UH-Hilo’s rover “Spock” shown during its very first field test at a PISCES martian simulation site on Hawaii Island. The University of Hawaii at Hilo’s Space Robotics Team has successfully built from scratch the school’s very first planetary mining...
An artist rendering compares Earth (left) to the newly discovered Kepler-452b, which inhabits the “goldilocks zone” where liquid water could be present. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle NASA’s Kepler mission scientists have discovered and confirmed what...
Image credit: DSCOVR EPIC Team/NASA. This breathtaking image was captured by the EPIC (Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) about 1 million miles from Earth. The photo is the first of its kind captured since Apollo 17...
Image courtesy of NASA. Hawai‘i Community Foundation Gives Additional $10K Grant The County of Hawai‘i Department of Research and Development has awarded PISCES a $25,000 grant for the Center’s Moon RIDERS (Research Investigating Dust Expulsion Removal Systems)...
The latest image of Pluto captured on July 13, 2015 by New Horizons some 476,000 miles away reveals the dwarf planet’s “heart.” The photo took some 4.5 hours to transmit back to Earth 3 billion miles away, and is the most detailed image of the dwarf-planet...
NASA’s new commercial crew (from left to right, top to bottom): Bob Behnken, Eric Boe, Doug Hurley and Sunita Williams. Credit: NASA NASA has announced the selection of four American commercial space astronauts as part of an initiative to strengthen the U.S.’...
