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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

Only one spacecraft has ever visited Uranus or Neptune: Voyager 2, which flew past Uranus in 1986 and Neptune in 1989. Nearly four decades later, no mission has returned, leaving many of the biggest questions those flybys raised — about the planets’ interiors, strange magnetic fields, rings, and moons — still unresolved.

Voyager 2 remains the only spacecraft to have visited Uranus and Neptune, leaving many ice-giant questions to be answered by a future orbiter or probe.

Jun 27, 2026

Science

Scientists took one of the naked mole rat’s longevity tricks — a gene that helps it produce unusually protective hyaluronan — and put it into mice. The result: the mice lived longer, had less inflammation, and were more resistant to tumours.

A Nature mouse study tested whether one naked mole-rat longevity trait, high-molecular-mass hyaluronan production through nmrHas2, could transfer healthspan benefits across species.

Jun 27, 2026

Science

A McMaster University AI model called SyntheMol-RL designed a new antibiotic candidate by searching a chemical space of 46 billion possible compounds — a scale far beyond physical lab screens, which usually test hundreds of thousands to a few million molecules.

A McMaster AI model reportedly searched 46 billion possible compounds for a new antibiotic candidate, showing how computational chemical space can exceed physical screening.

Jun 27, 2026

Science

We tend to think quantum tunnelling is a subatomic curiosity, but in 1984 and 1985 physicists at UC Berkeley showed that a superconducting electrical circuit big enough to hold in your hand could tunnel from one state to another — a discovery that won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics.

A look at the Berkeley superconducting circuit experiments that demonstrated macroscopic quantum tunnelling and energy quantisation, later recognised by the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Jun 27, 2026

Science

In 2018, low Earth orbit still had months of margin: if satellites stopped dodging one another, researchers estimate it could take 164 days before a catastrophic collision. By 2025, after the rise of megaconstellations, that margin had collapsed to just 5.5 days.

A proposed CRASH Clock metric estimates how low Earth orbit's recovery margin has tightened as megaconstellations have increased orbital density.

Jun 27, 2026

Science

A bowhead whale can live for more than 200 years, yet it appears unusually resistant to cancer — and its genome carries genetic changes that may help explain why. Researchers have found signs of enhanced DNA repair in bowhead cells, turning one of the Arctic’s oldest mammals into a serious model for understanding aging itself.

Bowhead whales can live beyond 200 years, and genome and cell studies point to DNA repair as one possible clue to their unusual cancer resistance.

Jun 27, 2026

Science

In 1977, Ann Druyan recorded an hour of her brainwaves and heartbeat just two days after she and Carl Sagan agreed to marry, and NASA pressed that compressed minute onto Voyager’s Golden Record as a private love letter now more than 25 billion kilometres from Earth

Ann Druyan's compressed life-signs recording on Voyager's Golden Record remains one of the mission's most intimate human details.

Jun 27, 2026

Science

For decades, marine biologists have followed a lone whale in the North Pacific known as “52 Blue” because it sings at a frequency of 52 hertz — far higher than the great baleen whales it swims among — meaning that for its entire life it has been calling out into the dark in a voice that, as far as anyone knows, no other whale has ever answered

The whale known as 52 Blue is famous for a call around 52 hertz, but the science is more careful than the myth of the loneliest whale.

Jun 27, 2026

Science

Nearly all of the internet’s international data — the messages, calls, and searches that cross continents — travels through fibre-optic cables laid on a seafloor that has never been fully surveyed, running over terrain no human eye has seen

International data mostly crosses oceans through subsea fibre cables, even though the wider seafloor remains only partly mapped and barely seen directly.

Jun 27, 2026

Constellations

The James Webb Space Telescope found a spiral galaxy, nicknamed the Big Wheel, that existed just two billion years after the Big Bang — five times more massive than the Milky Way, with a spiral structure our models say couldn’t have survived that early

JWST observations reveal the Big Wheel as a giant rotating disk galaxy two billion years after the Big Bang, unusually massive and large for its epoch.

Jun 27, 2026

Constellations

The Roman Space Telescope has the same size mirror as Hubble, but it will survey the sky up to 1,000 times faster — not because it sees deeper, but because it sees wider: each Roman image captures a patch of sky at least 100 times larger, making Hubble’s method look like counting a crowd one face at a time.

Roman uses a Hubble-size mirror, but its Wide Field Instrument captures far more sky per exposure, allowing surveys up to 1,000 times faster.

Jun 26, 2026

Earth News

When an iceberg roughly the size of Chicago broke away from Antarctica’s George VI Ice Shelf in January 2025, researchers diverted their ship to the newly exposed seafloor — and found a hidden world of sponges, anemones, sea spiders and octopuses that may have been thriving in darkness for hundreds of years.

On 13 January 2025, an iceberg named A-84 broke away from Antarctica's George VI Ice Shelf, opening a section of seafloor that had been sealed beneath floating ice.

Jun 26, 2026

Science

Scientists long thought life in the deepest ocean trenches depended mostly on scraps of sunlight-fed life drifting down from above — but at 9,500 metres beneath the Pacific, researchers found whole communities of tubeworms and clams powered instead by methane and hydrogen sulfide seeping from cracks in the seafloor.

For much of modern ocean science, the deepest trenches were treated as places where life survived on leftovers.

Jun 26, 2026

Science

Venus and Earth formed from similar raw material at roughly the same time and are almost identical in size — yet one became a living world of oceans and forests, while the other became a 465-degree wasteland hot enough to melt lead.

Venus and Earth make a useful pair because the comparison begins so neatly and then breaks almost completely.

Jun 26, 2026

Chip Tech

TSMC’s most advanced fab in Hsinchu prints transistors 25,000 times thinner than a human hair — using light that doesn’t naturally exist on Earth

Inside TSMC's Hsinchu fabs, plasma-driven extreme ultraviolet light at 13.5 nanometres prints circuit features 25,000 times finer than a human hair — using light that doesn't naturally reach Earth's surface.

Jun 26, 2026

Aerospace

SpaceX won a NASA contract worth up to $843 million to build a single machine whose only job is to drag the space station out of orbit and into the Pacific Ocean

NASA awarded SpaceX a contract worth up to $843 million in June 2024 to build a single-use vehicle whose only purpose is to deorbit the International Space Station into the Pacific Ocean around 2030, ending more than three decades of continuous human presence aboard the largest object ever assembled in orbit.

Jun 26, 2026