Four teams. One mission: to advance NASA’s search for life beyond Earth. In a new episode of the NASA documentary Our Alien Earth, journey with astrobiologists into Hawai‘i’s lava tubes as they test life-detection tools that could one day guide explorers on Mars. https://go.nasa.gov/3XSJNQH Inside these cavernous tubes, they hunt for microbial life in volcanic rock, analyze subsurface gases, and build an augmented-reality model of the field site — all to advance NASA’s future exploration of Mars

’Twas the night before launch day…✨🚀 NASA’s Artemis II mission, targeted for early 2026, will be the first crewed flight of the Artemis campaign and the first time humans journey beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo. The mission will send four astronauts aboard the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft on a roughly 10-day mission to orbit the Moon and return safely to Earth. Artemis II will rigorously test Orion’s life-support, propulsion, navigation, and communications systems i