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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY 2026 SIA_27th Annual Leadership Dinner 3.23.26 2026 Artemis Suppliers Conference 3.23-25.26 Ansys Government Initiatives Event_AGI 3.19.26 Homeland Security Week 3.17-18.26 Amazon Smithsonian and Space for Humanity Event 3.16.26 HLSR_NASA Night at the Rodeo 3.7.26 WIF Leadership Luncheon 3.4.26 2026 National Space Club Florida Committee Monthly Luncheon Space Policy Institute EventContinue reading “Widely Attended Gatherings (WAGs) Determinations”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY An advancing cold front kicked up a sharp line of sand and other small particles that swept over the high plains.

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s X-59 experimental aircraft is preparing for its second flight, a step that will set the pace for more flight testing in 2026.  Over the coming months, NASA will take the quiet supersonic jet faster and higher, while validating safety and performance, a process known as envelope expansion.  NASA test pilot Jim “Clue” LessContinue reading “NASA’s X-59 Prepares for Second Flight”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY 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 brighterContinue reading “Dim Delights in Cancer”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY These X-ray computed tomography (XCT) scans released on March 17, 2026, give us a glimpse inside asteroid Bennu. They show the most common types of crack networks observed in Bennu samples; these networks solved a mystery that baffled NASA for years. When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft first approached asteroid Bennu in 2018, scientists expected to see smooth,Continue reading “Solving Asteroid Bennu’s Mysteries”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY 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?

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY In one of the biggest surprises of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged world covered in large boulders, with few of the smooth patches of sandy or pebbly material scientists had expected based on observations with Earth-based instruments. Bennu’s looks were quiteContinue reading “Asteroid Bennu’s Rugged Surface Baffled NASA, We Finally Know Why”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Ireland is best known for its many greens, but the striking grays of the island’s Burren region also stand out in satellite images.

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA will hold a media teleconference at 5:30 p.m. EDT on Thursday, March 19 to highlight plans for its X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft’s upcoming flight tests. The teleconference is set to take place after the X-59 is scheduled to complete its second flight, in California. For the media call, NASAContinue reading “NASA Invites Media to Learn About Upcoming X-59 Test Flights”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Description This pair of images shows stars observed by the SPARCS (Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat) space telescope simultaneously in the near-ultraviolet, left, and far-ultraviolet, right. These observations were recorded on Feb. 6, 2026, three weeks after the cube satellite, or CubeSat, launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 on Jan. 11.Continue reading “SPARCS CubeSat ‘First Light’ Images”