India Blount

3I/ATLAS, Discovered In July 2025, Is The 3rd Confirmed Interstellar Comet (IC) After ‘Oumuamua & Borisov. In 2026, NASA‘s Swift Detected OH Gas (Sign Of Water) Outgassing At ~40 Kg/Sec While It Was Unusually Far, ~3.5 AU, From The Sun. It’s The First Direct Water Detection From An IC, Showing Other Star Systems Host Water-Rich Icy Bodies.

…

Astronomers Discovered The Most Distant Supernova Ever Observed, Exploding When The Universe Was Only ~730 Myrs Old (Z≈7.3). First Detected Via A Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 250314A By The SVOM Satellite On 3/14/25, It Was Later Confirmed By JWST, Shedding Light On How Early Massive Stars Formed And Died. Findings Were Announced In December 2025.

…

Comet 3I/ATLAS, Spotted By ATLAS In Chile, Is The Fastest Comet Ever At 130k Mph. Likely From A Distant Solar System, Its Speed Comes From Billions Of Years Of Gravitational Slingshots. Hubble Showed Its 1k Ft To 3.5-Mile-Wide Icy Core & Dust Tail. Nearing The Sun By 10/25, It May Disintegrate Or Survive/Speed Up; Its Fate Will Be Clear By 12/25.

NWA-16788, The Largest Mars Meteorite Found On Earth, Weighs 24.67 Kg—70% More Than 2021’s Taoudenni 002 (14.51 Kg, Mali). Discovered In Niger’s Sahara In Nov 2023 & Confirmed By The Shanghai Astronomy Museum, It Shows Little Weathering & Contains Maskelynite, Pyroxene, And Olivine. Sotheby’s Will Auction It On 7/16/25, With Bids Up To $4M.

…

JWST, For The First Time, Detected Water Ice In The Planet-Forming Disk Of A Young (23-Myr-Old) Sun-Like Star, HD 181327, 155 Ly Away. Ice Was Found Concentrated In The Outer Disk, Like In Our Kuiper Belt. This Finding Supports Theories That Comets & Asteroids Brought Water To Inner Planets, As In Earth‘s Late Heavy Bombardment 4 Byrs Ago.

…

New Simulations Show The Milky Way And Andromeda Collision Is Unlikely Soon—Only A 2% Chance In 5B Yrs. Despite Moving At 62 mi/s, A Full Merger May Take 8–10B Yrs. Close Passes Are More Likely. Added Variables Like The Large Magellanic Cloud Altered Earlier Predictions. But The Earth May Be Gone By The Time Of Merger, Consumed By The Sun.

…

UMa3/U1, 20 Ly Wide With ~60 Stars And 16 Solar Masses, May Be The Smallest Dark-Matter Galaxy Or An 11B-Yr-Old Star Cluster; Dynamics Suggest The Latter, Pending Future Data. Meanwhile, Andromeda XXXV, 3M Ly From Earth, & A Satellite Of Andromeda Galaxy, Is Confirmed As The Smallest Known Dwarf Galaxy, Defying Early-Universe Destruction.

…

Mt. Chimborazo In Ecuador, Standing At 20,548 Ft Above MSL, Is The Closest Point On Earth To The Stars, Being 6,800 Ft Farther From Earth’s Center Than Mt. Everest. Chimborazo’s Unique Location, 1.5 Deg South Of The Equator Where The Earth Bulges, Makes It Taller From Earth’s Core. Unlike Everest’s ~2-Month Climb, Chimborazo Takes ~2 Days.

…

New Research Suggests That Carbon & Oxygen, Vital For Life, Traveled Outside Our Galaxy Before Forming Us. Dispersed By Supernovae, These Elements Move Via Cosmic Currents Called The ‘circumgalactic Medium,’ Circulating In And Out Of Galaxies, Aiding New Star And Planet Formation. This Implies Our Bodies Are Made Of Intergalactic Travelers.

…

Scientists Discovered A Huge Water Reservoir, 3x Earth’s Oceans, 700 Km Deep Within The Mantle In The Rock Ringwoodite. This Find Challenges Theories On Earth’s Water Origin, Suggesting Possibly Internal Rather Than From Comets. Seismic Data Reveals This Underground Ocean, Potentially Reshaping Our Understanding Of The Planet’s Water Cycle.

…