National Aeronautics and Space Administrion

Since its inception in 1958, NASA has accomplished many great scientific and technological feats in air and space. NASA technology also has been adapted for many nonaerospace uses by the private sector. NASA remains a leading force in scientific research and in stimulating public interest in aerospace exploration, as well as science and technology in general. Perhaps more importantly, our exploration of space has taught us to view Earth, ourselves, and the universe in a new way. While the tremendous technical and scientific accomplishments of NASA demonstrate vividly that humans can achieve previously inconceivable feats, we also are humbled by the realization that Earth is just a tiny "blue marble" in the cosmos. Check out our "Thinking About NASA History" folder online as an introduction to how history can help you.

Saturday, June 21, 2025

Time Three Dimensions

"Time, not space plus time, might be the single fundamental property in which all physical phenomena occur, according to a new theory by a University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist."https://charmingscience.com/new-theory-proposes-time-has-three-dimensions-with-space-as-a-secondary-effect/

Big Bang?

"Everything started with the Big Bang. Most astrophysicists agree that the force generated by the Big Bang continues to push stars, planets, and galaxies apart from each other as our universe expands."

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-big-crunch-theory-is-revived-as-recent-data-shows-our-expanding-universe

Friday, June 20, 2025

Galexy merge

"It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all."https://charmingscience.com/the-milky-way-might-not-crash-into-the-andromeda-galaxy-after-all/

Gravity

"The concept of gravity has long been a challenge for scientists."https://glassalmanac.com/gravity-is-no-longer-fundamental-a-new-quantum-discovery-reveals-that-it-emerges-from-hidden-spacetime-symmetry-principles/#google_vignette

2026 Flight

"In late 2026, a human-made object will reach a full light-day away from the Earth for the first time in human history."https://www.iflscience.com/in-november-2026-a-human-made-object-will-reach-a-light-day-from-earth-for-first-time-in-history-79691

SpaceX Explosion

"In what the company called "a major anomaly" SpaceX's Starship exploded late Wednesday, June 18, shooting a massive fireball and giant debris into the Texas night sky."https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/06/19/spacex-starship-rocket-explodes-texas/84273349007/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

State of Art Telescope

"A state-of-the-art telescope nearly 25 years in the making will finally reveal its first images on Monday, June 23, and you can watch the event in realtime."https://gizmodo.com/a-game-changing-telescope-is-about-to-reveal-its-first-images-heres-how-to-watch-2000617425?utm_source=gizmodo_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2025-06-19-pm

SpaceX Ship36

"SpaceX’s upper stage prototype, designated Ship 36, exploded in southeast Texas shortly before midnight local time on June 18 during routine preparations for an upcoming test flight."https://gizmodo.com/spacex-starship-explodes-in-spectacular-fireball-at-texas-test-facility-2000617926?utm_source=gizmodo_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2025-06-19-pm

Big Bang

"The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe – a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang into existence."https://charmingscience.com/what-if-the-universe-didnt-start-in-the-big-bang-a-new-theory-challenges-the-standard-model/

Hot Gas Linking Clusters

"Astronomers have discovered a vast tendril of hot gas linking four galaxy clusters and stretching out for 23 million light-years, 230 times the length of our galaxy." https://www.space.com/astronomy/astronomers-turn-up-missing-matter-in-the-largest-structures-in-the-cosmos-the-models-were-right

Thursday, June 19, 2025

Teenage Vampire White Dwarf

"Astronomers have discovered the "missing link" connecting the death of sunlike stars to the birth of white dwarf stellar remnants, in the form of a "teenage vampire" white dwarf."https://www.space.com/astronomy/missing-link-star-why-this-teenage-vampire-white-dwarf-has-scientists-so-excited?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=SFMC&utm_campaign=newsletter_20250619_DIGITAL+-+Spacing+Out+-+20250619

Reusable Spacecraft

"Honda successfully conducted a “launch and landing test of an experimental reusable rocket” developed by its research and development subsidiary, the company announced this week."https://www.theverge.com/news/689183/honda-reusable-rocket-successful-launch-test-landing?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

CME

"The images, stitched into a video, show giant CMEs, growing as they travel across the inner solar system."https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/punch/2025/06/10/nasas-punch-releases-its-first-images-of-huge-eruptions-from-sun/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Signs of Universe changes

"A tiny sign revealed in April seemed like it might change the universe as we know it."https://amp-cnn-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/06/06/science/k218b-studies-planet-habitability?amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQGsAEggAID#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17502659977402&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2025%2F06%2F06%2Fscience%2Fk218b-studies-planet-habitability

