octopuses grew into giant predators — possibly longer than a bus and more fearsome than any octopus alive today.

Octopuses are among the worst animals to leave behind as fossils. Their bodies are mostly soft tissue.

Jul 3, 2026

Mind & Meaning

When Israel’s first president died in 1952, the new nation offered the presidency to Albert Einstein — who turned it down, writing that he had neither the natural ability nor the experience to deal properly with people and to exercise official functions

"All my life I have dealt with objective matters, hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to exercise official functions.

Jul 3, 2026

Science

In November, a spacecraft that has spent eight years falling toward the Sun will finally settle into orbit around Mercury, a planet we have seen up close fewer times than almost any other in the solar system.

In November, a spacecraft called BepiColombo, after nearly eight years looping through the inner solar system, will finally let Mercury capture it into orbit.

Jul 3, 2026

Psychology

Researchers compared 5,556 people across 10 nations and found that parents tended to report a little more meaning and purpose in life — though their day-to-day happiness looked virtually the same as non-parents

Ask most parents what matters to them most in life and the answer is immediate; their kids.

Jul 3, 2026

Aerospace

A supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy cluster has erupted after approximately 100 million years of complete silence, unleashing a jet of magnetised plasma across nearly a million light-years of space in what the astronomers who observed it have described as a cosmic volcano coming back to life after ages of calm

Every large galaxy in the observable universe is thought to host a supermassive black hole at its centre.

Jul 3, 2026

Flora And Fauna

Because it chases summer from one end of the planet to the other, the Arctic tern experiences two summers every year and very likely sees more daylight than any other creature alive

The Arctic tern is a small seabird you could almost hold in one hand: a black cap over a pale body, a forked tail, and a wingspan under a metre.

Jul 2, 2026

Human Behaviour

Demographers estimate that about 117 billion members of our species have ever been born, which means the roughly 8 billion of us alive today are about 7% of everyone who has ever lived

Start with a single number: about 117 billion. That is the Population Reference Bureau's estimate for how many people have ever been born on Earth.

Jul 2, 2026

Political Economy

At independence in 1966, Botswana had about 12 km of paved road and only a few dozen university graduates; within six decades it became an upper-middle-income country with one of the highest GDP per head in Africa and one of the continent’s cleanest corruption records

Twelve kilometres of paved road. That is the figure that opens almost every account of Botswana at independence.

Jul 2, 2026

Constellations

A galaxy confirmed this January formed just 290 million years after the Big Bang, and the part astronomers cannot explain is that it is far too large, far too soon, as if the early universe was building things it was not supposed to be able to build yet.

Light from a galaxy called JADES-GS-z14-0 left on its way to us when the universe was only about 290 million years old, and the James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed both how far away it sits and how oddly grown-up it already looks.

Jul 2, 2026

Mind & Meaning

We tend to think real connection value only comes from close friends and family, but researchers found that brief, ordinary exchanges with near-strangers — the barista, the person on the train — measurably raise happiness and a sense of belonging

Ask people to picture a good commute and many of us imagine the same thing: quiet.

Jul 2, 2026

Constellations

On April 1 this year, four astronauts left Earth on humanity’s first crewed lunar mission since 1972, and by April 6 they had flown farther from home than any humans in history — returning with the strange perspective astronauts have described for decades, where Earth stops looking like a place and starts looking like something impossibly fragile.

On 1 April 2026, Artemis II lifted off from Kennedy Space Center with four people aboard Orion, beginning the first crewed lunar mission since Apollo 17 in 1972. By 6 April, the mission had moved beyond the familiar scale of low Earth orbit.

Jul 2, 2026

Moon Daily

NASA awards nearly $600 million for four new Moon Base cargo landings, targeting late 2028

Astrobotic, Firefly Aerospace and Intuitive Machines will each fly updated versions of landers they have already flown, carrying the same three NASA science instruments to build a network of data across the lunar surface.

Jul 2, 2026

Science

Deep in the Mexican jungle this June, archaeologists reached an intact Maya city hidden for more than a thousand years, where a pyramid temple, carved monuments and silent plazas had survived beneath the forest because there was literally “no road” to get there.

The discovery being described is Ocomtún, the Maya city announced after fieldwork in May and June 2023 in the Balamkú Ecological Conservation Zone of Campeche, Mexico.

Jul 2, 2026

Science

In December 2020, Singapore became the first country in human history to approve the commercial sale of meat that had never been part of a slaughtered animal — chicken grown from cultured cells in a bioreactor by a San Francisco company, served initially in a single Singapore restaurant

The first commercial meat in the recorded history of human agriculture that had never been part of a slaughtered animal was sold to a group of teenagers at a…

Jul 2, 2026

Technology

When OpenAI released ChatGPT as a free research preview on November 30, 2022, the software reached 100 million users worldwide in just 60 days — making it the fastest consumer application in the history of the internet, a milestone that had taken TikTok 9 months and Instagram over 2 years

The single most explosive consumer software launch in the recorded history of the commercial internet reached its 100-millionth user in the specific interval…

Jul 2, 2026