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.

Exo Life

Tardigrades can survive being boiled, frozen to near absolute zero, blasted with radiation, and exposed to the vacuum of space, and they do it by drying themselves into a glass-like state where every cellular process stops and they wait, sometimes for decades, for water to come back.

Tardigrades survive vacuum, near-absolute-zero cold, lethal radiation, and 30-year droughts by drying themselves into a vitrified husk where metabolism stops entirely. The biology is now flying on space stations and crashed into the Moon.

May 26, 2026

Science

In April 2016, a mother who had lost two children to the same disease flew to Mexico to try something no one had ever done — and came home with a baby boy carrying DNA from three people, the first child ever born from a science built to spare him his siblings’ fate

In April 2016, a Jordanian mother who had lost two daughters to the same neurological disease flew to Mexico with her husband to attempt something that had never been done before.

May 26, 2026

Constellations

The Milky Way’s central black hole is almost silent today, but a collision with the Large Magellanic Cloud could feed it enough gas to wake it up — roughly two billion years from now

It comes from a study led by Marius Cautun of the Institute for Computational Cosmology at Durham University, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

May 26, 2026

Deep Space

The James Webb Space Telescope has just spotted a doomed star 40 million light-years away — wrapped in a dust shroud so thick it was invisible to Hubble — and the discovery may finally explain why the biggest stars in the universe keep vanishing before they explode

For decades, the wider scientific community has been operating with a particular puzzle in the field of stellar death.

May 26, 2026

Science

Adding a banana to a berry smoothie can cancel out roughly 84% of the antioxidants the berries were supposed to deliver — and the reason is the same enzyme that turns bananas brown after they’re peeled

The standard cultural framing of how to make a healthy smoothie has, for most of the last two decades, been calibrated to a particular combination of ingredients.

May 26, 2026

Science

The paper that explained why every living thing on Earth exists was rejected by 15 journals before anyone took it seriously — and the idea it contained is stranger than most science fiction

In 1966, a young biologist named Lynn Margulis submitted a paper to a scientific journal.

May 26, 2026

Space Industry

A genuine “once in a blue moon” event arrives this Sunday, May 31 — the only monthly Blue Moon between now and the very end of 2028 — and this one will pass right next to the bright orange heart of Scorpius in the predawn sky

The English expression "once in a blue moon," used as a stand-in for events that occur so infrequently that the speaker has effectively given up on tracking them, has, on the available etymological record, been in use for approximately four hundred years.

May 26, 2026

Deep Space

A space telescope orbiting Earth just picked up the same strange signature buried in every kind of cosmic ray it can detect — and it’s a fingerprint physicists have been quietly waiting on since 1912

Cosmic rays were first discovered in 1912 by the Austrian physicist Victor Hess, who conducted a series of balloon flights into the upper atmosphere and…

May 26, 2026

Science

A research vessel mapping the Mediterranean floor off the coast of Sicily has just uncovered something the existing maps of the region don’t show — and it’s been sitting there, just kilometers from one of the most populated coastlines in Europe, the whole time.

The southwestern coast of Sicily is, by the standards of European coastal demography, one of the more densely populated coastlines on the continent.

May 26, 2026

Human Behaviour

The human body replaces almost all of its cells over a roughly 7-10 year period — but the neurons in your cerebral cortex are almost certainly the same age as you are

There is a thought experiment that philosophers have been arguing about since ancient Greece.

May 26, 2026

Mind & Meaning

Microsoft built an anechoic chamber so quiet that the background noise drops below the threshold of human hearing, and nobody has been able to sit inside it for more than 45 minutes because the brain begins to hallucinate when the only sounds left are your own heartbeat and lungs

There is a room inside Building 87 on Microsoft's Redmond campus that almost nobody is allowed into — and that almost nobody who is allowed in wants to stay in for very long.

May 26, 2026

Constellations

For decades two spacecraft drifting out of the solar system were being nudged off course by a force no one could explain — until physicists traced it to the faint heat radiating from the probes themselves.

Navigators tracking NASA's Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 spacecraft could see something in the data they could not fully account for.

May 26, 2026

Marsdaily

The Opportunity rover’s famous last words — “my battery is low and it’s getting dark” — were never actually sent from Mars. The real story of where that sentence came from is stranger, and somehow sadder

If you spend any time online, you've almost certainly encountered the story.

May 26, 2026

Aerospace

In 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit Earth — but he did not land inside Vostok 1. He ejected and parachuted to Earth separately, and Soviet officials omitted that fact from official records because aviation record rules required the pilot to land with the craft

The record stands. On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth.

May 26, 2026

Science

When the Soviet Union sent the dog Laika into orbit in 1957, the public was told she had survived for days — but decades later it emerged that she had actually died within hours, after Sputnik 2’s cabin overheated.

In October 2002, at the World Space Congress in Houston, the Russian scientist Dimitri Malashenkov presented a paper that corrected the public account of one of the most widely recounted events of the early space age.

May 26, 2026

Climate Science

On 22 October 2017, a single lightning flash crossed five US states in 7.39 seconds, travelled 829 kilometres from Texas to near Kansas City, and produced more than 116 cloud-to-ground strikes along its path, an event approximately fifty times longer than a typical lightning bolt that was missed at the time and only identified through a 2024 reanalysis of archived satellite data.

On the afternoon of 22 October 2017, a large thunderstorm complex moved across the central United States, extending at its peak from Minnesota down to Texas.

May 26, 2026