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During the total solar eclipse of July 8, 1842, an astronomer watched the ground itself start to ripple
A centuries-old mystery persists even as astronomers have grown better at watching the sky—and they still can't fully explain what made the earth appear to breathe during that eclipse.
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NASA researchers now estimate the Milky Way holds 20 times more rogue planets than stars
A nine-year microlensing survey implies roughly 20 free-floating or very wide-orbit planets per star, but the trillions figure is a model with broad uncertainty, not a direct census.
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Space
Industry news, exploration, and the engineering of getting humans and machines beyond Earth.
Huygens touched down on Titan at roughly the speed of a ball dropped from a metre up, denting the ground by 12 centimetres before it…
In 1961 President Kennedy picked Ed Dwight to become America's first Black astronaut candidate, but NASA never selected him, so he spent…
A planet nearly 700 light-years away has clouds that form on its cooler morning side and disappear by the time the atmosphere reaches its…
Neptune's largest moon Triton travels around its planet backwards, orbiting in the opposite direction to Neptune's rotation
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Mind & Meaning
The psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes — and what frontier life teaches us about being human.
NASA is currently assembling a nuclear-powered octocopter in a Maryland cleanroom that is scheduled to reach Saturn's moon Titan in 2034…
Scientists estimate that even with 1,000 deep-sea vehicles each visually surveying about three square kilometres of seafloor per year—the…
NASA researchers now estimate the Milky Way holds 20 times more rogue planets than stars
Spending more time near crewmates in extreme isolation doesn't necessarily make people feel better
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Physics, climate, planetary science, and the research that shapes how we understand the universe.
Scientists estimate that even with 1,000 deep-sea vehicles each visually surveying about three square kilometres of seafloor per year—the…
NASA researchers now estimate the Milky Way holds 20 times more rogue planets than stars
Pando, a single quaking aspen in central Utah, is one organism made of about 47,000 genetically identical trunks sharing a root system that…
The popular claim that every star you see is already dead is the opposite of true
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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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