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The Huygens probe descended by parachute to the surface of Titan in 2005, through an orange haze colder than minus 170 degrees Celsius, and more than a billion kilometres from home it remains the only spacecraft humanity has ever landed anywhere in the outer solar system

On 14 January 2005, the European Space Agency's Huygens probe descended through the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, and came to rest on the surface.

By Lachlan Brown · May 22, 2026

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A Colorado startup just raised $30 million to send a second rover to the Moon — and the real bet isn't on exploration, it's on becoming the construction crew that arrives before the astronauts do

Lunar Outpost has secured $30 million in Series B funding as the Colorado company tries to move from building individual lunar rovers to supplying the machines that could prepare the Moon for longer-term human use.

By Space Daily Editorial Team · May 22, 2026

The Soviet Lunokhod 1 rover went silent on the Moon in 1971, then scientists found its lost reflector in 2010 and got a signal bright enough to reopen a forgotten corner of lunar science

For nearly 40 years, Lunokhod 1 was not so much dead as misplaced. The Soviet rover had stopped responding in 1971, after almost a year on the lunar surface.

By Space Daily Editorial Team · May 22, 2026

JWST just mapped the morning weather on a planet 690 light-years away, and the forecast of sand-like clouds exposed a 100-fold bias in how exoplanet atmospheres have been read for more than a decade

The James Webb Space Telescope has produced something close to a daily weather report for a planet 690 light-years away, and the forecast…

By Space Daily Editorial Team · May 22, 2026

Dante imagined a catastrophic planetary impact in striking geological detail 500 years before science understood how asteroids work — and it took a researcher reading the Inferno to notice

The structure of Hell, as Dante Alighieri laid it out in the early 14th century, is a cone-shaped cavity driven into the earth, narrowing through nine concentric rings toward a frozen pit at the centre of the planet.

By Space Daily Editorial Team · May 22, 2026

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Apple just rolled out hearing tests on AirPods Pro and hypertension alerts on Apple Watch to a new wave of countries — including India, Italy, and Taiwan — putting clinical-grade health screening in the pockets of users in more than 160 countries around the world

On May 21, 2026, Apple announced the latest expansion of its health-monitoring features across a substantial new set of countries.

By Space Daily Editorial Team · May 22, 2026

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The Huygens probe descended by parachute to the surface of Titan in 2005, through an orange haze colder than minus 170 degrees Celsius, and more than a billion kilometres from home it remains the only spacecraft humanity has ever landed anywhere in the outer solar system

By Lachlan Brown

A Colorado startup just raised $30 million to send a second rover to the Moon — and the real bet isn't on exploration, it's on becoming the construction crew that arrives before the astronauts do

By Space Daily Editorial Team

In 1970 a Soviet probe became the first object ever to transmit from the surface of another planet, and it lasted barely 23 minutes on Venus before the heat killed it

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The Hubble Space Telescope was launched before Google, before the smartphone era, and before digital cameras became normal, and NASA engineers have now reconfigured it to keep observing the universe on a single working gyroscope after 35 years aloft.

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The third-largest Ebola outbreak on record is spreading through DRC and Uganda — and aid workers, former USAID officials, and global health experts say recent US funding cuts have made detection and response significantly harder

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A new species of mosasaur named Tylosaurus rex — twice the length of a great white shark, with finely serrated teeth and evidence of violent combat against its own kind — has just been identified from 80-million-year-old Texas fossils that had been sitting in museums for decades

By Daniel Moran

Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury are lining up in the western sky after sunset this week — and a Blue Moon is sliding past Antares — in a run of evening sky events that won't be matched again for years

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The satellite that has been tracking Earth's wildfires for 24 years is running out of fuel to dodge debris — and when it finally can't, the climate record it spent two decades building goes with it

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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.

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