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SScience
These Webb (left) and Hubble (right) images reveal Saturn in infrared and visible light. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / A. Simon, NASA-GSFC / M. Wong, University of California / J. DePasquale, STScI.
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Webb and Hubble Telescopes Capture Saturn in Unprecedented Detail

  • March 27, 2026
By combining infrared observations from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope with visible-light imagery from the NASA/ESA Hubble…
SScience
Astronomers have spotted two giant gas plants forming around a baby star in deep space
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Astronomers have spotted two giant gas plants forming around a baby star in deep space

  • March 25, 2026
Astronomers have caught something extraordinary happening in deep space – new planets being born, right now. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT…
EEnvironment
Letters: Wars are a big contributor to greenhouse gases and lead to environmental disaster
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Letters: Wars are a big contributor to greenhouse gases and lead to environmental disaster

  • March 20, 2026
Gary Hollis, Mellons Bay. Kent’s warning Joe Kent recently resigned as director of the US National Counterterrorism Centre…
SScience
A high-resolution image of the Martian surface shows several impact craters of varying sizes on a dusty, reddish-brown landscape with some shadowed and rough textured areas.
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High Resolution Stereo Camera Captures 3D Photos of Craters on Mars

  • March 10, 2026
Newly published high-resolution photos of Mars show some of the red planet’s many craters in exceptional, colorful detail.…
SScience
Webb captured the auroral footprints of Io and Europa, providing spectral measurements for the first time, and revealing extreme changes in the physical properties within Io’s auroral footprint that are likely linked to the electrons crashing into the top of Jupiter’s atmosphere. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Webb / NIRCam / Jupiter ERS Team / Judy Schmidt / Katie L. Knowles, Northumbria University.
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Webb Captures Io’s and Europa’s Auroral Footprints in Jupiter’s Atmosphere

  • March 6, 2026
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope conducted a clockwise scan around the entire limb of Jupiter, chasing aurora…
SScience
Extremophile Bacteria May Hitch Rides on Asteroid Fragments
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Extremophile Bacteria May Hitch Rides on Asteroid Fragments

  • March 5, 2026
Earlier work has demonstrated that an extremophile bacterium species called Deinococcus radiodurans can survive the radiation, cold, and…
SScience
An artist’s concept of aurorae on Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. Image credit: NASA / ESA / G. Bacon, STScI / J. Saur, University of Cologne.
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Ganymede’s Auroral Patches Reveal Shared Physics with Earth’s Aurorae

  • March 2, 2026
Scientsts from the United States, Europe and China have used the Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) onboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft…
SSpace
Peter Griffin: We should all hope Elon Musk’s wacky plan for data centres in space works
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Peter Griffin: We should all hope Elon Musk’s wacky plan for data centres in space works

  • February 25, 2026
Peter Griffin Technology writer·New Zealand Listener· 25 Feb, 2026 05:00 PM3 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to…
SScience
6 planets will parade across the night sky this weekend
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6 planets will parade across the night sky this weekend

  • February 24, 2026
Six planets are linking up in the sky at the end of February, and most will be visible…
VVirtual reality
See mega animals, experience augmented reality at Fernbank’s ‘Planet Ice’ – WSB-TV Channel 2
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See mega animals, experience augmented reality at Fernbank’s ‘Planet Ice’ – WSB-TV Channel 2

  • February 22, 2026
See megaanimals, experience augmented reality, explore an ice-fishing shack and uncover 80,000 years of the ice ages at…
SScience
Tiranti et al. mapped the vertical structure of Uranus’ upper atmosphere, uncovering how temperature and charged particles vary with height across the planet. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Webb / STScI / P. Tiranti / H. Melin / M. Zamani, ESA & Webb.
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Webb Reveals Hidden Layers of Uranus’ Upper Atmosphere

  • February 21, 2026
For the first time, astronomers have mapped the vertical structure of Uranus’ ionosphere, uncovering unexpected temperature peaks, weakened…
SSpace
NASA asteroids: No way to stop 15000 city-killing asteroids from striking Earth: NASA scientist warns |
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NASA asteroids: No way to stop 15000 city-killing asteroids from striking Earth: NASA scientist warns |

  • February 19, 2026
NASA Warns: Thousands of City-Killing Asteroids Untracked, Earth Vulnerable In a stark and widely reported warning, NASA’s planetary…
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