Melissa Adams at the PISCES office, holding a certificate of appreciation from NASA’s Johnson Space Center for recent work identifying rock samples on Mauna Kea. Former PISCES intern Melissa Adams, who recently returned from her 10-week Sally Ride Internship at...
Photo of an Aurora Borealis captured from Space. Image Credit: ESA/NASA. European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Alexander Gerst captured this incredible image of an aurora roughly 220 miles above Earth from the International Space Station. Auroras are caused by solar...
Image Credit: The Earthrise Space Foundation Meet Sagan, an ambitious robot who dreams of traveling to the Moon. But he needs help getting there. To help make Sagan’s dream a reality, one of our partners, the Earthrise Space Foundation, has launched an...
Above: Astronaut Piers Sellers during a 2006 spacewalk outside the now-retired Space Shuttle. Credit: NASA Today (Sept. 16, 2014) NASA officials announced the return of manned spaceflight launches from the U.S. for the first time since the Shuttle program ended in...
Above: Artist rendering of the Luna 2 spacecraft shortly before impacting the Moon’s surface. Credit: Nick Stevens. September 13 marks a historic day in space travel when the Soviet ‘Luna 2’ spacecraft became the first man-made object to reach the...
China’s ‘Jade Rabbit’ Moon rover (aka ‘Yutu’) departs from the Chang’e-3 lunar lander in December, 2013, marking the first soft landing on the moon’s surface in 40 years. Credit: CNSA/CCTV. China has just released photos of the Moon taken by...
