Hawaii Observatory Reveals 100 Potential Exoplanets

Hawaii Observatory Reveals 100 Potential Exoplanets

Image: Artist rendering of an exoplanet orbiting two stars. Courtesy of WikiCommons.  In the search for habitable alien worlds, Hawaii’s W.M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea has contributed a revelatory discovery of over 100 potential new exoplanets orbiting distant...
Team PRIMA Completes Mars Simulation Mission

Team PRIMA Completes Mars Simulation Mission

Photo: MDRS Crew 173. Image taken by Niamh Shaw for Mars Desert Research Station. An international team of six leading scientists, engineers, artists and leadership experts just completed an exciting Martian simulation at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in...
New Horizons Spacecraft Speeds Toward Kuiper Belt Object

New Horizons Spacecraft Speeds Toward Kuiper Belt Object

An artist’s rendering shows NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flying by its next target destination: Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69. Credit: NASA/Alex Parker NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made history almost two years ago when it completed a flyby of...
HI-SEAS ‘Astronauts’ Begin Eight-month Mission in Isolation

HI-SEAS ‘Astronauts’ Begin Eight-month Mission in Isolation

Image: For the next eight months, six scientists will live inside this 36-foot diameter dome  on the slopes of Mauna Loa to study the effects of isolated living in deep-space. Photo courtesy of HI-SEAS.  Six “Martian astronauts” just entered the HI-SEAS...