UH Mānoa Gets $3M to Find Subsurface Lunar Ice

by PISCES | Mar 3, 2022

Clavius Crater on the Moon. Credit: NASA/USGS NASA has awarded $3 million to a team of five University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa scientists in support of a system that will search for widespread ice deposits beneath the lunar surface. The mission, called...

Webb Has Arrived: What’s Next Could Change Our Understanding of the Universe

by PISCES | Feb 14, 2022

Image: Artist rendering of the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA What can one of the most sophisticated scientific instruments ever built do for our understanding of the universe? We’re about to find out—and the answers will likely surprise everyone. After...

Water Discovered In-Situ on Moon for First Time 

by PISCES | Jan 14, 2022

Above: Chang’E-5 landing site where water was detected. Credit: CNSA/CLEP An international team of scientists including a planetary geologist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa has discovered water on the Moon for the first time using surface...

UH-Designed Sensors on James Webb Telescope Will Provide Deepest Views of Universe Yet

by PISCES | Jan 14, 2022

Above: Artist rendering of the James Webb Space Telescope fully deployed in space. Credit: NASA Astronomers around the world had an especially exciting Christmas in 2021 when the James Webb Space Telescope—NASA’s historic, $10 billion space...

New Composite Material Could Make Manufacturing on the Moon and Mars More Efficient

by PISCES | Dec 13, 2021

Above: An experimental composite material for the Moon/Mars cures inside an acrylic vacuum chamber.  NASA has plans to put humans back on the Moon as early as 2025 and ISRU (in-situ resource utilization) will be a crucial technology for establishing the infrastructure...