UH Mānoa Receives $800k Grant to Study Greener Rocket Fuels

by PISCES | Sep 29, 2025

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa has received an $800,000 grant from the U.S. Air Force to research green rocket and missile fuels that are safer, cheaper, and better for the environment. Professors Rui Sun and Ralf I. Kaiser of UH Mānoa’s Department of...

UH Mānoa Selected by NASA to Lead Instrument Team for Lunar Vehicle

by PISCES | Aug 5, 2025

Above: Artist rendering of NASA’s new Lunar Terrain Vehicle. Credit: NASA NASA has selected UH Mānoa scientists to help lead the development of a new lunar vehicle instrument that will prospect for hidden ice beneath the surface of the Moon. Called the Lunar...

UH Scientists Pioneer New Method to Find Hidden Water on the Moon

by PISCES | Apr 30, 2025

Above: Artist rendering of cosmic radar instrument over the Moon. Credit: UH News/Christian Miki University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa scientists have developed an innovative method to search for buried water ice on the Moon—a key resource for sustaining future lunar...

UH Mānoa Study Suggests Life May Have Begun in Space, Not Just on Earth

by PISCES | Apr 23, 2025

Artist rendering. Credit: UH News A groundbreaking study from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Department of Chemistry has revealed that key molecules essential to the metabolic processes that power life may have formed in deep space long before Earth came into...

UH Mānoa Scientist Joins NASA Lucy Mission to Study Jupiter’s Trojan Asteroids

by PISCES | Mar 17, 2025

Artist depiction of the Lucy spacecraft near a Trojan asteroid. Credit: UH News/NASA UH Mānoa planetary scientist Emily Costello has been selected by NASA to join its Lucy mission—the first spacecraft to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids. Costello, who is a...