Above: Example of a neutron monitoring station. Credit: UH News The outlook for space weather forecasts is looking bright. Researchers at UH Mānoa have been awarded a $2.5 million National Science Foundation grant to build a space weather monitoring...
Image: NASA Blazing across the skies some 250 miles overhead, the International Space Station is a symbol of international cooperation and has largely remained above the realm of geopolitics—both literally and metaphorically—since it was built. But Russia’s invasion...
Earthlings are better-equipped to detect asteroid threats thanks to the expansion of a NASA-funded program run by the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA). ATLAS, or Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System, has...
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...
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...
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...