It’s the kind of week where we feel the need to put joy into the world, and we’ve made the decision to just find stories to bring a smile and share them with you.

It’s the kind of week where we feel the need to put joy into the world, and we’ve made the decision to just find stories to bring a smile and share them with you.
Two new papers examine how the Milky Way galaxy was formed and how it evolved. Plus, we take a look at stories on the prospects for life elsewhere in the cosmos.
The biggest mass extinction event on Earth occurred at the end of the Permian period. Now, scientists have found that the terrestrial portion of the event lasted nearly ten times as long as the ocean version.
This week we take a loot at Dark Comets, Io’s gooey mantle, the colonization of a Ryugu sample, galaxies growing too fast too early, and more.
Over tens of millions of years, Europa has been churned by impacts to the depth of 30 cm & the search for biosignatures must below that zone.
Astronomers will have a chance to observe a rare trans-Neptunian object from up close when 2014 UN271 make a close pass to Saturn’s orbit at the end of the decade
Stellar occultation when Pluto passed in front of a distant star gives info that Pluto’s atmosphere is freezing