Applications for NexTech Hawaiʻi’s 2022 FishTank Design Competition are open! Big Island students in grades 6–12 are eligible to apply for this annual STEM challenge focused on finding practical solutions for local problems. This year’s theme is...
Above: A trail of debris scatters in the wake of asteroid moonlet Didymos after NASA’s DART spacecraft pummeled it surface. Credit: NASA/Hubble Space Telescope NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) in late September made history by using a spacecraft to...
Above: The DART spacecraft captured this image of the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos on Sept. 26 just 11 seconds before impact. Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL After orbiting the Sun for 10 months in pursuit of an asteroid, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)...
Credit: NASA NASA is poised to launch Artemis I, the first in the Artemis Program’s series of planned missions to return humans to the Moon in the coming years. The 1.3-million-mile flight is scheduled for launch on Saturday, Sept. 3, at 8:17 a.m. HST and will...
Credit: NASA Continuing Hawaiʻi’s important role in lunar exploration, the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa will soon begin a new NASA-funded project to engage Native Hawaiian students in planetary science. In collaboration with Honua Scholars, the project...
Credit: AMOS/SGAC Are you a student or young professional who is excited about space careers? Check out the 5th Annual EMER-GEN Program on Maui, Sept. 25 to 27. Participants will meet space professionals from academia and the public/private sectors while developing...
