Students Send Dispatches from NASA Trip to Volcano

by PISCES | Aug 6, 2015

Students are seen here with a NASA-funded science team on Kilauea’s lava fields. Credit: NASA In June, five student journalists from Stony Brook University’s Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science packed their hiking boots and hydration packs and headed to...

NASA Camera Captures Moon Transiting Earth

by PISCES | Aug 6, 2015

Credits: NASA/NOAA One of NASA’s cameras captured pictures of the far side of the moon recently. According to NASA’s website, the images were captured by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a four megapixel CCD camera and telescope on the...

Six Scientists Chosen for HI-SEAS Simulated Mars Trip

by PISCES | Aug 3, 2015

The scientists will spend 365 days in isolation starting Aug. 28. Photo: HI-SEAS. Six scientists will spend the next year in isolation as part of the upcoming Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation mission. According to a release from the University of Hawaii...

UH Hilo Robotics Team Tests School’s First Rover

by PISCES | Jul 30, 2015

UH-Hilo’s rover “Spock” shown during its very first field test at a PISCES martian simulation site on Hawaii Island. The University of Hawaii at Hilo’s Space Robotics Team has successfully built from scratch the school’s very first planetary mining...

Kepler Mission Team Discovers Close ‘Cousin’ to Earth

by PISCES | Jul 24, 2015

An artist rendering compares Earth (left) to the newly discovered Kepler-452b, which inhabits the “goldilocks zone” where liquid water could be present. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle NASA’s Kepler mission scientists have discovered and confirmed what...