Above: The DART spacecraft captured this image of the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos on Sept. 26 just 11 seconds before impact. Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL After orbiting the Sun for 10 months in pursuit of an asteroid, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)...
Credit: NASA NASA is poised to launch Artemis I, the first in the Artemis Program’s series of planned missions to return humans to the Moon in the coming years. The 1.3-million-mile flight is scheduled for launch on Saturday, Sept. 3, at 8:17 a.m. HST and will...
Four teams of students from countries around the world took the controls of our Helelani rover last month, July 20, to conduct a simulated lunar mission as part of a tele-robotics lunar event hosted in the U.S. and Canada. Organized by the Moon Village...
Credit: NASA Continuing Hawaiʻi’s important role in lunar exploration, the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa will soon begin a new NASA-funded project to engage Native Hawaiian students in planetary science. In collaboration with Honua Scholars, the project...
Credit: AMOS/SGAC Are you a student or young professional who is excited about space careers? Check out the 5th Annual EMER-GEN Program on Maui, Sept. 25 to 27. Participants will meet space professionals from academia and the public/private sectors while developing...