Sunday, March 22, 2026

NASA's Artemis 2 moon rocket has been rolled back to Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center, with the agency targeting April 1 for the launch of four astronauts on a 10-day lunar flyby mission—the first crewed journey to the Moon since 1972.^[1]

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have teamed up to release new images of Saturn, capturing the planet in both infrared and visible light for what NASA calls the most comprehensive view of the gas giant to date.^[2]

Scientists have identified 24 new deep-sea amphipod species—including an entirely new superfamily representing a previously unknown branch of life—in the Pacific Ocean's Clarion-Clipperton Zone between Hawaii and Mexico.^[3]

A cow named Veronika in Austria has stunned scientists by demonstrating flexible tool use, choosing different ends of a brush depending on which part of her body she wants to scratch—behavior previously thought limited to primates.^[4]

Scientists have uncovered fossils from 16 species inside a New Zealand cave dating back one million years, including a newly identified ancestor of the kākāpō parrot that may have been able to fly—unlike its modern flightless descendant.^[5]

Sarah Mullally was enthroned as the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury, becoming the first woman to lead the Church of England in its more than 1,400-year history, in a ceremony attended by Prince William, Princess Catherine, and Prime Minister Keir Starmer.^[6]

A Russian delegation has arrived in the United States for the first official talks since relations strained over Moscow's war in Ukraine, with Kremlin officials describing the visit as part of necessary dialogue between the two countries.^[7]