Planet 9

"A team of astronomers poring through old astronomical data may have seen a candidate for the elusive Planet Nine – a hypothetical ninth planet in the Solar System, far beyond the orbit of Neptune."https://www.iflscience.com/astronomers-find-potential-candidate-for-planet-nine-in-40-year-old-data-78985?utm_source=The+IFLScience+Newsletter&utm_campaign=e6a0460530-ICYMI-30-4-25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c13f3c4e60-272567312&goal=0_3aa1738e2a-e6a0460530-272567312&mc_cid=e6a0460530&mc_eid=561ee916fc

Space News

"A report published Tuesday raises serious questions about NASA’s ability to effectively function as the nation’s preeminent space agency."https://www.astronomy.com/space-exploration/shortsighted-aging-nasa-faces-uncertain-future-says-report-to-congress/

Weirdest Planetary System

"Scientists have perhaps discovered the weirdest planetary system ever seen."https://www.space.com/the-universe/exoplanets/scientists-discover-bizarre-double-star-system-with-exoplanet-on-a-sideways-orbit-video?user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Ganymede

"Jupiter’s moon Ganymede may have shifted on its axis when a massive asteroid smashed into it about 4 billion years ago, according to a new study."https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/09/05/science/ganymede-asteroid-impact

Astronomy Photographer

"Now in its 16th year, Astronomy Photographer of the Year attracts thousands of entries annually from the best space photographers around the globe."https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/astronomy-photographer-year/galleries/2024-shortlist?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

SpaceX

"SpaceX's all-civilian Polaris Dawn mission has pulled off an incredible feat: the first-ever commercial spacewalk."https://www.yahoo.com/news/spacex-drains-air-spacecraft-while-141029961.html

Curiosity Mars Rover

"New findings from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover could provide an answer to the mystery of what happened to the planet’s ancient atmosphere and how Mars has evolved over time."https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-curiosity-rover-may-have-solved-mars-missing-carbonate-mystery/?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1-nasajpl&utm_content=Latest20250417-Curiosity

NGC 1514

"Gas and dust ejected by a dying star at the heart of NGC 1514 came into complete focus thanks to mid-infrared data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope."https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/with-nasas-webb-dying-stars-energetic-display-comes-into-full-focus/?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1-nasajpl&utm_content=webb20250414

Perseverance Rover

"Scientists with NASA’s Perseverance rover are exploring what they consider a veritable Martian cornucopia full of intriguing rocky outcrops on the rim of Jezero Crater."https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-perseverance-mars-rover-studies-trove-of-rocks-on-crater-rim/?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1-nasajpl&utm_content=percy20250410

James Webb Telescope Twist

"Observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have provided a surprising twist in the narrative surrounding what is believed to be the first star observed in the act of swallowing a planet."https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-webbs-autopsy-of-planet-swallowed-by-star-yields-surprise/?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1-nasajpl&utm_content=webb20250410

29th Annual Webby Awards

"NASA was recognized today by the 29th Annual Webby Awards with six Webby Awards and six Webby People’s Voice Awards, the latter of which are awarded by the voting public."https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-wins-6-webby-awards-6-webby-peoples-voice-awards/?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1-nasajpl&utm_content=webby20250422

MIT Astronomers

"MIT astronomers have discovered a planet some 140 light-years from Earth that is rapidly crumbling to pieces."https://news.mit.edu/2025/astronomers-discover-planet-thats-rapidly-disintegrating-producing-comet-tail-0422?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Perseids

"The Perseids, considered among astronomers to be the best meteor shower of the year, reached peak activity Sunday night."https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2024/08/12/perseid-meteor-shower-northern-lights-photos/74764377007/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

UAH

"Dr. Richard Lieu, a physics professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has published a new paper in Classical and Quantum Gravity that offers an alternative explanation for the expansion of the universe. Instead of a single Big Bang, his model proposes that the cosmos evolves through a series of discrete events called “temporal singularities” — brief, universe-wide bursts of energy and matter."https://scitechdaily.com/no-big-bang-a-theory-of-repeating-bursts-could-explain-everything/

Northrop Gruman

"Northrop Grumman has written a new line in the history books, the company's Mission Extension Vehicle 1 (MEV-1) executing the first undocking of two commercial satellites in geosynchronous earth orbit (GEO) – heralding a new age of commercial space operations."

https://newatlas.com/space/mev-1-service-spacecraft-undocking/?utm_source=New+Atlas+Subscribers&utm_campaign=e1dc79fab0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_04_21_11_50&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-e1dc79fab0-93027845

Lucy

"NASA’s Lucy spacecraft had its second rendezvous with an asteroid over the weekend, this time with the uniquely named Donaldjohanson space rock."https://www.popsci.com/science/lucy-donaldjohanson-asteroid/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Mortal

"Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day, but when I follow the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth; I ascend to Zeus himself to feast me on ambrosia, the food of the gods."

