Watch
Space Daily on YouTube
The sky is being privatised and divided - before anyone got a vote. Deeply reported films on who is quietly claiming low orbit, the radio spectrum, and the Moon, and what that land-grab costs the rest of us on the ground.
Latest
All articles →
Science
Neptune has the strongest winds in the solar system, gusting past 1,200 miles an hour on a planet that gets barely a fraction of the sunlight Earth does
The most violent winds anywhere in the solar system do not blow on the largest planet or the one closest to the Sun.
Space Travel
In May 1992, after two failed attempts to capture a 4.5-tonne communications satellite with a specially built tool, three astronauts left Endeavour together and grabbed the free-flying spacecraft with their gloved hands — the first, and still only, three-person spacewalk in history
The moment people remember from STS-49 looks almost improvised: three astronauts in white suits, fixed to foot restraints and handholds…
What’s up in
Mind & Meaning
The psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes — and what frontier life teaches us about being human.
While Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were preparing to leave the Moon in July 1969, a Soviet robot called Luna 15 was descending toward another lunar sea in a final attempt to bring soil home first; it crashed after 52 orbits, ending a race that continued above the Moon even after Apollo 11 had landed
In May 1992, after two failed attempts to capture a 4.5-tonne communications satellite with a specially built tool, three astronauts left Endeavour together and grabbed the free-flying spacecraft with their gloved hands — the first, and still only, three-person spacewalk in history
Titan is the only place beyond Earth where a spacecraft has landed on a surface with liquid nearby, and the probe sent back the sound of alien wind before falling silent forever
Explorers who lowered themselves into a Vietnamese cave found a passage so vast it holds its own jungle, its own river and its own weather, a hidden world large enough to swallow a skyscraper
What’s up in
Science
Physics, climate, planetary science, and the research that shapes how we understand the universe.
While Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were preparing to leave the Moon in July 1969, a Soviet robot called Luna 15 was descending toward another lunar sea in a final attempt to bring soil home first; it crashed after 52 orbits, ending a race that continued above the Moon even after Apollo 11 had landed
A bar-tailed godwit flew 7,250 miles nonstop from Alaska to New Zealand, going more than eight days without landing, eating or drinking
In February 1985, the Soviet space station Salyut 7 went silent and began tumbling with dead batteries, frozen instruments and frost covering its windows; four months later, two cosmonauts docked with the powerless 20-tonne station by hand, entered wearing gas masks and brought it back to life with flashlights and improvised wiring
Neptune has the strongest winds in the solar system, gusting past 1,200 miles an hour on a planet that gets barely a fraction of the sunlight Earth does
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 →