The Space Report
Kauai Students At Wallops For Rocket Launch
Credit: University of Hawai'i PUHI, Hawaii (AP) — Three Kauai Community College students and their instructors are preparing to blast off a rocket with NASA. Marcus Yamaguchi, Nicholas Herrmann,...
Students Send Dispatches from NASA Trip to Volcano
Students are seen here with a NASA-funded science team on Kilauea’s lava fields. Credit: NASA In June, five student journalists from Stony Brook University’s Alan Alda Center for Communicating...
NASA Camera Captures Moon Transiting Earth
Credits: NASA/NOAA One of NASA's cameras captured pictures of the far side of the moon recently. According to NASA's website, the images were captured by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera...
Six Scientists Chosen for HI-SEAS Simulated Mars Trip
The scientists will spend 365 days in isolation starting Aug. 28. Photo: HI-SEAS. Six scientists will spend the next year in isolation as part of the upcoming Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and...
UH Hilo Robotics Team Tests School’s First Rover
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...
Kepler Mission Team Discovers Close ‘Cousin’ to Earth
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...
NASA Releases ‘EPIC’ Earth Image
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...
Hawai‘i County Awards PISCES Moon RIDERS Program $25K
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...
NASA Spacecraft Meets Pluto in Historic Flyby
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...
NASA Selects Astronauts for First U.S. Commercial Spaceflights
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...
NASA Spacecraft Nears Pluto for Historic Rendezvous
Image: Artist’s rendering of the New Horizons spacecraft approaching Pluto. Courtesy: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI Less than a week remains until NASA's New Horizons spacecraft encounters a historic flyby with...
STARS Students Complete 5-Day Journey through “Space”
STARS students stand outside the HI-SEAS Mars-simulation habitat, suited up for a space expedition on the rugged terrain of Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii. Stargazing, spacecraft missions, and visiting...