Ptolemy, Astronomer

Dark Matter Research

"When it comes to research into the universe, few ideas get as much attention as dark matter."https://twistedsifter.com/2024/09/scientists-researching-dark-matter-may-have-found-evidence-of-a-new-type-of-particle/#google_vignette

Commercial Spaceflight

"Commercial spaceflight is no longer just a dream."https://facts.net/tech-and-sciences/30-facts-about-commercial-spaceflight/?utm_source=grow&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=automailer&utm_content=rec

Unfixed Time

"What if time is not as fixed as we thought?"https://charmingscience.com/time-can-move-both-forwards-and-backwards-at-the-quantum-scale/

Cambridge and James Webb Telescope

"Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the astronomers, led by the University of Cambridge, have detected the chemical fingerprints of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and/or dimethyl disulfide (DMDS), in the atmosphere of the exoplanet K2-18b, which orbits its star in the habitable zone."https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/strongest-hints-of-biological-activity?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Oxford Water

"A team of researchers at the University of Oxford have uncovered crucial evidence for the origin of water on Earth."https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250416135918.htm?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Changing Views

"NASA's Perseverance rover is reveling in a scientific bonanza on Mars after finding a diverse array of rocks that are providing eager scientists a glimpse into the planet's ancient history."https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/james-webb-telescope-spots-milky-ways-long-lost-twin-and-it-is-fundamentally-changing-our-view-of-the-early-universe?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Quantum Sensor

"Researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, private companies, and academic institutions are developing the first space-based quantum sensor for measuring gravity."https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-aims-to-fly-first-quantum-sensor-for-gravity-measurements/?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1-nasajpl&utm_content=tech20250415

Tally of Normal Matter

"Astronomers tallying up all the normal matter — stars, galaxies and gas — in the universe today have come up embarrassingly short of the total matter  produced in the Big Bang 13.6 billion years ago."

https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/04/11/half-of-the-universes-hydrogen-gas-long-unaccounted-for-has-been-found/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Mercury’s temperature

"Mercury’s temperature varies from -280° F on its night side to 800° F during the day."https://www.astronomy.com/astronomy-for-beginners/20-unusual-space-facts/

Cubic millimetre

"A cubic millimetre might not sound like much — roughly the size of a grain of sand — but to neuroscientists, it is enormous."https://www.nature.com/immersive/d42859-025-00001-w/index.html?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Moon Distance

"It would take nine years to walk to the moon."

https://www.astronomy.com/astronomy-for-beginners/20-unusual-space-facts/

James Webb Telescope

"Observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have provided a surprising twist in the narrative surrounding what is believed to be the first star observed in the act of swallowing a planet."https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasa-webbs-autopsy-of-planet-swallowed-by-star-yields-surprise/?user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Multiversal Travel

"While many sci-fi writers have wondered if time travel into the past can be allowed as long as you slip into an alternate universe, you should be warned: Nature doesn’t like a cheater."

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/how-does-multiverse-theory-relate-to-time-travel

Blue Origins

"Blue Origin's first-ever all-female spaceflight is scheduled to launch on Monday (April 14)."

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/private-spaceflight/meet-the-crew-for-blue-origins-upcoming-all-female-spaceflight-with-katy-perry?user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Orbital Prototype

"On April 23, NASA launched a solar sail protype to orbit around our planet — a piece of technology that could very well revolutionize the way we think about spacecraft propulsion."

https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/nasa-spacecraft-captures-1st-photo-of-its-giant-solar-sail-while-tumbling-in-space

Mars Clear Views

"NASA has released the clearest view of Mars to date, with blue rocks observed across the planet's landscape."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxnews.com/science/nasa-releases-clearest-view-mars-blue-rocks-seen-landscape.amp

First Contact Day

"First Contact Day on April 5th commemorates a fictional date in the future when an alien species visits Earth and makes contact with Earthlings for the first time."https://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day/first-contact-day-april-5?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=13087594&hashed_email=6c23328441e0f46865e8039a24ce7ccf8880f2d7&email=yeremiah%40aol.com

Mercury Days

"On Mercury a day is twice as long as a year."

https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/facts-about-astronomy-space

Parker Space Probe

"On September 30, 2024, the Parker Solar Probe reached its 21st perihelion: its closest approach to the Sun."https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/fastest-spacecraft-break-speed-record/

JWST

"Astronomers have directed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy."https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-webb-peers-into-the-extreme-outer-galaxy?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nasajpl&utm_content=webb20240912

4 Ametuer astronauts

"Four amateur astronauts are about to venture where no other crew has gone before, orbiting Earth’s polar region to better understand how humans fare in space."https://gizmodo.com/watch-live-as-spacex-launches-private-crew-to-elusive-polar-orbit-2000583050?utm_source=gizmodo_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2025-03-31-pm

Mars Rover

"Nasa’s Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet."https://theconversation.com/nasas-curiosity-rover-has-found-the-longest-chain-carbon-molecules-yet-on-mars-its-a-significant-finding-in-the-search-for-alien-life-253249?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4