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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team recently blasted the observatory with extreme sound, shook it, and listened to its electronic hum. Roman passed all three assessments, which aimed to confirm that the observatory will withstand launch conditions and function as expected in space. The achievement keeps the mission on track for launch as early […]

March 19, 2026 at 05:30AM
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Abundant rainfall in February and March 2026 transformed the desert landscape of Central Australia.

March 19, 2026 at 05:30AM
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A fast-moving cluster of meningococcal disease centred in Canterbury has claimed two young lives and infected at least 20 people, prompting an emergency vaccination drive and a national public health alert — here is what you need to know.

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Written by Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, APXS Strategic Planner and Payload Uplink/Downlink Lead, University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning date: Friday, March 13, 2026 We are in our final phase of the boxwork campaign, investigating the contacts between the boxwork unit and the layered sulfate unit. As my colleague Bill reported here, last week we crossed […]

March 18, 2026 at 05:30AM
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In a happy twist of fate, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope just witnessed a comet in the act of breaking apart. The chance of that happening while Hubble watched is extraordinarily minuscule. The findings published Wednesday in the journal Icarus. The comet K1, whose full name is C/2025 K1 (ATLAS)—not to be confused with interstellar comet […]

March 18, 2026 at 05:30AM
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An advancing cold front kicked up a sharp line of sand and other small particles that swept over the high plains.

March 18, 2026 at 05:30AM
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Cancer the Crab is a dim constellation, yet it contains one of the most beautiful and easy-to-spot star clusters in our sky: the Beehive Cluster. Cancer also possesses one of the most studied exoplanets: the superhot super-Earth, 55 Cancri e. Find Cancer’s dim stars by looking in between the brighter neighboring constellations of Gemini and […]

March 17, 2026 at 05:30AM
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