Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa have discovered a way to synthetically make building blocks for DNA and RNA under the extreme conditions of deep space. The team blasted interstellar analog ices made of ammonia and methylamine with a laser to simulate...
Above: The European Space Agency’s Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite captured this composite image of the eruption shortly after it began. Credit: ESA As you’re probably well aware, Mauna Loa awakened on Nov. 27, spewing lava from Moku’āweoweo summit...
Above: Helelani in the field at the HOST Park’s lunar analog site in Kailua-Kona. Operators in California used a graphic user interface to navigate the rover remotely. The PISCES planetary rover “Helelani” was back in the field at a planetary analog...
Credit: NASA NASA’s Artemis I mission made history on Monday, Nov. 28 when the uncrewed Orion spacecraft reached its maximum distance from Earth of 268,563 miles—farther than any spacecraft designed for human space travel has flown from our home planet....
Above: A trail of debris scatters in the wake of asteroid moonlet Didymos after NASA’s DART spacecraft pummeled it surface. Credit: NASA/Hubble Space Telescope NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) in late September made history by using a spacecraft to...
Above: The DART spacecraft captured this image of the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos on Sept. 26 just 11 seconds before impact. Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL After orbiting the Sun for 10 months in pursuit of an asteroid, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)...
