NASA Just Brought Its First Asteroid Sample Back to Earth

NASA Just Brought Its First Asteroid Sample Back to Earth

by | Sep 27, 2023

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...
Send a ‘Message in a Bottle’ Across the Solar System to Europa

Send a ‘Message in a Bottle’ Across the Solar System to Europa

by | Sep 1, 2023

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...
Hawaiʻi Plays Key Role in NASA’s Next-Gen Space Comms System

Hawaiʻi Plays Key Role in NASA’s Next-Gen Space Comms System

by | Dec 7, 2021

Image courtesy of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Since the dawn of space exploration, spacecraft and astronauts have communicated using radio frequency (RF) systems. As technology progressed and the data-gathering ability of rovers, probes, and satellites...
NASA Astronaut Speaking at UH-Hilo on Hubble Telescope

NASA Astronaut Speaking at UH-Hilo on Hubble Telescope

by | Nov 7, 2016

Come down to the University of Hawai’i at Hilo on Nov. 15 for an exciting space talk from a five time shuttle astronaut and MIT Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Dr. Jeff Hoffman. Dr. Hoffman will discuss what went wrong with the Hubble Space Telescope and how...