Black Holes

"Researchers at Durham and collaborators in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) mission have proposed a bold new theory that black holes could be converting matter into dark energy."https://charmingscience.com/black-holes-may-be-the-engines-driving-the-universes-dark-energy/

JWST newfound moon

"Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a newfound moon orbiting icy Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun."https://www.space.com/astronomy/uranus/scientists-find-tiny-new-moon-around-uranus-with-the-james-webb-space-telescope-photos-video?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=SFMC&utm_campaign=newsletter_20250821_DIGITAL+-+Spacing+Out+-+20250821

Dark Matter

"Two recent studies by Professor Stefano Profumo at the University of California, Santa Cruz, propose theories that attempt to answer one of the most fundamental open questions in modern physics: What is the particle nature of dark matter?"https://phys.org/news/2025-08-theories-dark-mirror-world-universe.html

Solar Eclipse

"During a solar eclipse, astronomers who study heliophysics are able to study the sun's corona—its outer atmosphere—in ways they are unable to do at any other time."https://phys.org/news/2025-08-spacecraft-fly-precisely-line-imitate.html

Quantum Entanglement

"A joint research team from Japan has observed "heavy fermions," electrons with dramatically enhanced mass, exhibiting quantum entanglement governed by the Planckian time—the fundamental unit of time in quantum mechanics."https://phys.org/news/2025-08-heavy-fermions-entangled-discovery-planckian.html#google_vignette

10 Billion years

"A new paper has predicted that the universe's expected lifespan is drastically shorter than once thought — and that the cosmos will start to die in just 10 billion years."https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/the-universe-may-start-dying-in-just-10-billion-years-alarming-new-model-predicts

Minister of Science

"On Wednesday (July 23), Diana Morant, the Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities in Spain, announced the Spanish government will offer a maximum of 400 million euros ($471 million) to save the Thirty Meter Telescope — a massive astronomy observation facility facing possible cancellation due to budget constraints in the U.S."https://www.space.com/astronomy/spain-offers-400-million-euros-to-revive-thirty-meter-telescope-as-trump-suggests-cancelling-project?utm_source=join1440&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Massive Black Hole

"Astronomers have discovered potentially the most massive black hole ever detected."https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/most-massive-black-hole-ever-discovered-detected?user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Insight on Reality

"In June, at a conference set in the picturesque Italian town of Campagna, south-east of Naples, two physicists in a seemingly endless argument over a long-sought theory of fundamental reality caught my attention."https://www.newscientist.com/article/2491566-physicist-frank-wilczeks-unique-insights-on-the-nature-of-reality/

Alopeke Instrument

"Using the ‘Alopeke instrument on the Gemini North telescope—funded by NASA and the U.S. National Science Foundation—astronomers have identified a companion star in a very close orbit around Betelgeuse."https://scitechdaily.com/after-decades-of-searching-astronomers-finally-spot-betelgeuses-elusive-companion-star/

Wladimir Lyra

"Wladimir Lyra, an astronomer at New Mexico State University, has identified a gap in planet sizes during his space research, which may offer insights into how planets form and the universe's origins."https://www.koat.com/article/space-astronomy-planet-sizes-research-new-mexico/65831993

Quantum Device

"A single quantum device could define all three units we use to understand electricity."https://www.newscientist.com/article/2492734-quantum-device-detects-all-units-of-electricity-at-once/?utm_source=nsnew&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nsnew_210825&utm_term=Newsletter%20NSNEW_Weekly

Ceres

"The dwarf planet is cold now, but new research paints a picture of Ceres hosting a deep, long-lived energy source that may have maintained habitable conditions in the past."https://www.nasa.gov/missions/dawn/nasa-ceres-may-have-had-long-standing-energy-to-fuel-habitability/

Supermassive blackhole

"An international team of astronomers led by Matus Rybak (Leiden University, Netherlands) has proven, thanks to accidental double zoom, that millimeter radiation is generated close to the core of a supermassive black hole."https://phys.org/news/2025-08-accidental-reveals-millimeter-supermassive-black.html

