Venus will be prominent in the west-northwest soon after sunset through April, and the Lyrid meteor shower is expected to peak the night of April 21 into early April 22. A faint comet, C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS), is due to appear in the evening sky late in the month.
Dusty May traveled to Memphis in 2000 to ask John Calipari for a job and took a volunteer graduate assistant role while working part time; over the next two decades he moved through assistant positions and eventually became a head coach, including at Florida Atlantic and now Michigan.
Michigan fans poured into Ann Arbor after the Wolverines beat UConn 69-63 to win the men's basketball national championship, giving the school two national titles in three years.
Artemis 2 completed a crewed lunar flyby in early April 2026 with four astronauts aboard; scientists say the mission is a test of systems and is gathering human and environmental data to inform future Artemis landings and lunar research.
Rory McIlroy, one of six golfers to complete a career grand slam, will host the Masters champions dinner and serve a three-course menu that includes dates with goat cheese, 'Champ' potatoes and elk.
Netflix's four-part series "Hulk Hogan: Real American" includes what the trailer presents as the wrestler's final on-camera interview and examines his career, controversies, and personal struggles; Hogan died in 2025 at age 71.
Laurel Caverns in Fayette County has been designated Pennsylvania's 125th state park and the commonwealth's first subterranean state park, announced by Gov. Josh Shapiro; the 435‑acre site includes roughly four miles of cave passages that reach about 476 feet deep.
Dan Simpson, a 68-year-old part-time Domino's driver in Boise, bought a Diet Coke for a visually impaired customer after the store ran out; a Ring video of the gesture went viral and a fundraiser raised tens of thousands of dollars.
Shuggie's Trash Pie in San Francisco builds dishes from upcycled ingredients such as oat‑milk pulp flour and offcuts like beef hearts to keep food out of the dumpster, and experts on NPR say cutting food waste is an important climate solution because food systems produce about one third of global warming pollution.
Astronomers report that the red giant SDSS J0715-7334 is the most chemically pristine star known, with an extremely low metallicity, and its composition provides evidence that dust-driven cooling helped form low-mass stars.
