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...
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,...