Lunar Trailblazer

"The Lunar Trailblazer mission to the moon officially ended on July 31, but it wasn't a complete journey."https://www.engadget.com/science/space/nasas-lunar-trailblazer-mission-ends-in-disappointment-201318932.html

Korea Research

"The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science has developed a cutting-edge system for measuring length with a level of precision that comes remarkably close to the fundamental quantum limit."https://scitechdaily.com/quantum-leap-in-measurement-new-system-nears-the-theoretical-limit-of-physics/

Quantum Device

"A single quantum device could define all three units we use to understand electricity."https://www.newscientist.com/article/2492734-quantum-device-detects-all-units-of-electricity-at-once/

NASA nuclear power plant

"The U.S. should deploy a small nuclear power plant to the surface of the moon before China and Russia are able to do so, the interim head of NASA has told the space agency’s staff."https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/05/nasa-under-trump-aims-to-build-nuclear-reactor-on-moon-before-china-and-russia.html?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Most Distant Black Hole

"An international team of astronomers, led by The University of Texas at Austin's Cosmic Frontier Center, has identified the most distant black hole ever confirmed."https://phys.org/news/2025-08-universe-earliest-black-hole-monster.html#google_vignette

Cosmic Dance

"A cosmic dance could be the future of the Milky Way as it tracks a course to collide with neighboring galaxies, a University of Queensland survey has found."https://phys.org/news/2025-08-dwarf-galaxies-milky-future.html#google_vignette

Coral-like Rock on Mars

"NASA has captured an image of a coral-like rock on Mars estimated to be several billions of years old."https://abcnews.go.com/US/nasa-finds-coral-shaped-rock-mars-billions-years/story?id=124480564?utm_source%3Djoin1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Giant Hole

"Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than in neighboring regions of the universe, astronomers say."https://charmingscience.com/the-sound-of-the-big-bang-hints-that-earth-may-sit-in-a-cosmic-void-2-billion-light-years-wide/

Gigantic magnetic field

"Physicists from the University of Copenhagen have begun using the gigantic magnetic fields of galaxy clusters to observe distant black holes in their search for an elusive particle that has stumped scientists for decades."https://charmingscience.com/researchers-hunt-for-mysterious-dark-matter-particle-with-clever-new-trick/

31/ATLAS

"Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS — which is zooming through our inner solar system — appears to be emitting its own light, according to Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb."https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/world-news/interstellar-object-3i-atlas-appears-to-emit-its-own-light-harvard-scientist/

Benoit B. Mandelbrot

"In a 1975 book, the Polish-French-American mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot coined the term to describe a family of rough, fragmented shapes that fall outside the boundaries of conventional geometry."https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fractals-math-science-society-50-years

Starlink

"Starlink operator SpaceX is continuing its fight against state plans to expand fiber broadband availability."https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/starlink-keeps-trying-to-block-fiber-deployment-says-us-must-nix-louisiana-plan/?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=ars&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_mailing=Ars_Daily_082025&utm_medium=email&bxid=5bdce8643f92a434ca85f247&cndid=45206598&hasha=ecc4eb5a460f31b456c54514153c0893&hashb=126020d02221c0fc5a17b7aa92eeaba8b008e1db&hashc=64a20f24338333901e4cb7afc40a3cfae56c6770df59fc13cf25a5ce36d78b01&esrc=ars_prefs&utm_content=Final&utm_term=ARS_DailyDigest

SwRI

"Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a team led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has identified a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus, expanding the planet’s known satellite family to 29."https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/webb/2025/08/19/new-moon-discovered-orbiting-uranus-using-nasas-webb-telescope/

Dying Star

"For the first time, scientists have directly tracked the slow transformation of a dying star over more than a century—revealing it is heating up faster than any other typical star ever observed."https://charmingscience.com/astronomers-capture-a-record-130-year-evolution-of-a-dying-star/

Microgravity

"To explore how 3D bioprinted liver tissue constructs complete with vascular channels behave in microgravity