Voyager 1

"Voyager 1 has been flying through outer space since 1977, so much so that it is currently 24 billion kilometres away from us."https://unionrayo.com/en/voygaer-1-probe-nasa-edge-system/

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Missing Space Matter

"Due to its diffuse nature, roughly half of ordinary matter in the universe went unaccounted for and had been considered "missing"—until now."https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/missing-matter-in-universe-found?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Horseshoe Nebula

"Astronomers have uncovered what may be the heaviest black hole ever directly measured."https://www.earth.com/news/largest-ultramassive-black-hole-ever-seen-cosmic-horseshoe-lrg-3-757/

Monday, June 16, 2025

Leak on ISS

"A leak on a remote outpost orbiting about 250 miles above Earth may sound alarming, but not to worry: The seven astronauts aboard the International Space Station are not in harm's way."https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/06/13/space-station-leak-axiom/84181898007/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Time Machine

"We have long taken it for granted that gravity is one of the basic forces of nature – one of the invisible threads that keeps the universe stitched together."https://charmingscience.com/the-universe-is-suspiciously-like-a-computer-simulation-physicist-says/

Universe Sticking Together

"We have long taken it for granted that gravity is one of the basic forces of nature – one of the invisible threads that keeps the universe stitched together."

https://charmingscience.com/the-universe-is-suspiciously-like-a-computer-simulation-physicist-says/

Teleportation

"Once again, science has surprised us, making reality what we thought was impossible for a long time, something out of a science fiction movie… we’re talking about teleportation."https://www.ecoticias.com/en/experts-achieve-teleportation/15993/#google_vignette

Saturday, June 14, 2025

Merge Uncertainty

"If you had asked any informed astronomer about the fate of our galaxy here in the 21st century, you would have gotten a near-universal story from practically all of them: in about four billion years, the Milky Way would merge with the only galaxy larger than itself in the entire Local Group, Andromeda. Andromeda holds the distinction of being the very first object correctly identified as being outside the Milky Way itself: when Edwin Hubble identified and measured a special class of star (Cepheid variable stars) in Andromeda back in 1923."https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/milky-way-andromeda-merger-uncertain/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=swab

ICRAR

"Astronomers from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), in collaboration with international teams, have made a startling discovery about a new type of cosmic phenomenon."https://charmingscience.com/astronomers-discover-mysterious-object-firing-strange-signals-at-earth-every-44-minutes/

Distant Black Hole

"The sharpest images of the universe are created when radio telescopes around the world work together."https://charmingscience.com/global-resolution-radio-telescope-network-captures-image-of-distant-black-hole-jet/

Earth's Magnetic Field

"Earth's magnetic field and oxygen levels are inextricably linked, new research suggests."https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/scientists-discover-strong-unexpected-link-between-earths-magnetic-field-and-oxygen-levels?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Uranus Discovery

"While Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn have all been known since prehistoric times, it wasn’t until 1781 that humanity discovered Uranus. Just six years later, in 1787, the largest two Uranian moons, Titania and Oberon, were discovered, followed by Ariel and Umbriel in 1851."https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/uranus-moons-darkened-one-side/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=swab

M87

"M87*, a black hole located at the centre of the elliptical galaxy Messier 87."https://unionrayo.com/en/black-hole-detected-m87/#google_vignette

Friday, June 13, 2025

Bright Star

"In late 2019, the previously unremarkable galaxy SDSS1335+0728 suddenly started shining brighter than ever before."https://charmingscience.com/astronomers-see-a-massive-black-hole-awaken-in-real-time/

Thursday, June 12, 2025

Observing Energy

"Here on Earth, if you want to observe particles at the highest possible energies, you have two potential approaches you can choose from."https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=3253406&post_id=165672717&utm_source=post-email-title&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=58s59k&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozMTcwODEwMDAsInBvc3RfaWQiOjE2NTY3MjcxNywiaWF0IjoxNzQ5NjU3OTY3LCJleHAiOjE3NTIyNDk5NjcsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0zMjUzNDA2Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.n9L7SIv_d1SWZbpXTO-ar5tSGIWVsYuQ-OZBP-jI8aQ

Black Holes

"Black holes have captivated the imagination of scientists and the public alike for decades."https://charmingscience.com/einsteins-theory-challenged-black-holes-could-be-frozen-stars-claims-study/

Singularity

"Reports of the singularity's demise may have been premature."

https://www.space.com/astronomy/laws-of-physics-are-still-broken-attempt-to-explain-away-black-holes-central-singularity-falls-short-scientist-says

Voyager

"In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager probes to study the Solar System's edge, and the interstellar medium between the stars."https://www.iflscience.com/nasas-voyager-spacecraft-found-a-30000-50000-kelvin-wall-at-the-edge-of-our-solar-system-79454

