Save the date! The 21st annual Astro Day at Prince Kuhio Plaza in Hilo is coming up on May 6. Learn about the amazing science happening here on Hawaiʻi Island during a day of all-ages activities, educational exhibits, and intriguing demonstrations—plus free giveaways...
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...
The Hawaii Science Technology Museum (HSTM) has launched a coordinated effort to produce 3D-printed personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care providers and first responders in Hawaii County amid the growing COVID-19 pandemic. The shields are in short supply...
Image: Artist rendering of an exoplanet orbiting two stars. Courtesy of WikiCommons. In the search for habitable alien worlds, Hawaii’s W.M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea has contributed a revelatory discovery of over 100 potential new exoplanets orbiting distant...