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...
UH Institute for Astronomy is seeking participants for NASA’s 2023 International Space Apps Challenge in Hawaiʻi during Oct. 7–8. This annual global hackathon aims to inspire collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking about space science and exploration....
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...
Above: Chandrayaan-3 launches from Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, India on July 14, 2023. Credit: ISRO India is poised to become only the fourth country in the world to successfully land on the moon. On the heels of the U.S., Russia, and China, the Indian...
A team of researchers led by the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy has been awarded $4 million by NASA to develop a new generation of ultra-sensitive sensors that can directly image distant exoplanets. The technology will support a 6-meter space telescope...