Earth based Telescope

"For the first time, scientists have used Earth-based telescopes to peer back into the cosmic dawn — an era more than 13 billion years ago when light from the first stars began reshaping our universe."https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/people-thought-this-couldnt-be-done-scientists-observe-light-of-cosmic-dawn-with-a-ground-based-telescope-for-the-first-time-ever

Strawberry Moon

"A strawberry moon will dazzle skywatchers June 11."https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2025/06/08/strawberry-moon-2025-june-full-moon-viewing-times/84010231007/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

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/

Modern cosmology

"Modern cosmology is stepping into a bold new era."

https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/groundbreaking-new-study-finds-that-dark-energy-doesnt-exist/

Monday, June 9, 2025

Big Bang Explsive

"The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe – a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang into existence."https://charmingscience.com/what-if-the-universe-didnt-start-in-the-big-bang-a-new-theory-challenges-the-standard-model/

Black Holes Fascination

"Humans are quite rightly fascinated by black holes, but could we ever harness them as an energy source?"https://www.space.com/the-universe/black-holes-as-batteries-could-humanity-ever-harness-the-energy-of-these-cosmic-titans

Energy Locked in Space Time

"There may be an infinite amount of energy locked in the vacuum of space-time. So could we ever harness this energy for anything useful?"https://www.space.com/astronomy/theres-an-infinite-amount-of-energy-locked-in-the-vacuum-of-space-time-could-we-ever-use-it

Firefly

"Early Saturday morning, Texas-based Firefly Aerospace made the second private moon landing and the first fully successful private moon landing in history."https://abc13.com/post/texas-makes-history-firefly-aerospace-lands-first-successful-private-moon-mission/15970788/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Moon Sights

"The airless Moon tends to conjure a rather cold, inhospitable image. It’s true that the Moon is physically cold when its surface is enshrouded by the dark of a lunar night: at such times the surface temperature drops to around –153ºC."https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/astrophotography/moon/mare-frigoris?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Private Lunar lander

"A private lunar lander from Japan crashed while attempting a touchdown Friday, the latest casualty in the commercial rush to the moon."https://apnews.com/article/japan-moon-landing-resilience-be77f0a34032ce5a4fc524fe96888bfa?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

WASP 121b

"Observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have provided new clues about how the exoplanet WASP-121b has formed and where it might have originated in the disk of gas and dust around its star. These insights stem from the detection of multiple key molecules: water vapor, carbon monoxide, silicon monoxide, and methane."https://charmingscience.com/webb-reveals-the-origin-of-the-ultra-hot-exoplanet-wasp-121b/

Asteroids threatening Earth

"Twenty years ago, the US Congress instructed NASA to find 90% of near-Earth asteroids threatening Earth."https://charmingscience.com/an-invisible-threat-swarm-of-hidden-city-killer-asteroids-around-venus-could-one-day-collide-with-earth/

Largest Map of Universe

"In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday released the data behind the largest map of the universe."https://charmingscience.com/largest-map-of-the-universe-announced-revealing-800000-galaxies-challenging-early-cosmos-theories/

Sunday, June 8, 2025

Space Time Computers that run on Gravity

"A mathematical test for the nature of space-time – the fabric of physical reality – may be the first step towards novel computer-like devices that process information using gravity."

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2483169-could-we-build-space-time-computers-that-run-on-gravity/

Collision of Galaxies

"It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all."https://charmingscience.com/the-milky-way-might-not-crash-into-the-andromeda-galaxy-after-all/

Friday, June 6, 2025

Song in Space

"Have you ever thought about hearing a song coming directly from space?"https://www.ecoticias.com/en/voyager-1-intercepts-song-in-space/15848/#google_vignette

Star Powered by Dark Matter

"Astronomers have found the strongest evidence yet for the existence of dark stars, a type of enormous star in the early universe that is partially powered by dark matter."https://www.newscientist.com/article/2483302-we-may-have-discovered-the-first-ever-stars-powered-by-dark-matter/

Thursday, June 5, 2025

New Shepherd Flight

"An international crew of four men and two women blasted off and rocketed to the edge of space Saturday, enjoying a few minutes of weightlessness and an out-of-this-world view before plunging back to Earth to wrap up Blue Origin's twelfth New Shepard passenger flight."https://www.cbsnews.com/news/blue-origin-launches-six-passengers-on-sub-orbital-trip-to-the-edge-of-space/?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=ars&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_mailing=ARS_Rocket_060525&utm_medium=email&bxid=5bdce8643f92a434ca85f247&cndid=45206598&hasha=ecc4eb5a460f31b456c54514153c0893&hashb=126020d02221c0fc5a17b7aa92eeaba8b008e1db&hashc=64a20f24338333901e4cb7afc40a3cfae56c6770df59fc13cf25a5ce36d78b01&esrc=bx_multi2nd_orbitalent&utm_term=ARS_RocketReport

