Image: ILOA, CSYS, Intuitive Machines The first camera to photograph the Milky Way galaxy from the surface of the Moon needs a name! Local students are invited to submit Hawaiian name ideas for the International Lunar Observatory Association’s ILO-X Moon Camera—one of...
Image: NASA Speeding across the skies some 250 miles overhead, the International Space Station is a tangible symbol of international cooperation and has largely remained above the realm of geopolitics—both literally and metaphorically—since it was built. But Russia’s...
Students of all ages and backgrounds are invited to meet and learn about the work of some of the talented female scientists, engineers, and technicians who are actively pushing the boundaries of space discovery during the 3rd series, March 14 – 16. Hosted by the...
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...
