Latest
Watch
Space Daily on YouTube
The eerie, first-person science of space. What the cosmos does to human bodies, minds, and the world you think you know.
Writers
Named bylines from Space Daily editors and writers. Full titles, not the house feed.
Latest from the writers
-
Aug 16, 2026
Dogs assess more than a person’s posture, voice, or facial expression when they meet them
-
Aug 15, 2026
Astronomers discovered a reservoir of water vapor 12 billion light-years away containing 140 trillion times as much water as all of Earth’s…
-
Aug 15, 2026
Japan now sells more adult nappies than baby nappies, a genuine and jarring marker of a country ageing faster than it can replace itself…
-
Aug 15, 2026
The idea that Earth is the Solar System's ultimate water world is misleading
-
Aug 15, 2026
In April 2025, four private astronauts aboard SpaceX's Fram2 became the first humans ever to circle Earth in a true polar orbit
Latest
All articles →
Science
A bowhead whale living today could have been born before the American Civil War
Eye-lens chemistry and 19th-century weapons embedded in harvested whales reveal a mammal whose lifespan can extend beyond two centuries.
Science
Dolphins on opposite sides of Australia, thousands of kilometres apart, appear to have independently learned to chase fish into empty…
The first published shelling records from eastern Australia suggest dolphins reinvented a rare tool-using tactic already known from Shark Bay, then began passing it on locally.
What’s up in
Space
Industry news, exploration, and the engineering of getting humans and machines beyond Earth.
At the start of 2019, fewer than 2,000 active satellites circled Earth. By June 2026 there were 15,711
Mimas looks like one of Saturn's deadest moons
Scientists recreated the conditions on Saturn's moon Titan and watched molecules that shouldn't mix form stable crystals together
Voyager 2 is nearly 50 years old, losing about 4 watts of power every year as its plutonium power source fades
What’s up in
Mind & Meaning
The psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes — and what frontier life teaches us about being human.
James Webb spotted a bizarre object just 660 million years after the Big Bang that looks like an enormous star but shines with roughly 100…
A 58-kilometre-long spacecraft called Chrysalis won an international design competition in 2025 by laying out in extraordinary detail how…
A bowhead whale living today could have been born before the American Civil War
Dolphins on opposite sides of Australia, thousands of kilometres apart, appear to have independently learned to chase fish into empty…
What’s up in
Science
Physics, climate, planetary science, and the research that shapes how we understand the universe.
A pop-up tag on a pregnant porbeagle shark kept reporting for four days after it stopped moving like a shark
James Webb spotted a bizarre object just 660 million years after the Big Bang that looks like an enormous star but shines with roughly 100…
A trail camera in British Columbia recorded a wild wolf swimming out to a buoy and hauling a fully submerged crab trap up the beach by its…
A bowhead whale living today could have been born before the American Civil War
About Space Daily
Space, science, and the human side of the frontier. Since 1995.
Space Daily is an independent publication covering three connected beats: the space industry, the science behind it, and the psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes. Founded in Tokyo in 1995, we’ve built a thirty-year archive of rigorous reporting on the people, missions, and ideas pushing humanity outward — and on the human dynamics shaped by frontier life. The same ambitions, pressures, and patterns of mind that drive humanity to the stars also shape how we live on Earth. We employ modern AI technologies to support our editorial workflows; every published piece is editorially directed and reviewed.
More about us →