A new NASA space telescope successfully launched Sunday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The goal is that it will help scientists probe the nature of dark matter, dark energy and other mysteries of the universe.

Named after the agency’s first chief astronomer, the $4.3 billion Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is the most ambitious NASA science launch since James Webb. The bus-sized observatory separated from the rocket’s upper stage about 31 minutes after liftoff and began a roughly 100-day cruise to Lagrange Point 2, which is about a million miles from Earth, where the Webb telescope already operates.

Roman’s advantage is its width. The field of view is more than 100 times wider than the famed Hubble telecope’s, and it scans the sky about 1,000 times faster. One month of Roman’s Milky Way observations would take Hubble a century, the BBC reports. Same sharpness, but vastly more sky.

The haul of information should be enormous: billions of galaxies, tens of billions of stars and a running exoplanet tally that CBS News said could climb from about 6,200 today to well above 100,000. The real target is darker—tightening the numbers on dark matter and dark energy. One detail worth the office retelling: the primary mirror is surplus hardware donated by the National Reconnaissance Office, spy-satellite glass repurposed for cosmology.

“It feels like I’m on the edge of a precipice, and we’re just about to set foot off into the unknown,” Julie McEnery, who leads Roman’s science team, said at a news conference following the launch. “We’re going to see the sky in a new way with Roman for the first time.”

U.S. forces struck two Iranian rocket launchers on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, the first publicly acknowledged attack on Tehran’s forces in nearly a month as the Trump administration navigates a tenuous ceasefire. The pause is over, at least for now.

Tim Hawkins, a CENTCOM spokesman, said Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces had been observed preparing to fire rockets carrying sea mines into the strait. That came just days after the U.S. finished clearing mines from the shipping lanes. Hawkins' rank is listed inconsistently across outlets, and neither the exact time of the strike nor the platform used has been confirmed by U.S. officials. The IRGC said several fighters and civilians were killed or wounded and vowed “punishment of the aggressor.” A return to open conflict would be dangerous for the region, where Iran has targeted U.S. military bases and infrastructure in Gulf countries since the war began on Feb. 28.

The part that reaches your life is the shipping. Roughly 20% of the world’s oil normally moves through Hormuz; Trump says 24 vessels passed last week, against about 130 a day before the war. And oil prices, of course, jumped again early this morning after news of the attacks.

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell have sued Anthropic in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, accusing the AI company of blatant theft of copyrighted music. The ask: up to $150,000 per work across "tens of thousands" of songs, plus up to $25,000 for each instance of stripped copyright data. Do the math and it runs to several billion dollars.

According to The Verge, the complaint gets personal, naming co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann and alleging Mann torrented more than five million pirated books. It also claims Anthropic scraped lyrics from licensed sites including MusixMatch and LyricFind. Songs cited in the training data reportedly include tracks by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, Bon Jovi, Earth, Wind & Fire, Leonard Cohen and Taylor Swift.

You might recall that just last month Anthropic settled a publishing-industry suit for $1.5 billion, and Universal Music Group, Concord, ABKCO, BMG and Round Hill Music are all still lined up.