The condition of perceived weightlessness created when an object is in free fall, for example when an object is in orbital motion. Microgravity alters many observable phenomena within the physical and life sciences, allowing scientists to study things in ways not possible on Earth. The International Space Station provides access to a persistent microgravity environment., the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) is sending an investigation to the International Space Station (ISSInternational Space Station)."https://issnationallab.org/press-releases/iss-national-lab-sponsored-experiment-tests-3d-bioprinted-tissue-for-growing-artificial-livers/

SwRI

"Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a team led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has identified a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus, expanding the planet’s known satellite family to 29. The detection was made during a Webb observation Feb. 2, 2025."https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/webb/2025/08/19/new-moon-discovered-orbiting-uranus-using-nasas-webb-telescope/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Viking 1

"The first spacecraft to successfully land on Mars, Viking 1 was part of a two-part mission to investigate the Red Planet and search for signs of life."https://science.nasa.gov/mission/viking/?utm_source=1440-st&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=view-content-pr&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Life on Planets

"Ask most anyone whether life exists on other planets and moons, and the answer you’ll get is a confident “yes!” Going back decades (and in many ways generations), we’ve been introduced to a menagerie of extraterrestrials good and bad."https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/about/?utm_source=1440-st&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=view-content-pr&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

James Webb Telescope

"The James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST for short, is one of the most advanced telescopes ever built."https://umbc.edu/stories/could-a-telescope-ever-see-the-beginning-of-time/?user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4&utm_source=1440-st&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=view-content-pr

ISOs

"In the past decade, astronomers have witnessed three interstellar objects (ISOs) passing through the Solar System. This included the enigmatic 'Oumuamua in 2017, the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov in 2019, and 3I/ATLAS in July 2025."https://www.universetoday.com/articles/where-are-the-interstellar-objects-1ioumuamua-2iborisov-and-3iatlas-headed-now

Solar Masses Heavy Black Hole

"Within practically every modern galaxy, a central supermassive black hole can be found. Our own Milky Way houses Sagittarius A*, which weighs in at just over 4 million solar masses."https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/36-billion-solar-masses-heaviest-black-hole/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=swab

Dormant Galaxies

"Astronomers have discovered over a dozen "dormant" galaxies that paused their star formation within the first billion years after the Big Bang."https://www.space.com/astronomy/james-webb-space-telescope/james-webb-telescope-reveals-sleeping-beauty-galaxies-in-the-early-universe-snoozing-where-they-werent-supposed-to-exist

Great Red Spot

"The Great Red Spot is an anticyclone, a long-lasting area of high pressure on Jupiter creating a persistent storm."https://www.space.com/jupiter-great-red-spot.html?utm_source=1440-st&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=view-content-pr&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Jupiter’s Moons

"Jupiter has 95 moons that have been officially recognized by the International Astronomical Union."https://science.nasa.gov/jupiter/jupiter-moons/?utm_source=1440-st&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=view-content-pr&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

31/ATLAS

"3I/ATLAS, our third discovered interstellar visitor, has been in the news a lot lately for a whole host of reasons, and rightly so given the amount of unique scientific data different groups and telescopes have been collecting off of it."https://www.universetoday.com/articles/3iatlas-is-very-actively-releasing-water

TRAPPIST-1 d

"The exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d intrigues astronomers looking for possibly habitable worlds beyond our solar system because it is similar in size to Earth, rocky, and resides in an area around its star where liquid water on its surface is theoretically possible."https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/webb-narrows-atmospheric-possibilities-for-earth-sized-exoplanet-trappist-1-d/

Galaxy Clusters

"Physicists from the University of Copenhagen have begun using the gigantic magnetic fields of galaxy clusters to observe distant black holes in their search for an elusive particle that has stumped scientists for decades."https://charmingscience.com/researchers-hunt-for-mysterious-dark-matter-particle-with-clever-new-trick/

