Calendar of Events

Life's Question
2026-08-15 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Southworth Planetarium — Science Building, 70 Falmouth St, Portland, ME, 04103, United States
Life’s Question: Whether inside your body, or in lakes full of arsenic and salt, or in a small drop of water, life has adapted and has made this planet an inhabitable world. But, what are the possibilities of a complex process like this, also existing beyond heaven and beyond Earth? Maybe … on another planet?

Rusty Rocket's Last Blast!
2026-08-17 10:00 - 23:00, 2026-08-18 10:00 - 23:00, 2026-08-19 10:00 - 23:00 | Southworth Planetarium — Science Building, 70 Falmouth St, Portland, ME, 04103, United States
Rusty Rocket’s Last Blast: Join Rusty Rocket and his band of rocket rookies as they explore the solar system. Fly across Saturn’s rings, soar along a Martian canyon; delve deep into the solar interior!

Messengers of Time and Space
2026-08-17 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-08-18 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-08-19 14:00 - 15:00 | Southworth Planetarium — Science Building, 70 Falmouth St, Portland, ME, 04103, United States
Messengers of Time and Space: A new age of astronomy is just about to start that will allow researchers to capture exploding stars, colliding black holes and other cosmic cataclysms in real time.

Back To The Moon For Good
2026-08-17 14:00 - 15:00, 2026-08-19 13:00 - 14:00 | Southworth Planetarium — Science Building, 70 Falmouth St, Portland, ME, 04103, United States
Back to the Moon for Good: The show opens with the first era of space exploration, then looks to a possible future. Google Lunar XPRIZE is designed to democratize space and create new opportunities for eventual human and robotic presence on the Moon

Little Draggy Adventure
2026-08-20 10:00 - 11:00, 2026-08-21 10:00 - 11:00 | Southworth Planetarium — Science Building, 70 Falmouth St, Portland, ME, 04103, United States
Little Draggy Adventure: Fly out to the farthest reaches of the universe and up through Earth’s atmosphere to gain an astronaut’s view of your home—the only planet currently known to support life.

Earthquake
2026-08-20 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-08-21 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-08-22 13:00 - 14:00 | Southworth Planetarium — Science Building, 70 Falmouth St, Portland, ME, 04103, United States
Earthquake: Fly along the San Andreas Fault before diving into the planet’s interior. Journey back in time to witness the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and the break-up of Pangaea 200 million years ago.

Traveling With Light
2026-08-24 10:00 - 11:00, 2026-08-25 10:00 - 11:00, 2026-08-26 10:00 - 11:00 | Southworth Planetarium — Science Building, 70 Falmouth St, Portland, ME, 04103, United States
Travelling with Light: Through the conversation between a child and his mother, this show tackles the importance of light in all areas of our lives. The movie presents different scenarios that reveal the complexity of light and its influence on our planet.t

Dark
2026-08-24 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-08-25 13:00 - 14:00 | Southworth Planetarium — Science Building, 70 Falmouth St, Portland, ME, 04103, United States
Dark: The search for dark matter is the most pressing astrophysical problem of our time – the solution to which will help us understand why the Universe is as it is, where it came from, and how it has evolved over billions of years.

From Earth To The Universe
2026-08-26 13:00 - 14:00 | Southworth Planetarium — Science Building, 70 Falmouth St, Portland, ME, 04103, United States
This stunning, 30-minute voyage through time and space conveys, through an arresting combination of sights and sounds, the Universe revealed to us by science. Read more about the movie here. The show was produced for the ESO Supernova Planetarium and Visitor Centre, to be opened in spring 2018, and for the worldwide planetarium community as free high resolution 4k download.

One World, One Sky
2026-08-27 10:00 - 11:00, 2026-08-28 10:00 - 11:00, 2026-08-29 13:00 - 14:00 | Southworth Planetarium — Science Building, 70 Falmouth St, Portland, ME, 04103, United States
One World, One Sky: This show follows Sesame Street‘s Big Bird and Elmo as they explore the night sky with Hu Hu Zhu, a Muppet from China.

Solar System A Wonderful Journey
2026-08-27 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-08-28 13:00 - 14:00 | Southworth Planetarium — Science Building, 70 Falmouth St, Portland, ME, 04103, United States
Solar System: A Wonderful Journey: Explore the solar system from a spaceship as it travels from the surface of the Sun to the planets and beyond.

Dinosaurs At Dusk
2026-08-31 13:00 - 14:00 | Southworth Planetarium — Science Building, 70 Falmouth St, Portland, ME, 04103, United States
Dinosaurs at Dusk: A whirlwind time travel adventure back to the epoch of the dinosaurs! A larger than life extravaganza rife with roaring monsters from the ancient age

University of Southern Maine Women's Soccer at University of Maine-Farmington
2026-09-01 16:00 - 18:00 | Farmington, ME, Farmington, Maine, United States
University of Southern Maine Women’s Soccer at University of Maine-Farmington

University of Southern Maine Field Hockey at University of New England
2026-09-01 17:30 - 20:30 | Biddeford, Maine, Biddeford, Maine, United States

University of Southern Maine Field Hockey at University of New England
2026-09-01 17:30 - 20:30

University of Southern Maine Women's Volleyball vs Saint Joseph's College of Maine
2026-09-01 18:00 - 20:00
University of Southern Maine Women’s Volleyball vs Saint Joseph’s College of Maine
