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Space Daily Editorial Team
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.

Constellations

The Hubble Space Telescope was nearly blind for its first three years because its primary mirror was ground too flat by 2.2 micrometers, and NASA’s reputation depended on a 1993 repair mission built around corrective optics the size of a refrigerator

Hubble launched in 1990 with a primary mirror polished 2.2 micrometers too flat, about one-fiftieth the width of a human hair, and the resulting blur nearly sank NASA's reputation. Here is how a 1993 spacewalk and a phone-booth-sized box of corrective mirrors saved the telescope.

May 17, 2026
Science

The cells in your eyes that detect light are technically part of your brain, pushed outward during embryonic development, which means when you look at the night sky your brain is physically touching the photons that left distant stars thousands of years ago.

Photoreceptors in the human retina are central nervous system neurons that grew outward from the forebrain during the fourth week of embryonic development. When starlight hits your eye, it is striking brain tissue directly.

May 17, 2026
Human Behaviour

Rubin Observatory will sift 10,000 comets from a decade of nightly sky imagery while Walter Reed left 1,300 facial CT scans unread for five years — the same archival-image problem, solved in one domain and chronic in another

Rubin Observatory's automated pipelines pulled an interstellar comet out of pre-discovery sky imagery within days; a flagship US military hospital left 1,300 facial CT scans unread for five years. The same archival-image problem has been solved in one domain and remains chronic in another.

May 17, 2026
Science

Greenland sharks can live for more than 400 years — meaning some of the ones swimming the North Atlantic today were alive when Isaac Newton was — and almost all of them spend those centuries functionally blind, navigating the deep ocean with parasites permanently attached to their eyes.

The Greenland shark has become a fixture of popular science writing in the way of a small number of charismatic creatures: the immortal jellyfish, the deep-sea tube worm, the bristlecone pine.

May 17, 2026