SpaceX

"SpaceX is continuing with final preparations for the 10th full-scale test flight of the company's enormous Starship rocket after receiving launch approval Friday from the Federal Aviation Administration."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/08/spacex-reveals-why-the-last-two-starships-failed-as-another-launch-draws-near/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Mars and Earth

"Despite being thinner and drier than Earth’s atmosphere, Mars’s atmosphere contains clouds composed of tiny water ice crystals."https://charmingscience.com/hope-probe-reveals-first-complete-picture-of-nighttime-clouds-on-mars/

Black Holes

"If you ever wondered what would happen if you were to throw a black hole at a star, well astronomers now have an answer: it goes "boom" in a truly distinctive way."https://www.iflscience.com/a-black-hole-hitting-a-star-created-a-never-before-seen-supernova-80403

Niels Bohr Institute

"Scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have discovered a new approach for investigating rare quantum states that occur within superconducting vortices."https://scitechdaily.com/quantum-breakthrough-scientists-find-backdoor-to-60-year-old-superconducting-mystery/

Conservation Laws

"Conservation laws are the heart of our natural scientific understanding as they govern which processes are allowed or forbidden. A simple example is that of colliding billiard balls, where the motion - and with it, their linear momentum - is transferred from one ball to another."https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/08/250816113515.htm

Mars Life

"Here on Earth, in Review of Scientific Instruments, by AIP Publishing, researchers from Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology used a technique called optical photothermal infrared spectroscopy (O-PTIR) to study a visually similar rock. They wanted to determine if O-PTIR can be applied to the Sapphire Canyon sample when it is eventually brought here for study."https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/08/250814094626.htm?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4#google_vignette

Difficult to reach Orbits

"NASA is asking six companies to help the agency move spacecraft between difficult-to-reach orbits."https://www.space.com/technology/nasa-wants-new-spacecraft-to-fly-to-hard-to-reach-orbits-around-earth-and-in-deep-space

Quantum Electricity

"We can now detect single electrons with the resolution of a few trillionths of a second, and this could prove essential for building a new generation of quantum electronic devices."https://www.newscientist.com/article/2492571-we-have-detected-a-single-electron-with-unprecedented-speed/

James Lovell

"James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97."https://apnews.com/article/james-lovell-dies-obituary-apollo-13-astronaut-ed08c1efc0a74fbd9d47868ff9983a23

Space Toll on Body

"Space travel takes quite a toll on the human body."https://www.universetoday.com/articles/astronauts-hearts-stay-healthy-years-after-space-missions

Ocean

"Just as ocean waves shape our shores, ripples in space-time may have once set the Universe on an evolutionary path that led to the cosmos as we see it today."https://www.sciencealert.com/wild-new-theory-suggests-gravitational-waves-shaped-the-universe

HWO

"HWO is a large infrared/optical/ultraviolet space telescope recommended by the National Academies’ Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s."https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/programs/habitable-worlds-observatory/

Life

"Here in our own cosmic backyard, we’ve uncovered a tremendous amount of information about the Universe, discovering many fantastic facts and properties about reality that our long-ago ancestors could scarcely fathom."https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/5-questions-origin-of-life/

Signal Mimick Black Hole

"Exotic viscous stars could reflect ripples of space-time, mimicking the signals we observe from black holes."https://www.newscientist.com/article/2491843-oddly-viscous-stars-could-be-impersonating-black-holes/

JWST Giant Planet

"There might be a huge planet lurking near one of the closest stars to Earth."https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/the-most-significant-jwst-finding-to-date-james-webb-spots-then-loses-a-giant-planet-orbiting-in-the-habitable-zone-of-our-closest-sun-like-star

Quantum Mechanics 100th Birthday

"“Happy 100th birthday, quantum mechanics!” a physicist bellowed into a microphone one evening in June, and the cavernous banquet hall of Hamburg’s Hotel Atlantic erupted into cheers and applause."https://www.quantamagazine.org/its-a-mess-a-brain-bending-trip-to-quantum-theorys-100th-birthday-party-20250808/

