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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

China has just sent stem-cell-grown structures resembling early human embryos to its space station — the first experiment of its kind in orbit — to find out whether humans can actually reproduce beyond Earth

On May 10, 2026, a Long March rocket lifted off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site on China's southern coast, carrying the Tianzhou-10 cargo spacecraft toward the Tiangong space station.

May 27, 2026

Science

Paleontologists in New Mexico have just dug up a two-legged, beak-mouthed reptile that looks almost exactly like a small dinosaur — except it lived more than a hundred million years before any dinosaur evolved that body plan, and it wasn’t a dinosaur at all, but a distant cousin of modern crocodiles

In the spring of 2026, a team of paleontologists led by the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County formally described a new species of reptile from a quarry in northern New Mexico.

May 27, 2026

Science

The Bronze Age civilization that built the city of Akrotiri on Santorini around 1600 BCE appears to have known a volcanic eruption was coming and evacuated almost everyone before it happened — archaeologists have found no bodies in the ruins, just abandoned belongings — and to this day nobody fully understands what warning signs they read, or where they went after they left

On a small Greek island in the southern Aegean Sea, sometime around 1600 BCE, the inhabitants of a Bronze Age city called Akrotiri did something that most…

May 27, 2026

Science

In 1816, a French physician named René Laennec, embarrassed to press his ear against the chest of a young female patient, rolled up a sheet of paper into a tube and listened through it instead — and that improvised paper cylinder, which let him hear her heart more clearly than direct contact had, became the original prototype for the stethoscope and quietly reshaped two centuries of medicine

In 1816, a thirty-five-year-old French physician named René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec was working at the Hôpital Necker in Paris when a young woman arrived in his consultation room with symptoms of heart disease.

May 27, 2026

Constellations

Scientists tracked 8,000 supermassive black holes across the universe and found most slowed their growth over the same 10 billion years — not because of any force acting on them, but because the universe ran low on the cold gas they needed to keep feeding

A survey of about 8,000 supermassive black holes has tracked their growth across roughly the last 10 billion years and found that accretion rates have been…

May 27, 2026

Science

The largest known organism on Earth isn’t a whale or a tree — it’s a single fungus growing underground in Oregon’s Malheur National Forest, covering nearly four square miles, mostly invisible, estimated to be between two and eight thousand years old and slowly killing the forest above it from beneath

In 1988, a forest pathologist named Greg Whipple, working for the United States Forest Service in eastern Oregon, was investigating a pattern of tree deaths in the Malheur National Forest.

May 27, 2026

Science

For more than thirty years after his death in 1955, Albert Einstein’s brain was kept in a series of jars in the basement of a Kansas pathologist who had removed it during the autopsy without permission — and when researchers finally examined it in the 1980s and 1990s, one study found that a specific region called the inferior parietal lobule was about fifteen percent wider than the average brain

Albert Einstein died on April 18, 1955, in Princeton, New Jersey, at the age of 76. The cause of death was an abdominal aortic aneurysm.

May 27, 2026

Space Travel

When Soviet engineers landed Venera 13 on the surface of Venus in 1982, they expected the probe to survive maybe thirty minutes in the planet’s lead-melting heat and crushing pressure — it survived 127 minutes and sent back the first color photographs ever taken from the surface of another planet

On March 1, 1982, a Soviet spacecraft called Venera 13 descended through the dense yellow atmosphere of Venus and touched down on a flat, rocky plain east of a region called Phoebe Regio.

May 27, 2026

Science

The Hubble Space Telescope launched in 1990 with a mirror so precisely ground that it was actually defective — the curve was off by about one-fiftieth the width of a human hair — producing blurry images for the first three and a half years of its mission, until astronauts on a 1993 Space Shuttle mission installed corrective optics in orbit and turned it into the most productive telescope in history

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, in what was, at the time, the largest single scientific instrument ever placed in orbit.

May 27, 2026

Deep Impact

The most distant human-made object in the universe is Voyager 1, currently more than 15 billion miles from Earth — and its plutonium power source is losing about four watts of output every year, meaning sometime around 2030 the spacecraft will quietly stop transmitting forever, ending the longest continuous human conversation ever conducted across cosmic distances

Voyager 1 was launched from Cape Canaveral on September 5, 1977. The spacecraft was, at the time of launch, designed for a five-year mission to fly past Jupiter and Saturn and return scientific data about the outer planets.

May 27, 2026

Deep Space

In 1969, Apollo 11’s lunar module Eagle landed on the Moon with about 25 seconds of fuel remaining and three program alarms blaring in the cabin — and one of the engineers who built the guidance system later said the only reason it worked was a young woman named Margaret Hamilton, who had insisted the software be able to ignore tasks it couldn’t complete

On July 20, 1969, the Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle descended toward the Sea of Tranquility with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin inside.

May 27, 2026

Earth News

For thousands of years, a giant iron meteorite lay in the far north of Greenland, where generations of Inuit travelled to it as their only source of metal for knives and harpoons — until the American explorer Robert Peary spent three years hauling the 31-ton mass to a ship in the 1890s and sold it to a New York museum, where it still sits today

Somewhere around 10,000 years ago, a mass of iron from space struck the far north of Greenland.

May 27, 2026

Space Travel

In 1961, a young chimpanzee captured in Cameroon and trained at a New Mexico air force base became the first hominin to travel into space and return alive — and the program kept him publicly nameless throughout the mission, as if to avoid the grief of losing a named chimp on national television, only calling him Ham after he came home

In January 1961, three months before Alan Shepard became the first American astronaut to travel into space, the United States space program launched a chimpanzee on a suborbital flight aboard the second Mercury-Redstone mission.

May 27, 2026

Constellations

When a young astronomer found a signal pulsing with impossible regularity in 1967, the team only half-jokingly labelled it LGM-1, for little green men — before realising they had discovered a spinning neutron star sweeping a beam past Earth like a lighthouse.

In the autumn of 1967, a doctoral student at the University of Cambridge noticed a recurring smudge on a roll of chart paper.

May 27, 2026

Space Travel

In April 1970, the crew of Apollo 13 navigated home by holding the spacecraft against the terminator of the Earth, the line where day met night on the planet they were trying to reach, timing a fourteen-second engine burn with a wristwatch because their guidance computer had been shut down to save battery power for reentry

With the Apollo Guidance Computer shut down to save battery power for reentry, the crew of Apollo 13 navigated home by holding the lunar terminator in a window crosshair and timing engine burns with an Omega Speedmaster wristwatch.

May 27, 2026

Solar Science

The Parker Solar Probe is now flying through the Sun’s outer atmosphere at 430,000 miles per hour, fast enough to cross the continental United States in 20 seconds, and its heat shield protects the instruments behind it by keeping them at room temperature while the front face glows at 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is the fastest human-made object ever, sweeping the Sun's corona at 430,000 mph while a 4.5-inch carbon foam shield holds its instruments at room temperature behind a 2,500-degree face.

May 27, 2026