Original investigations, profile features, and longer essays from the Space Daily editorial team. Pieces published here go through additional research and review.
The water crisis hidden in your closet begins thousands of kilometres away, in drought-stricken river basins where cotton farmers drain aquifers to grow the shirt on your back.
A silicon carbide grain extracted from the Murchison meteorite, which fell on a Victorian dairy farm in 1969, was dated in 2020 to about seven billion years old — condensed in the atmosphere of a dying star more than two billion years before the Sun existed, and the oldest solid material ever held in a human hand.
The freshwater polyp Hydra vulgaris shows no measurable signs of aging in laboratory colonies, and researchers have watched single animals regenerate from pinhead-sized fragments more than sixty times without cellular decline. A 2021 paper in Genome Biology and Evolution mapped how it does it.
Cymothoa exigua, a small marine crustacean, enters fish through the gills, eats the tongue from the inside out, and then takes its place. Biologists call it the only known parasite that functionally replaces an organ of its host.
Pando, a single quaking aspen in Utah's Fishlake National Forest, weighs 6,000 tons, contains 47,000 genetically identical trunks across 106 acres, and may have been cloning itself for up to 80,000 years.
A tentative dark-matter hint surfaces in gravitational-wave data the same season the world's most sensitive direct-detection experiment confirms it has hit the neutrino fog empty-handed — raising an old question about how detection paradigms exhaust themselves into adjacent instruments.
House appropriators added more than a billion dollars to the Space Launch System above NASA's own request and forbade the agency from redirecting it, even as NASA's inspector general has called the program's $4.1 billion per-flight cost unsustainable.
JWST has just resolved a galaxy as it existed 800 million years after the Big Bang, even as NEO Surveyor — the only NASA mission Congress has required by statute — remains decades behind its asteroid-catalog deadline. The gap inside a single agency is the lesson.
NASA's Artemis II crew brought a plush zero-gravity indicator to Capitol Hill in May 2026, weeks after the White House proposed cutting the agency's science directorate by 47% — a single budget cycle revealing which kind of space work Congress can see.