K2-18b

"There was definitely one space story that stood out from all the rest this week, the tale of the Webb Telescope’s hunt into the atmosphere of the exoplanet K2-18b for gases that could serve as possible biosignatures. It was picked up by every news-y outlet from my usual space news sites to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert."https://www.mos.org/article/k2-18b-redux

Perseverance Imaging

"The imaging team of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took advantage of clear skies on the Red Planet to capture one of the sharpest panoramas of its mission so far."https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-perseverance-rover-captures-mars-vista-as-clear-as-day/?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1-nasajpl&utm_content=perseverance20250806

Mass

"The regular matter that makes us, planets, stars, and galaxies is about 5 percent of the matter-energy content of the universe."https://www.iflscience.com/missing-40-percent-of-matter-in-the-universe-finally-discovered-the-simulations-were-right-all-along-80125?utm_source=The+IFLScience+Newsletter&utm_campaign=417542e058-ICYMI-MONTHLY-5-8-25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c13f3c4e60-272567312&goal=0_3aa1738e2a-417542e058-272567312&mc_cid=417542e058&mc_eid=561ee916fc

Planet on outer reaches

"Is there a massive undiscovered planet on the outer reaches of the solar system?"https://phys-org.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/phys.org/news/2025-07-planet-massive-edge-solar.amp?amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQGsAEggAID#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17538960386716&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fphys.org%2Fnews%2F2025-07-planet-massive-edge-solar.html

Quantum Mechanics

"Quantum mechanics is the field of physics that explains how extremely small objects simultaneously have the characteristics of both particles (tiny pieces of matter) and waves (a disturbance or variation that transfers energy). Physicists call this the “wave-particle duality.”"https://www.energy.gov/science/doe-explainsquantum-mechanics?utm_source=1440-st&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=view-content-pr&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Lurking Planet

"Astronomers discovered a new rogue planet lurking in archival data gathered by the Hubble Space Telescope, and the find is thanks to a little serendipity — and a little help from the genius himself, Albert Einstein."

https://www.space.com/astronomy/exoplanets/hubble-space-telescope-spots-rogue-planet-with-a-little-help-from-einstein-it-was-a-lucky-break

Big Bang

"Shortly after the Big Bang, which took place around 13.8 billion years ago, the universe was a seething, dense expanse of extreme heat."https://scitechdaily.com/solving-a-13-billion-year-old-mystery-scientists-recreate-the-universes-first-chemical-reaction/

Hubble Images

"This image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope revisits one of the most iconic regions of the sky, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, through the eyes of two of Webb's instruments."

https://phys.org/news/2025-08-image-webb-fresh-classic-deep.html

Quantum Computer

"As researchers work to make quantum computers and networks more practical, photons—the basic particles that make up light—are emerging as promising candidates for moving information quickly, even at room temperature."https://scitechdaily.com/harvard-just-collapsed-a-quantum-computer-onto-a-chip/

Chandra Images

"This new collection of images from NASA's Chandra space telescope — which launched in 1999 — shows what different objects in space look like with an added layer of X-ray vision."

https://www.livescience.com/space/nasa-unveils-9-stunning-snapshots-of-the-cosmos-in-x-ray-vision-space-photo-of-the-week

Stars

"Most stars throughout the Universe are part of binary or multiple star systems."

https://scitechdaily.com/it-shouldnt-exist-astronomers-discover-a-planet-orbiting-the-wrong-way/

Speeding Particles

"A beam of particles speeding away from the vicinity of a monstrous black hole has been found to be severely kinked, providing compelling evidence that the black hole is actually part of the most extreme binary system known."https://www.space.com/astronomy/black-holes/exotic-blazar-is-part-of-most-extreme-double-black-hole-system-ever-found-crooked-jet-suggests

Non Living Matter

"A new study published in July 2025 tackles one of science's most profound mysteries - how did life first emerge from non living matter on early Earth?"https://www.universetoday.com/articles/what-were-the-chances-of-abiogenesis