{"id":803279,"date":"2026-08-07T10:04:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T15:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=803279"},"modified":"2026-08-07T10:04:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T15:04:32","slug":"shakeups-and-smash-ups-the-planetary-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=803279","title":{"rendered":"Shakeups and smash-ups | The Planetary Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Help us pause potentially devastating changes to how science gets funded in the U.S.<\/strong> In June, a White House budgeting office proposed a\u00a0major rewrite to government-funded research that would let political appointees decide which grants get approved regardless of their scientific merit. Now, a bill has been introduced in the U.S. Senate that would put those changes on hold.\u00a0Join The Planetary Society in advocating for Congress to pass the bill, which would also fund the government through Dec. 11.\u00a0<i>Image credit: Andy Feliciotti \/ Adobe<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/planetary.s3.amazonaws.com\/assets\/email\/newsletter\/email-tps-logo-small.png\" alt=\"Planetary Society logo bullet\" class=\"inline align-middle h-5 w-5 float-left mr-1 mt-1\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A total solar eclipse is coming to Europe next week.\u00a0<\/strong>Our\u00a0eclipse hub will help you prepare with maps, how-to guides, and useful articles available in English, French, Spanish, and German. Emasof\u00eda Garc\u00eda, an aerospace engineer from Mexico, joined The Planetary Society to break down useful information in\u00a0this Spanish-language video.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/planetary.s3.amazonaws.com\/assets\/email\/newsletter\/email-tps-logo-small.png\" alt=\"Planetary Society logo bullet\" class=\"inline align-middle h-5 w-5 float-left mr-1 mt-1\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Astronomers found evidence that a rocky, habitable zone planet has an atmosphere \u2014 what next?\u00a0<\/strong>On\u00a0this week\u2019s Planetary Radio, join host Sarah Al-Ahmed for a deep dive with Collin Cherubim, NASA Hubble Fellow at the University of Chicago, into his team\u2019s recent discovery of an atmosphere around the planet LHS 1140 b. Together, they explore what this milestone could tell us about how rocky worlds fit into the search for life beyond Earth.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/planetary.s3.amazonaws.com\/assets\/email\/newsletter\/email-tps-logo-small.png\" alt=\"Planetary Society logo bullet\" class=\"inline align-middle h-5 w-5 float-left mr-1 mt-1\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A cosmic timekeeper announces support for The Planetary Society\u2019s mission.\u00a0<\/strong>Earth Moves, a Norway-based astronomical watch designer, unveiled a series of timepieces that reflect the tides, the Moon, and where the wearer is on Earth. The collaboration is\u00a0now available for preorder, and every watch sold helps our movement to advance the scientific exploration of space.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetary.org\/the-downlink\/shakeups-and-smash-ups?rand=772267\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Help us pause potentially devastating changes to how science gets funded in the U.S. In June, a White House budgeting office proposed a\u00a0major rewrite to government-funded research that would let&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":803206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-planetary-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=803279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/803206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=803279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=803279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=803279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}