The Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems and the Google Lunar XPRIZE have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to establish cooperative relations in the emerging commercial space industry, as well as collaborative efforts in education. The...
Image: Kealakehe High School teacher Justin Brown, accompanied by his students, briefing visitors at the `Imiloa Astronomy Center on the PISCES ‘Moon RIDERS’ lunar flight experiment during a Journey through the Universe event. The Pacific International...
Image Credit: Samantha Cristoforetti/ESA/NASA. European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti captured this amazing view of Hawaii Island some 200 miles overhead from the International Space Station (ISS) late last month. Cristoforetti shared her photo on...
Image: Artist’s rendering of NASA’s Dawn spacecraft approaching the dwarf planet Ceres. Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechNASA’s Dawn spacecraft is slated to become the first probe to rendezvous with a dwarf planet Thursday evening (Mar. 5) in the main asteroid...
On any given day, there are an estimated 25 million objects in the skies and nearly 100 tons of meteorites that make contact with Earth’s surface. While most of them are the size of a grain of sand, objects larger than 1.5 km in diameter could result in catastrophic...
Above: Artist rendering of Astrobotic’s lunar rover on the lunar surface. Credit: Astrobotic. Two GLXP teams are teaming up to reach the lunar surface together aboard a rocket which could result in a sort of lunar NASCAR race to claim the grand prize in the...