Star TOI 6894

"Star TOI-6894 is just like many in our galaxy, a small red dwarf, and only ~20% of the mass of our Sun. Like many small stars, it is not expected to provide suitable conditions for the formation and hosting of a large planet."https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/jun/giant-planet-discovered-orbiting-tiny-star?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Small Binary Stars

"A team of researchers in China have discovered a stunning binary system in which a stellar object known as a pulsar orbited inside the outer layers of its companion star — which it accomplished after stripping its host's innards and dispersing them into space."https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-startled-discovery-small-star-173046443.html

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Ming Dynasty Astronomy

"In October 1408, in Ming Dynasty China, court astronomers recorded a strange celestial event: a bright yellow object, unmoving in the sky, shining steadily for over ten nights."https://gizmodo.com/after-600-years-astronomers-finally-solve-the-mystery-of-the-missing-guest-star-2000610416?utm_source=gizmodo_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2025-06-03-pm

Supermassive blackhole

"A new study from Johns Hopkins University suggests that supermassive black holes—those cosmic behemoths lurking at the centers of galaxies—might already be generating the kinds of high-energy particle collisions researchers have spent decades trying to recreate here on Earth."https://gizmodo.com/physicists-propose-cheaper-alternative-to-particle-colliders-supermassive-black-holes-2000610662?utm_source=gizmodo_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2025-06-03-pm

WASP 121b

"Observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have provided new clues about how the exoplanet WASP-121b has formed and where it might have originated in the disk of gas and dust around its star."https://charmingscience.com/webb-reveals-the-origin-of-the-ultra-hot-exoplanet-wasp-121b/

Andromeda Galaxy

"It may come down to a coin toss as to whether the Milky Way collides with the Andromeda Galaxy within 10 billion years."https://www.sciencenews.org/article/uncertain-milky-way-andromeda-collision?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Monday, June 2, 2025

NASA Cheif

"Jared Isaacman won't be NASA's next chief after all."https://www.space.com/space-exploration/trump-to-withdraw-jared-isaacmans-nomination-as-nasa-chief?utm_term=1E9CE68B-BB7D-4199-A76E-9D014B1CA562&lrh=64a20f24338333901e4cb7afc40a3cfae56c6770df59fc13cf25a5ce36d78b01&utm_campaign=58E4DE65-C57F-4CD3-9A5A-609994E2C5A9&utm_medium=email&utm_content=E68884DB-864B-43EC-8E0A-B64B9E2E74C0&utm_source=SmartBrief

Ispace

"The Japanese company ispace is poised to make a historic moon landing this week."https://www.space.com/astronomy/moon/private-japanese-spacecraft-will-attempt-to-land-in-the-moons-sea-of-cold-this-week?utm_term=1E9CE68B-BB7D-4199-A76E-9D014B1CA562&lrh=64a20f24338333901e4cb7afc40a3cfae56c6770df59fc13cf25a5ce36d78b01&utm_campaign=58E4DE65-C57F-4CD3-9A5A-609994E2C5A9&utm_medium=email&utm_content=E68884DB-864B-43EC-8E0A-B64B9E2E74C0&utm_source=SmartBrief

Northern Lights

"The northern lights could put on yet another impressive show tonight (June 2) as ongoing geomagnetic storm conditions continue to push auroras farther south than usual, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration."https://www.space.com/stargazing/auroras/northern-lights-may-be-visible-in-these-15-us-states-tonight-june-2?utm_term=1E9CE68B-BB7D-4199-A76E-9D014B1CA562&lrh=64a20f24338333901e4cb7afc40a3cfae56c6770df59fc13cf25a5ce36d78b01&utm_campaign=58E4DE65-C57F-4CD3-9A5A-609994E2C5A9&utm_medium=email&utm_content=E68884DB-864B-43EC-8E0A-B64B9E2E74C0&utm_source=SmartBrief

Black Holes

"In the world of black holes, there are generally three size categories: stellar-mass black holes (about five to 50 times the mass of the sun), supermassive black holes (millions to billions of times the mass of the sun), and intermediate-mass black holes with masses somewhere in between."https://as.vanderbilt.edu/news/2025/05/23/scientists-discover-new-evidence-of-intermediate-mass-black-holes/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Sunday, June 1, 2025

Starts with a Bang

"No matter how well we think we understand the Universe, there’s always something new out there to discover."https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/jwst-breaks-record-most-distant-galaxy-mom-z14/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email