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Earth ObservationBeneath the Antarctic ice, a lake the size of Lake Ontario has been sealed off from sunlight for roughly 15 million years, and when Russian drillers finally reached Lake Vostok in 2012 they recovered water teeming with traces of life that had evolved in total darkness. On 5 February 2012, a Russian drill team at Vostok Station punched through the last metres of ice and tapped into a body of water that had been sealed beneath the ice for millions of years. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 16, 2026

Human BehaviourThe single largest political donation in modern US history wasn't a campaign check but a self-built spending machine — America PAC absorbed 239millionaimedatonecandidateElonMuskwiredroughly239 million aimed at one candidate Elon Musk wired roughly 239millionaimedatonecandidateElonMuskwiredroughly239 million into America PAC between July 2024 and Election Day, making it the single largest disclosed political… By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 16, 2026

ConstellationsMars can produce dust storms so vast they swallow the planet. In 2018, one of them turned day into darkness for NASA’s solar-powered Opportunity rover, cutting off the sunlight that had sustained it through more than 14 years on Mars. Mars produces dust storms unlike anything on Earth. The largest of them, called planet-encircling storms, can grow from a regional disturbance to a veil of dust over the entire planet in a matter of weeks. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 16, 2026

Mind & MeaningA mirror does not actually reverse left and right, even though your brain insists it does — it reverses front and back, creating a world where depth is flipped and the familiar face looking back is stranger than it feels Stand in front of a mirror and raise your right hand. The figure in the glass raises a hand on the same side of the room as yours, yet you read it instantly as the left hand of a person facing you. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 16, 2026

PsychologyResearchers identified a personality profile that combines high empathy with high levels of narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy, in a finding that has complicated the standard scientific picture of empathy as an unambiguously prosocial human trait The popular assumption about empathy, repeated across most of contemporary psychology, ethics, education, and public discourse, is that it is one of the unambiguously good human capacities. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 16, 2026