TESS and ASTEP

"Using NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) and Antarctic Search for Transiting ExoPlanets (ASTEP) on the Antarctic Plateau, astronomers have discovered a rare and uniquely weird planetary system."https://www.space.com/astronomy/exoplanets/nasas-tess-spacecraft-discovers-a-weird-system-of-exoplanets-unlike-anything-seen-before?utm_term=1E9CE68B-BB7D-4199-A76E-9D014B1CA562&lrh=64a20f24338333901e4cb7afc40a3cfae56c6770df59fc13cf25a5ce36d78b01&utm_campaign=58E4DE65-C57F-4CD3-9A5A-609994E2C5A9&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BE8C3789-79D9-4F19-8AFD-823EC4DBE5A5&utm_source=SmartBrief

Lyrid meteor shower

"The Lyrid meteor shower put on a spectacular show last night as Earth plunged through the debris stream cast off by comet C/1861 G1 (Thatcher), triggering a peak of activity that saw shooting stars blaze a path away from the blue-white star Vega in the constellation Lyra."https://www.space.com/stargazing/meteor-showers/spectacular-photos-of-the-2026-lyrid-meteor-shower-captured-from-earth-and-space?utm_term=1E9CE68B-BB7D-4199-A76E-9D014B1CA562&lrh=64a20f24338333901e4cb7afc40a3cfae56c6770df59fc13cf25a5ce36d78b01&utm_campaign=58E4DE65-C57F-4CD3-9A5A-609994E2C5A9&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BE8C3789-79D9-4F19-8AFD-823EC4DBE5A5&utm_source=SmartBrief

Buckyballs

"The spectacular birthplace of weird carbon molecules known as "buckyballs" came to light in new imagery of a nebula from the James Webb Space Telescope."https://www.space.com/astronomy/stars/james-webb-space-telescope-peers-into-a-dying-star-surrounded-by-mysterious-buckyballs-the-structures-were-seeing-now-are-breathtaking?utm_term=1E9CE68B-BB7D-4199-A76E-9D014B1CA562&lrh=64a20f24338333901e4cb7afc40a3cfae56c6770df59fc13cf25a5ce36d78b01&utm_campaign=58E4DE65-C57F-4CD3-9A5A-609994E2C5A9&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BE8C3789-79D9-4F19-8AFD-823EC4DBE5A5&utm_source=SmartBrief

Synthetic Universe

"Astronomers say they’ve created an entire synthetic universe which uncannily reproduces the properties of our real one."

https://futurism.com/space/astronomers-create-synthetic-universe

SLS Rocket

"Following NASA’s Artemis II mission successfully splashing down on Earth, engineers started diving into detailed analysis of data to assess how key systems and subsystems on the Orion spacecraft, SLS (Space Launch System) rocket, and systems at the launch pad at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida performed."https://www.nasa.gov/missions/nasa-on-track-for-future-missions-with-initial-artemis-ii-assessments/

Elusive particle

"In 2018, researchers in Japan claimed to find concrete evidence of an elusive particle, a Majorana fermion, in a quantum spin liquid called ruthenium trichloride."https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/04/soundwaves-settle-debate-about-elusive-quantum-particle

Navy Divers Artemis II

"Four U.S. Navy divers were the first faces to greet NASA's Artemis 2 astronauts when they splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after their historic journey around the moon this month."https://www.space.com/space-exploration/artemis/meet-the-us-navy-divers-who-welcomed-the-artemis-2-astronauts-home-from-the-moon