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The closest star beyond the Sun is only four light-years away, yet at the speed of our fastest spacecraft a journey there would still last longer than recorded human civilization
Four light-years sounds close only because astronomy usually deals in much larger numbers.
Appointments
Carl Sagan was denied tenure at Harvard in the late 1960s, reportedly for being too public a scientist; Cornell hired him and named him David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences
Around 1967, Harvard turned down a young astronomer for tenure. His name was Carl Sagan.
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Mind & Meaning
The psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes — and what frontier life teaches us about being human.
The Hubble Space Telescope reached orbit with a mirror ground to the wrong shape by a fraction of a human hair, and astronauts repaired the billion-dollar mistake by effectively giving it glasses
The closest star beyond the Sun is only four light-years away, yet at the speed of our fastest spacecraft a journey there would still last longer than recorded human civilization
Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, yet permanently shadowed craters near its poles contain water ice that may have survived for billions of years
Human radio signals have expanded into space for more than a century, but they have crossed only a tiny bubble of the Milky Way and most of the galaxy has no possible way to know we exist
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Physics, climate, planetary science, and the research that shapes how we understand the universe.
The Hubble Space Telescope reached orbit with a mirror ground to the wrong shape by a fraction of a human hair, and astronauts repaired the billion-dollar mistake by effectively giving it glasses
In 2023, researchers placed a GPS collar on a young bull elephant in Zambia. Two years later, his path stretched across four countries and six national parks, revealing the ancient routes elephants still remember, and the human borders now cutting through them
In November 1957, a stray dog from Moscow's streets was strapped into Sputnik 2 and launched into orbit in a capsule never designed to come home — and Soviet officials claimed for 45 years that Laika had died painlessly after several days, until a scientist admitted in 2002 she had died within hours when the thermal control failed.
In 2019, Victor Vescovo made the deepest solo dive in human history, descending nearly 11 kilometres into the Challenger Deep, and at the bottom of the ocean he reported seeing what looked like a plastic bag
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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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