Hello, Space Fans! We're starting today with some news from NASA headquarters, with reports of apparent layoffs in key agency departments to align with recenmt Trump Administration directives. NASA's Office of the Chief Scientist is no more, and that's just one of the changes.
The lunar eclipse will be exciting, but astronauts are gearing up for their big day this week, too. SpaceX rolled its Crew-10 Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft to the launch pad ahead of a planned March 12 launch. Check it out.
If you're looking to explore space in VR this week, and save some cash then this deal is one to watch. Our space deal trackers have found the PSVR 2 headset at over $150 off, which is its lowest ever price outside of annual sales events like Black Friday.
The dramatic "Blood Moon" will shine overnight on March 13 and March 14, and anyone with clear skies in the Americas could see it. But other countries could get a taste, too! Find out where here.
You may have noticed, we're very excited for this week's total lunar eclipse and we're not alone. Scientists with two moon missions, the private Firefly Blue Ghost lander and NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, are working to keep their probes alive. After all, a blood moon on Earth is a total solar eclipse on the moon for the solar powered spacecraft.
From the moon, we're moving now to some strange events seen at the very heart of the Milky Way could be smoking gun evidence of a new dark matter suspect. This newly proposed dark matter candidate would not only be lighter than existing hypothetical suspects, but it would also be self-annihilating. Here's what that means for science.
Boom Supersonic is making history with plans for a commercial American supersonic jet, and its XB-1 prototype is already making waves. The single-seater jet recently flew well beyond Mach 1 in tests and NASA captured this stunning photo for a souvenir as much as for the science.
Is there life out there? The search for alien life has been a key driver in astronomy for ages and the discovery of exoplanet K2-18b kicked things up a notch in 2023, when scientiss began debating if life could live on its surface. The jury's still out.
Let's close out the week with something historic that happened today in space.
On March 11, 2008, the first piece of a Japanese module of the International Space Station launched on the space shuttle Endeavour during mission STS-123. It also included a huge robot called Dextre to the ISS. See how it happened in our "On This Day in Space" video series!
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