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...
Artist rendering of the Nancy Roman Space Telescope. Credit: NASA A University of Hawaiʻi astronomer is part of a team of experts recently awarded $11 million to face the daunting challenge of designing software for NASA’s next-generation space telescope. David...
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...
Credit: NASA NASA is offering a chance to send your name to a distant moon as part of a mission to determine whether life could exist elsewhere in the solar system! The Europa Clipper mission will travel 1.8 billion miles to explore Jupiterʻs icy moon, Europa—a world...
Above: Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram lander on the Moon, captured by the Pragyan rover. Credit: ISRO India nailed its first lunar landing on the second try. Chandrayaan-3 touched down at the lunar south pole—a never-before visited region of the Moon—on August 23,...
In celebration of International Moon Day, we were excited to support the second-annual Moon Village Association (MVA) international tele-robotics event last month. On July 20th, teams from schools and universities around the world linked up with a trio of rovers: our...
