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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.

Constellations

A 36-year sweep of orbital debris has found the solar threshold where Earth’s upper atmosphere starts pulling space junk down faster, just as mega-constellations crowd low orbit

Solar Cycle 25 has already reached its solar maximum period, and a new long-term study of orbital debris points to a practical warning for the satellite age:…

May 26, 2026

Science

Deep beneath Antarctica, researchers drill ice cores filled with tiny bubbles of ancient air, sealed into the ice for hundreds of thousands of years — letting them sample the atmosphere of a world no living human ever breathed.

When snow falls on the interior of Antarctica, it does not melt. It piles up, year on year, and the weight of each new layer presses the layers below into ice.

May 26, 2026

Science

In 1986, a freshwater lake in Cameroon released a cloud of carbon dioxide that killed 1,746 people in a single night, and that lake is one of only three on Earth known to be capable of this, the largest of which sits beneath roughly two million people.”

On the evening of 21 August 1986, in a remote part of northwestern Cameroon, the surface of a small crater lake known as Lake Nyos exhibited a brief disturbance.

May 26, 2026

Science

Astronauts come home from long stays on the International Space Station measurably taller, their spines stretching by a few centimetres without gravity to compress them — though the extra height usually disappears soon after they return to Earth.

Astronauts who spend months on the International Space Station come back to Earth slightly taller than when they left.

May 26, 2026

Constellations

In 1995, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft sent a probe into Jupiter’s atmosphere that kept transmitting for just 58 minutes as it fell, returning the first direct readings from inside the giant planet before rising heat and pressure silenced it for good

On 7 December 1995, a small probe released by NASA's Galileo spacecraft entered the atmosphere of Jupiter and transmitted data as it fell.

May 26, 2026

Deep Space

When a Soviet rover went silent on the Moon in 1971, scientists assumed it was gone for good — but nearly forty years later, the reflector strapped to its back answered a laser pulse from Earth as if no time had passed at all

On 17 November 1970, a Soviet unmanned mission called Luna 17 touched down on the Sea of Rains, a wide basalt plain on the near side of the Moon.

May 25, 2026

Science

A common dietary supplement — omega-3, the kind found in fish oil and flax — has been shown across nearly 4,000 people to reduce aggression by up to 28%, whether it’s the heat-of-the-moment kind or the kind people plan in advance

The standard cultural framing of how aggression operates has, for most of the contemporary period, been calibrated to a particular set of explanatory variables.

May 25, 2026

Aerospace

The Arecibo message — humanity’s most famous deliberate radio message to another civilization — was aimed at a star cluster about 25,000 light-years away in 1974, meaning even an immediate reply would not reach Earth until around 52,000 CE

Imagine standing under a tent on a karst hillside in Puerto Rico, on an afternoon in November 1974, watching the dedication of a remodeled radio telescope.For just under three minutes it warbles at the sky.

May 25, 2026

Science

In 1991, eight people sealed themselves inside a glass world in the Arizona desert for two years, and the experiment nearly unravelled when the oxygen began disappearing from the air they were breathing

On 26 September 1991, eight people were sealed inside Biosphere 2, a three-acre enclosure of glass and steel near Oracle, Arizona.

May 25, 2026

Science

The tallest known living thing on Earth is a coastal redwood named Hyperion that stands 380 feet tall in a hidden grove in California, and its exact location is kept secret by the National Park Service because the last time tourists found a record-holding redwood they trampled its root system so badly the tree began dying.

Hyperion, the world's tallest living tree at roughly 380 feet, grows in a hidden grove of Redwood National Park whose coordinates the Park Service refuses to disclose. The reason is what happened to the redwoods that came before it.

May 25, 2026

Space Industry

SPHEREx more than doubled the confirmed population of heavily reddened quasars at cosmic noon — and the new sample may catch supermassive black holes as they begin clearing the dust around them

SPHEREx has opened a much wider window onto one of the dustiest phases of black hole growth.

May 25, 2026

Deep Space

NASA is building a nuclear reactor for the Moon by 2030 — and testing the nuclear propulsion that could carry humans to Mars in the decade after — under a new directive that revives a space-nuclear ambition the agency has been quietly chasing since Apollo

NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy announced, on January 13, 2026, that they had signed a memorandum of understanding committing the two agencies to the…

May 25, 2026

Deep Space

Scientists think they may have found the remains of an entire galaxy that the Milky Way absorbed billions of years ago — 20 unusual stars hiding inside our own galactic disk, possibly the leftovers of a small galaxy our own home swallowed when it was still young

The Milky Way, by the standards of how large galaxies actually develop, is a particular kind of cosmic predator.

May 25, 2026

Mind & Meaning

In 1518 in Strasbourg, a woman stepped into the street and began to dance, and within a month roughly 400 people were dancing alongside her — some of them, according to later accounts, until they collapsed and died — and no one has ever fully explained why

On a July day in 1518, in the city of Strasbourg, a woman known to history as Frau Troffea walked out of her home and into the narrow cobbled street, and began to dance.

May 25, 2026

Moon Daily

Buzz Aldrin took Communion on the surface of the Moon using a tiny kit he carried aboard with NASA’s quiet blessing, pouring wine that curled slowly upward in one-sixth gravity — and NASA then asked him to keep it off the air to avoid inflaming a lawsuit already underway over a Bible reading from orbit

A few hours after the lunar module Eagle touched down on the Sea of Tranquility on July 20, 1969, before Neil Armstrong opened the hatch and climbed down the…

May 25, 2026

Earth News

In 1908 something exploded over a remote part of Siberia with the force of roughly 1,000 Hiroshima bombs, flattened 80 million trees, and was heard 600 miles away — and more than a century later, scientists still cannot fully agree on whether it was an asteroid, a comet, or something else entirely

On the morning of June 30, 1908, the sky over a remote stretch of Siberian forest split open.

May 25, 2026