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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.

Human Behaviour

The science of why some people seem to age dramatically slower than others is mostly the science of one thing — cumulative sun exposure — and what looks like good genes in someone’s seventies is usually fifty years of quiet sun protection that nobody, including the person, ever consciously planned

By the Space Daily editorial team. This article is general science reporting, not personal medical advice.

May 28, 2026

Science

When a Scottish sheep named Dolly was born on July 5, 1996 — cloned from a single cell taken from the udder of a six-year-old Finn Dorset ewe — she became the first mammal ever produced from an adult body cell, proving something developmental biologists had spent decades insisting was impossible

On 5 July 1996, in a barn at the Roslin Institute outside Edinburgh, a Finn Dorset lamb was born to a Scottish Blackface surrogate ewe.

May 28, 2026

Psychology

In a Beijing laboratory, 25 volunteers spent a week learning to fly with feathered virtual-reality wings — flapping to stay aloft, swerving through rings, swatting falling balls — and by the end, their brains were processing images of wings the same way they process images of real human limbs

In a single study published in May 2026 in Cell Reports, researchers at Peking University and Beijing Normal University asked twenty-five volunteers to spend a week learning to fly.

May 28, 2026

Science

In 2018, a Chinese biophysicist announced he had gene-edited twin girls using CRISPR. The scientific consensus is that what he actually did was something else

On 25 November 2018, two days before an international summit on human genome editing was due to open in Hong Kong, the MIT Technology Review broke the story…

May 28, 2026

Psychology

Thought of the day by Albert Einstein: “The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.”

The line, in one form or another, is one of the most cited things Albert Einstein is said to have written.

May 28, 2026

Culture

In 1811, the planners of Manhattan’s street grid accidentally built one of the largest sun-aligned monuments in the world — and four times a year, the setting sun lines up perfectly with the city’s east-west streets, in an event Neil deGrasse Tyson named Manhattanhenge

For a few minutes on four evenings each year, the setting sun falls into perfect alignment with the east-west cross streets of Manhattan, throwing a low golden corridor of light from river to river through the canyons of midtown.

May 28, 2026

Science

Earth is quietly dusted with thousands of tonnes of space material every year, most of it as grains smaller than sand — and some of it can be sifted from the grit of ordinary roof gutters, tiny meteorites hiding in plain sight in cities.

Extraterrestrial dust falls on every part of the Earth, including the parts covered in cities.

May 28, 2026

Mind & Meaning

75% of Americans say they would trust AI shopping recommendations less if results were sponsored — which means OpenAI just made a decision that could structurally damage the thing that makes it valuable

Quad/Graphics and The Harris Poll released a survey on 13 April 2026 titled "The New Rules of Retail Trust in the Age of AI.

May 28, 2026

Constellations

The makers of the Voyager Golden Record could not assume an alien would understand minutes or seconds, so the playback speed engraved on its cover is defined against a single, unchanging frequency of the hydrogen atom — a clock written into the physics of the universe.

The two Voyager spacecraft, launched in 1977, each carry a gold-plated copper phonograph record.

May 28, 2026

Constellations

Neptune was found not by anyone scanning the night sky but by mathematics — Urbain Le Verrier noticed Uranus being tugged off its predicted path, worked out where the hidden planet had to be, and astronomers in Berlin who pointed a telescope at that patch of sky found Neptune within a degree of his prediction that same night.

On the night of 23 September 1846, an astronomer at the Berlin Observatory pointed a telescope at a particular patch of sky, compared what he saw against a star chart, and found a planet that no chart recorded.

May 28, 2026

Constellations

When Vera Rubin measured the spin of galaxies, she found their outer stars moving so fast that visible matter alone could not hold them in place — one of the clearest early signs that most of every galaxy is made of something nobody has ever seen.

Beginning with the Andromeda galaxy in the late 1960s, the astronomer Vera Rubin and her colleague Kent Ford measured how fast stars and gas clouds orbit at different distances from a galaxy's centre.

May 28, 2026

Science

The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs happened to strike a shallow seabed rich in sulphur and buried hydrocarbons, throwing soot and aerosols into the sky — and researchers argue the same rock hitting most other places might not have ended their reign.

The asteroid that struck near Chicxulub, in what is now the Yucatán Peninsula, about 66 million years ago did not hit a random patch of the planet.

May 28, 2026

Science

In 1964, a quiet British physicist named Peter Higgs proposed the existence of an invisible field permeating the entire universe — the thing that gives every particle of matter its mass — and it took another 48 years before scientists at CERN finally proved he was right, in a discovery that completed our most fundamental theory of how the universe is built

On 19 October 1964, Physical Review Letters published a two-page communication by Peter Higgs of the Tait Institute of Mathematical Physics at the University of Edinburgh.

May 27, 2026

Science

The Human Genome Project was declared complete in 2003 — but about 8% of human DNA was still missing, including some of the regions most critical to chromosome stability and immunity, and it took another nineteen years to finally read it all

On 14 April 2003, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium announced the completion of the Human Genome Project through the National Human Genome Research Institute and the US Department of Energy.

May 27, 2026

Deep Space

In 1992, the number of confirmed planets outside our solar system was zero — and as of this year, NASA’s exoplanet archive lists more than 6,000 of them, with the lead scientist on the archive predicting the number could hit 100,000 within the next seven years

The official tally of confirmed planets outside our solar system, maintained by NASA's Exoplanet Science Institute at Caltech, has passed 6,000. The agency…

May 27, 2026

Science

There is a spot in the South Pacific so far from any coastline that when the International Space Station passes overhead, the nearest human beings may be the astronauts in orbit — not anyone on land.

There is a location in the South Pacific so far from land that, for stretches of any given day, the closest human beings to it are not on the Earth's surface at all.

May 27, 2026