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ConstellationsIn 1946, a captured German V-2 rocket launched from White Sands carried Clyde Holliday’s 35-millimetre DeVry motion-picture camera above the Kármán line and returned the first photographs of Earth from space on film recovered after the rocket crashed in the New Mexico desert Every photograph of Earth ever taken from space, from Apollo 8's Earthrise to Apollo 17's Blue Marble to Voyager 1's Pale Blue Dot… By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 15, 2026

Mind & MeaningThe average human brain now contains roughly a plastic spoon's worth of microplastic particles — about 50 percent more than brains collected in 2016 — according to a February 2025 study in Nature Medicine, meaning the blood-brain barrier, which evolution spent half a billion years building to keep foreign substances out, has quietly turned out to be transparent to a material humans first manufactured in 1907 Hold a single-use plastic spoon in your hand — the kind that comes with takeout food and gets thrown away after one meal. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 15, 2026

Mind & MeaningPeople who began using hearing aids before age 70 reduced their long-term risk of developing dementia by approximately 61 percent — according to a 2025 Framingham Heart Study — yet roughly 60 to 90 percent of adults with hearing loss never wear them, meaning one of the most powerful documented dementia-prevention tools is sitting unused in millions of medicine cabinets. The cheapest piece of equipment that has been shown to substantially reduce a person's lifetime risk of developing dementia is not a medication, a meditation practice, or an exercise routine. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 15, 2026

Moon DailyIn 1972, Apollo 17 carried the only scientist to walk on the Moon into Taurus-Littrow, where a broken rover fender, 741 samples, and orange volcanic glass from 3.64 billion years ago turned the final lunar landing into a geology field trip Apollo 17 was the last time human beings walked on the Moon, but the mission did not behave like an ending. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 15, 2026

Mind & MeaningSeven miles beneath the Pacific Ocean, in the deepest place on Earth, American explorer Victor Vescovo descended in 2019 to a depth where the pressure equals 50 jumbo jets stacked overhead — and at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, where no light has ever reached, he found a plastic bag and several candy wrappers waiting on the seabed. The deepest place on Earth, it turns out, is littered. The dive began at the surface of the western Pacific Ocean, approximately 200 miles… By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 15, 2026