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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.

Science

Roughly two billion years ago, one single-celled organism swallowed another and instead of digesting it, ended up living with it permanently inside — and the bacterium that almost became a meal became the mitochondria that now power nearly every cell in nearly every plant and animal on Earth, still carrying a small remnant of their own ancient bacterial DNA, separate from ours.

Roughly two billion years ago, one single-celled organism ended up living permanently inside another.

May 19, 2026
Culture

There’s a version of astrology a scientist can honestly engage with — not the planetary-influence version, which has been repeatedly falsified, but the human-psychology version, which is the real reason horoscopes work, the real reason birth charts feel uncanny, and the real reason this practice has outlived nearly every empire that ever banned it

The standard register of contemporary commentary on astrology tends to treat the entire subject as if it consisted of one claim, which is that the positions of…

May 18, 2026
Constellations

In 1982 the Soviet Union landed a probe on the surface of Venus that survived 127 minutes in heat that melts lead and pressure dense enough to crush a submarine — long enough to scan back two panoramas of flat basaltic rock under an orange-tinted sky before the heat finally ended the mission.

In March 1982, a Soviet lander survived nearly four times its design life on the surface of Venus, returning panoramic imagery from a place that should have destroyed it within half an hour.

May 18, 2026
Deep Space

Saturn’s rings are mostly made of water ice, and they’re slowly raining down into the planet at a rate that means they’ll be gone in roughly 100 million years — which sounds geologically long, but in the timeline of the solar system it means we’re seeing them during one specific moment of their existence, and almost any other moment we could have been born into would have seen Saturn without them

Saturn's rings are, by every available physical measurement, made mostly of water ice.

May 18, 2026
Human Behaviour

Humans share roughly 60 percent of our genes with a banana — and the framing makes for good party trivia, but the more interesting fact is what it actually means: that nearly all the basic machinery for being a living thing was settled long before our lineage and the banana’s parted ways, and most of what makes any of us recognizable is the small remaining percentage we don’t share.

The standard version of this fact, the one that appears on t-shirts and in dinner-party trivia, is that humans share roughly 60 percent of our DNA with a banana.

May 18, 2026
Constellations

The Cassini spacecraft was deliberately flown into Saturn in 2017 because its fuel was running low and engineers refused to risk it drifting into Enceladus, a moon with a subsurface ocean, and the final 22 orbits were designed to thread a 1,500-mile gap between Saturn and its innermost ring that no spacecraft had ever attempted.

On September 15, 2017, a spacecraft burned up in the cloud tops of Saturn, ending a 20-year mission with a controlled suicide that engineers had planned years in advance.

May 18, 2026