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March of the Harmattan
2026.04.01
Strong winds in March 2026 carried Saharan dust across northwestern Africa and toward the Canary Islands, reducing visibility and prompting alerts.
Fires Tear Through Nebraska Grasslands
2026.03.31
Dry, warm, and windy conditions across the U.S. Great Plains led to extreme fire activity in March 2026.
Seeing Blue During Schirmacher’s Summer Melt Season
2026.03.30
A network of meltwater lakes and drainage channels made an Antarctic ice shelf known for its blue ice areas even bluer.
Satellite Spots a Spawn
2026.03.27
The activity of herring around Vancouver Island in British Columbia brightened coastal waters enough to be detectable from space.
Arctic Winter Sea Ice Ties Record Low, NASA, NSIDC Scientists Find
2026.03.26
For the second consecutive year, winter sea ice in the Arctic reached a level that matches the lowest peak observed since satellite monitoring began in 1979.
NASA to Unveil Complete Roman Telescope, Host Media Briefing
2026.03.26
Media are invited Tuesday, April 21, to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for a look at the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which recently completed construction and is wrapping up prelaunch testing. This will be one of the last opportunities to view the fully integrated flagship telescope before it ships to […]
NASA’s Hubble Detects First-Ever Spin Reversal of Tiny Comet
2026.03.26
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found evidence that the spinning of a small comet slowed and then reversed its direction of rotation, offering a dramatic example of how volatile activity can affect the spin and physical evolution of small bodies in the solar system. This is the first time researchers have observed evidence […]
A Hot Start to Spring in the Southwest
2026.03.26
Temperatures in several states climbed over 100 degrees Fahrenheit in March 2026, which in some places was the highest March temperature on record.
NASA Webb, Hubble Share Most Comprehensive View of Saturn to Date
2026.03.25
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have teamed up to capture new views of Saturn, revealing the planet in strikingly different ways. Observing in complementary wavelengths of light, the two space observatories provide scientists with a richer, more layered understanding of the gas giant’s atmosphere. Both sense sunlight reflected from Saturn’s banded […]
NASA-JAXA’s XRISM Telescope Clocks Hot Wind of Galaxy M82
2026.03.25
For the first time, astronomers have directly measured the speed of superheated gas billowing from a cauldron of stellar activity at the heart of M82, a nearby galaxy undergoing an extraordinary burst of star formation.
Kona Storms Flood O'ahu
2026.03.25
Back-to-back subtropical cyclones in March fueled destructive flash flooding on several of the Hawaiian Islands.
Tropical Cyclone Narelle Crosses Australia
2026.03.24
The powerful storm lashed the northern edge of the continent with damaging winds and drenching rain as it made landfall multiple times.
NASA’s Hubble Revisits Crab Nebula to Track 25 Years of Expansion
2026.03.23
A quarter-century after its first observations of the full Crab Nebula, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken a fresh look at the supernova remnant. The result is an unparalleled, detailed look at the aftermath of a supernova and how it has evolved over Hubble’s long lifetime. A paper detailing the new Hubble observation is published […]
A Fault Line in Full Bloom
2026.03.23
Plains around the San Andreas Fault and across Carrizo Plain National Monument are awash with yellow as wildflowers bloom.
Restless Kīlauea Launches Lava and Ash
2026.03.20
Episode 43 of the Hawaiian volcano’s current eruption was marked by high lava fountains and widespread ash dispersal.
NASA Laser Reflecting Instrument Makes GPS Satellite More Accurate
2026.03.19
A NASA laser reflecting technology that will aid Global Positioning System (GPS) accuracy is now operational as of March 9. The instrument, known as a laser retroreflector array, or LRA, launched aboard GPS III SV-09, the ninth of U.S. Space Force’s Block III Global Positioning System satellites, on Jan. 27.
NASA’s Roman Observatory Passes Final Major Prelaunch Tests
2026.03.19
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 […]
Australia’s “Red Centre” Turns Green
2026.03.19
Abundant rainfall in February and March 2026 transformed the desert landscape of Central Australia.
NASA’s Hubble Unexpectedly Catches Comet Breaking Up
2026.03.18
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 […]
Wave of Dust Rolls Through Texas
2026.03.18
An advancing cold front kicked up a sharp line of sand and other small particles that swept over the high plains.
A Bit of Gray on an Emerald Isle
2026.03.17
Ireland is best known for its many greens, but the striking grays of the island's Burren region also stand out in satellite images.
Hail Yeah! NASA Researchers Use Volunteer Observations for Hail Estimates
2026.03.17
The bigger the hailstone, the more damage it can cause. But scientists find that predicting hailstone size can be challenging. How quickly does hail melt as it falls? Now, you can help tackle this question by joining the SouthEAst REgion CoCoRaHS Hail (SEaRCH) project.
Cañon Fiord’s Whirling Waters
2026.03.16
During the 2022 summer melt season, sediment plumes and fractured sea ice traced swirling eddies in a branch of the Nansen Sound fjord system in the Canadian Arctic.
Artifacts From NASA’s Webb, Parker Solar Probe on View at Smithsonian
2026.03.13
A testing replica of the “backbone” of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and a full-scale model of the agency’s Parker Solar Probe are now on permanent display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia.
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