Space Content / Space Content for ٺƵ en To the Moon and Back: ٺƵ Plays Role in Historic Artemis I Mission /news/moon-and-back-uc-davis-plays-role-historic-artemis-i-mission <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>On Dec. 11, Artemis I’s Orion capsule made a successful splashdown in the Pacific Ocean after nearly 26 days in space and orbiting the moon. Orion is NASA’s new exploration spacecraft designed to carry humans into deep space.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> December 16, 2022 - 2:00pm Andy Fell /news/moon-and-back-uc-davis-plays-role-historic-artemis-i-mission Lettuce Could Protect Astronauts’ Bones on Mars Trip /curiosity/news/lettuce-could-protect-astronauts-bones-mars-trip <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Astronauts might one day grow and eat genetically modified plants to ward off disease associated with long spaceflights. Researchers at the University of California, Davis, College of Engineering have developed a transgenic, or genetically modified, lettuce producing a drug to protect against bone density loss in microgravity. The work will be presented March 22 at the spring meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Diego. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> March 22, 2022 - 8:30am Andy Fell /curiosity/news/lettuce-could-protect-astronauts-bones-mars-trip Fragments of 2018 Botswana Fireball Came From Vesta /blog/fragments-2018-botswana-fireball-came-vesta <p>An asteroid that exploded over Botswana in 2018 likely came from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.space.com/12097-vesta-asteroid-facts-solar-system.html">Vesta</a>, the second largest object in the asteroid belt, according to an analysis of rocks recovered after the impact.</p> <p>Vesta is the source of about six percent of all meteorites found on Earth. Some of these meteorites were launched by a huge impact on Vesta about a billion years ago. However, the new analysis suggests the 2018 asteroid was flung into space about 22 million years ago.</p> April 23, 2021 - 8:30am Andy Fell /blog/fragments-2018-botswana-fireball-came-vesta New Institute Eyes HOME in Deep Space /news/new-institute-eyes-home-deep-space <p>In a significant step toward human-crewed space missions to the moon or Mars, NASA has awarded a grant of up to $15 million over five years to a new research institute led by the University of California, Davis. The HOME (Habitats Optimized for Missions of Exploration) Space Technology Research Institute will develop enabling technology for spacecraft and deep-space bases of the future.&nbsp;</p> April 30, 2019 - 1:34pm Andy Fell /news/new-institute-eyes-home-deep-space Fruit Flies Raised in Space by ٺƵ Researcher Show Weakened Immunity /curiosity/news/fruit-flies-raised-space-uc-davis-researcher-show-weakened-immune-system <p>In 2006, Professor Deborah Kimbrell and a group of university researchers were selected by NASA to send fruit flies up on a space shuttle to test their immune response.</p> October 08, 2018 - 4:58pm Karen Michele Nikos /curiosity/news/fruit-flies-raised-space-uc-davis-researcher-show-weakened-immune-system How Did the Moon Get Where It Is? /curiosity-gap/how-did-moon-get-where-it <p>Earth’s moon is an unusual object in our solar system, and now there’s a new theory to explain how it got where it is, which puts some twists on the current “giant impact” theory.</p> September 17, 2018 - 4:47pm Karen Michele Nikos /curiosity-gap/how-did-moon-get-where-it How the Moon Formed Inside a Vaporized Earth Synestia /news/how-moon-formed-inside-vaporized-earth-synestia <p>A new explanation for the moon’s origin has it forming inside the Earth when our planet was a seething, spinning cloud of vaporized rock, called a <strong><a href="/news/synestia-new-type-planetary-object/">synestia</a></strong>. The new model led by researchers at the University of California, Davis, and Harvard University resolves several problems in lunar formation and is published Feb. 28 in the <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017JE005333/abstract"><em>Journal of Geophysical Research – Planets</em></a>.</p> February 28, 2018 - 1:49pm Andy Fell /news/how-moon-formed-inside-vaporized-earth-synestia 10 Ways ٺƵ Is Great in STEM /news/clone-5-reasons-lift-glass-uc-davis <p>This week, we present in sound and video some of the people and projects that make ٺƵ a great place for science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or&nbsp;STEM.</p> August 22, 2016 - 4:36pm Andy Fell /news/clone-5-reasons-lift-glass-uc-davis New Type of Meteorite Linked to Ancient Asteroid Collision /news/new-type-meteorite-linked-ancient-asteroid-collision <p>An ancient space rock discovered in a Swedish quarry is a type of meteorite never before found on Earth and likely a remnant of a collision in the asteroid belt that sent debris raining to Earth during the Ordovician Period 470 million years ago.</p> June 15, 2016 - 9:33am Andy Fell /news/new-type-meteorite-linked-ancient-asteroid-collision ٺƵ to Break Ground for Large Lecture Hall /news/uc-davis-break-ground-large-lecture-hall <h2>What</h2> <figure role="group" class="caption caption-drupal-media align-right"> <div class="media media--type-sf-image-media-type media--view-mode-default"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/news/general-news/2016/may/lecturehallrendering.jpg" width="360" height="203" alt="A rendering of the exterior of a large building" typeof="Image"> </div> <figcaption>The large lecture hall will accommodate up to 600 students.</figcaption> </figure> <p>ٺƵ will celebrate the groundbreaking for a <a href="http://dcm.ucdavis.edu/projects/lecturehall/index.html"></a></p> June 02, 2016 - 4:00pm Julia Ann Easley /news/uc-davis-break-ground-large-lecture-hall