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Forty years and multi-tonne xenon detectors have brought dark-matter searches to the 'neutrino fog' without a signal, while a tentative hint surfaces in LIGO data built to listen for colliding black holes " and the pattern of paradigms exhausting themselves into adjacent instruments is older than physics admits
41+ min ago (182+ words) Two announcements bookend the most recent stretch of the dark-matter hunt, and the order in which they arrived matters. By Space Daily Editorial Team " Editorial process Published May 16, 2026 Equally, LZ is not finished. The collaboration has more exposure to accumulate,…...
Most astronauts who spend more than six months in orbit come home describing the same shift in how they see Earth " and even the ones who were briefed on it in advance say the actual feeling caught them off guard
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Intuitive Machines is buying a global ground-station network for $49. 6 million after landing two probes on their sides " and the sequencing tells you which moats the CLPS contracting model rewards first
1+ hour ago (33+ words) Intuitive Machines is spending $49. 6 million on a global ground-station network before it has soft-landed a probe upright " a sequencing choice that reveals which moats the CLPS contracting model rewards first....
A solar radio burst that should have faded in days kept screaming for three weeks " and the structure feeding it rewrites what counts as a transient event on the Sun
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A trajectory study suggests spacecraft may not need to meet Earth-moon L1 exactly " and that small mathematical shortcut could matter for the next decade of lunar logistics
1+ hour, 7+ min ago (583+ words) By Space Daily Editorial Team " Editorial process Published May 16, 2026 The neatest route to the moon is not always the one that looks neatest on a diagram. For years, trajectory studies have often treated the Earth-moon L1 region as a convenient mathematical…...
Space X is reflying its sixth cargo Dragon while Boeing's crewed Starliner reverts to uncrewed resupply " and the $4. 2 B-versus-$2. 6 B contracts that produced both were signed the same day in 2014
1+ hour, 10+ min ago (485+ words) On May 15, a Falcon 9 lifted off from Florida carrying Dragon capsule C209 toward the International Space Station, with cargo aboard and docking scheduled two days later. By Space Daily Editorial Team " Editorial process Published May 16, 2026 What was not routine was the…...
Quote by Carl Sagan: "Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let them live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another
4+ hour, 22+ min ago (352+ words) By Daniel Moran " Editorial process Published May 16, 2026 The argument is not, on close examination, a sentimental one. The argument is a structural one, and the structure is worth taking seriously. This is the structural argument Sagan is making. The argument…...
NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code in a 1970s-era programming language that almost nobody on Earth fully understands anymore, and the handful of engineers who do are now in their 80s
6+ hour, 18+ min ago (363+ words) By Lachlan Brown " Editorial process Published May 16, 2026 The popular version of this story has hardened into a fixed shape. NASA still runs the Voyagers on software written in a programming language nobody alive can read, kept going by a handful…...
The Katy Perry flight wasn't a vanity project. It was the moment the space industry finally admitted who its real customer is " and the backlash, however satisfying it felt, missed the point entirely.
18+ hour, 52+ min ago (154+ words) On 14 April 2025, six women boarded a Blue Origin New Shepard capsule at Launch Site One in West Texas and rode it past the K'rm'n line for ten minutes and twenty-one seconds. By Kiran Athar " Editorial process Published May 15, 2026 The answer…...
Voyager 1 is still transmitting from beyond the heliosphere on 22 watts " less power than the bulb in your hallway " and the engineers who built it in the 1970s never expected we'd still be listening half a century later.
22+ hour, 6+ min ago (559+ words) By Space Daily Editorial Team " Editorial process Published May 15, 2026 On 17 April 2026, mission engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California sent commands to switch off the Low-energy Charged Particles experiment aboard Voyager 1. The instrument had been operating, almost without interruption,…...