NASA Names Astronaut Christina Koch Acting Deputy Chief Engineer

An emotional scene of an elephant carrying a deceased calf has earned Italian photographer Federico Veronesi the title of Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026. While tracking elephants in Namibia's Huab River Valley, Veronesi spotted an unusual trail of drag marks across the sand of a dry riverbed. Following the tracks, he came across a female elephant carrying a dead calf, its leg wedged between her tusk and trunk.

Costing about £40 per packet for her most expensive product, it's not going to replace the supermarket brands any time soon. Droughts, intensive downpours and diseases have created challenges for tea growers across the world as they deal with the impact of a warming planet. But some experts believe Scotland's relatively settled climate could give the tea industry here a helping hand.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, California, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover on behalf of the agency’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington, as part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program portfolio. For more about Perseverance: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-2020-perseverance/ NASA explores the unknown in air and space, innovates for the benefit of humanity, and inspires the world through discovery.

Description Members of NASA’s Perseverance Mars mission team gather in the Mars Yard at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California with a certificate from Guinness World Records marking the rover distance record on the Red Planet. Positioned in front of the team is OPTIMISM (Operational Perseverance Twin for Integration of Mechanisms and Instruments […]