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The NASA Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket with the Orion spacecraft is seen at Launch Complex 39B at the Kennedy Space Center, Tuesday, March 31, 2026, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Moon rocket and weather are on NASA's side for the first astronaut launch in decades

12:21 PM on Tuesday, March 31

Everything seems to be going NASA's way as the countdown proceeds toward a Wednesday launch of astronauts' first trip to the moon in more than half a century

TGI Announces CEO Samuel Epstein Leading Scientific Presentation Platform at Geological Association of America Northeastern Regional Meeting

10:20 AM on Tuesday, March 31

Parse Biosciences, a QIAGEN Company, Launches FFPE-compatible Barcoding Technology for Whole Transcriptome Single Cell Analysis

9:40 AM on Tuesday, March 31

Science Corp. Appoints Murat Günel, MD, as Medical Director for Brain-Computer Interfaces

6:00 AM on Tuesday, March 31

‘Project Hail Mary’ demonstrates how intellectual humility can be a guiding force for scientists and astronauts

5:44 AM on Tuesday, March 31

Thermo Fisher Scientific Launches Thermo Scientific Glacios 3 Cryo-TEM

5:30 AM on Tuesday, March 31

FILE - A full moon is seen shining over NASA's SLS (Space Launch System) and Orion spacecraft atop the mobile launcher in the early hours of Feb. 1, 2026, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Sam Lott/NASA via AP, File)

NASA is shooting for the moon. A guide to the Artemis II mission

5:03 AM on Tuesday, March 31

It's humanity's first flight to the moon since 1972

Infinimmune Enters Collaboration with Merck to Discover Novel Human Antibody Therapeutics

5:00 AM on Tuesday, March 31

This photo provided by NOAA Fisheries shows a Rice’s whale at the surface in the Gulf of Mexico. (NOAA Fisheries (Permit #779-1633) via AP)

Things to know about Rice's whale, a rare species at risk from Trump plans for more Gulf drilling

9:03 PM on Monday, March 30

One of the world’s rarest whales, the Rice's whale, is in the way of the Trump administration's desire to expand oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico

FILE - An oil tanker passes at sunrise while a man fishes in Port Aransas, Texas, Aug. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Trump officials exempt oil and gas drilling in the Gulf from endangered species rules

9:01 PM on Monday, March 30

Trump administration officials are exempting oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from the Endangered Species Act

This photo provided by NASA shows NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Artemis II commander, from left, Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot, Christina Koch, Artemis II mission specialist, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, Artemis II mission specialist, right, in a group photograph as they visit NASA's Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft, Monday, March 30, 2026, at Launch Complex 39B of NASA's Kennedy Space Center, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)

NASA begins the countdown for humanity's first launch to the moon in 53 years

1:48 PM on Monday, March 30

The countdown has begun toward humanity’s first launch to the moon in 53 years

Agena Bioscience Announces Launch of the CFTR 100+ Panel on the MassARRAY® System

8:00 AM on Monday, March 30

CO-YORK-SPACE-SYSTEMS

6:00 AM on Monday, March 30

NASA wants to build a base on the Moon by the 2030s – how and why it plans to build up to a long-term lunar presence

5:41 AM on Monday, March 30

Are multiverses real? An astrophysicist explains why it depends on how you define ‘real’

5:39 AM on Monday, March 30

In this photo provided by NASA, astronaut Charles M. Duke Jr. collects lunar samples at Station No. 1 during the first Apollo 16 extravehicular activity at the Descartes landing site, April 21, 1972. (John W. Young/NASA via AP)

Apollo's impatient old-timers are rooting for NASA's return to the moon with Artemis II launch

5:02 AM on Monday, March 30

The people who toiled night and day to put astronauts on the moon during Apollo are thrilled that NASA is finally going back

Teledyne to Deliver Advanced Detectors for the Lazuli Space Observatory, Accelerating Next-Generation, Open-Access Astronomy

5:00 AM on Monday, March 30

A vendor prepares a cage containing his birds before an annual pilgrimage of bird vendors to the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City, Sunday, March 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

These men carry towers of birds through Mexico's streets. They say their tradition is dying

5:14 PM on Sunday, March 29

The act of selling birds in stacks of cages — sometimes far taller than the men who carry them — spans generations

Birutė Galdikas: The last of ‘Leakey’s Angels’ in primatology’s most extraordinary chapter

5:26 AM on Friday, March 27

NASA’s Artemis II mission will take an astronaut crew around the Moon – a space policy expert describes the long road to launch

5:32 AM on Thursday, March 26

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