Rocket Lab to launch 'Finding Hot Wildfires Near You' today | Space Quiz! What organic molecules are hydrocarbons that combine chains of carbon atoms with hydrogen atoms attached to them? | NASA completes SLS core stage stacking for Artemis 2
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Rocket Lab is gearing up for the next launch of its workhorse Electron rocket. Electron will launch "Finding Hot Wildfires Near You" from Pad B at Rocket Lab's Launch Complex 1, Mahia, New Zealand. Liftoff is expected sometime during a 30-minute window that opens at 11:30 a.m. EST (1530 GMT) March 26 -- with a local time of 4:30 a.m. NZT, March 27. A livestream of the launch will be available on Rocket Lab's website and on the Space.com homepage.
NASA's next moon rocket is coming together, piece by piece. The core stage of NASA's next Space Launch System (SLS) rocket recently completed integration with the vehicle's side boosters inside the agency's Vehicle Assembly Building in Florida. SLS will launch NASA's Artemis 2 mission to fly four astronauts aboard an Orion spacecraft around the moon and back sometime next year.
It may not be a total solar eclipse, but the partial solar eclipse on March 29, 2025, will bring some very unusual views of the sun and moon to some observers in North America. Seen as a run-of-the-mill partial solar eclipse in mainland Europe (where about a third of the sun will disappear behind the moon with the two high in the sky in mid-morning), the event is a little more fraught in North America, where it will happen at sunrise. It will also create a weird "double sunrise" effect from some locations in the U.S. state of Maine and the provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec in Canada.
U.S. Space Force Col. Nick Hague is back on Earth after living on the International Space Station (ISS) for the last five-plus months. On March 18, Hague splashed down in the SpaceX Crew-9 Dragon capsule "Freedom" with fellow NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov. Hague holds the distinction of being the first Space Force Guardian to launch into orbit. As a member of the Crew-9 mission, Hague's trip began aboard Freedom, which lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Sept. 28, 2024.
A cosmic coincidence has led to one of the most amazing images ever captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The dramatic outflow from a newborn star, known as Herbig-Haro 49/50 (HH 49/50), just so happened to align perfectly with a distant spiral galaxy, creating this mesmerizing celestial scene.
Scientists have announced the discovery of the largest organic molecules ever found on Mars. These molecules could have come from the breakdown of fatty acids that existed 3.7 billion years ago before being preserved in sediments laid down by an ancient lake on the Red Planet. While molecules don't exactly prove the existence of past life on Mars, scientists say that they show that such a discovery might indeed be possible.
As we shared earlier this month via a series of SXSW 2025 shorts for FX’s upcoming "Alien: Earth" series landing on Hulu this summer, the show's sci-fi design aesthetics and sonic cues will be aligned closely with that of director Ridley Scott's landmark "Alien" film. Those observations are further confirmed with a new sneak peek for creator Noah Hawley's ("Fargo," "Legion") latest project that was revealed by CEO Bob Iger at last week’s Disney 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders and put online by The Cine Geek.
