UH Hilo Computer Science Students to Upgrade PISCES Rover

UH Hilo Computer Science Students to Upgrade PISCES Rover

UH Hilo CS students (L–R): Jayden Matsunaka, Daniel Malone, and Richard Sevao. Technology changes fast and it’s a been a few years since our Helelani planetary rover had any updates to her software systems. Thankfully, a group of students from the University of...
NASA Seeking Student Proposals for 2023 TechRise Challenge

NASA Seeking Student Proposals for 2023 TechRise Challenge

U.S. students in grades 6–12 are invited to team up with their classmates to develop a science or technology experiment idea for NASA’s TechRise Student Challenge. The challenge calls for an experiment designed for one of two flight vehicles: a high-altitude...
NASA Just Brought Its First Asteroid Sample Back to Earth

NASA Just Brought Its First Asteroid Sample Back to Earth

The sample return capsule for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission touched down in the Utah desert on Sept. 24. with a sample from asteroid Bennu. Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber After seven years and billions of miles of space travel, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral...