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ScienceThe hundreds of skeletons in a frozen Himalayan lake were blamed on one ancient disaster, until DNA showed some of the dead came from the eastern Mediterranean and died about a thousand years apart Roopkund Lake sits more than 5,000 metres up in the Indian Himalayas, a shallow body of meltwater that stays frozen for much of the year. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 15, 2026

Space IndustryThe International Space Station orbits Earth roughly every 90 minutes, yet for years no American spacecraft could reach it — a gap a single private company stepped in to close On July 8, 2011, Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on STS-135 carrying four astronauts and a logistics module… By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 15, 2026

AerospaceNASA still has no American-built way to reach the International Space Station except SpaceX's Dragon capsule — a dependency that has lasted years and shows no sign of ending soon When Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams finally splashed down off the Florida panhandle in late March 2025 after more than nine months on the International Space Station, they came home inside a SpaceX Crew Dragon. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 15, 2026

Internet SpaceAt a 140,000-square-foot plant in Long Beach that the aerospace industry calls Space Beach, a former Raytheon executive is using agentic AI to turn out defense electronics in weeks instead of years — not to replace his engineers, but because the Pentagon wants far more hardware than the shrinking pool of engineers can build Inside a 140,000-square-foot building in Long Beach that the local aerospace crowd calls Space Beach, circuit boards for spacecraft and… By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 15, 2026

ScienceAn asteroid long thought to be a chunk of the Moon may be ordinary space rock instead, a new study finds, as China's Tianwen-2 circles it to grab a sample For five years, the leading story about Kamoʻoalewa, a small asteroid that travels alongside Earth, was that it might be a stray piece of the Moon. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 15, 2026