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...
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...
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...
Moon Express expects to successfully launch its small lunar lander, the MX-1E, later this year as a contestant in the Google Lunar XPRIZE competition. Credit: Moon Express. Thanks to a new round of investments, Moon Express is slated for a successful attempt at...
In November PISCES partnered with NASA and the University of Hawaii at Hilo to conduct a groundbreaking research project to enable the human exploration of Mars. Called BASALT (Biologic Analog Simulation Associated with Lava Terrains), this project investigated the...
Photo: John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth with the Friendship 7 space capsule. Credit: NASA. Astronaut and American hero John Glenn died on Thursday (Dec. 8) in Ohio at the age of 95. Glenn inspired the nation as the first American to orbit Earth in 1962....
