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A two-week mission to perform scientific experiments and test technological instruments needed for the future exploration of the Moon or Mars was successfully completed on Mauna Loa.

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Summer program for high school girls offers behind-the-scenes look at STEM careers

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Researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa are seeking crewmembers for a NASA-funded long-duration space exploration analog study.

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The Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation which simulates a space mission by four crewmembers has been canceled.

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UH Manoa’s Kim Binsted: ‘Looking out the single porthole window, all you can see are lava fields and Maunakea in the distance’

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Study provides new insights to address ‘menu fatigue’ and keep astronauts well-nourished

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MEDIA RELEASE Hawaii’s aerospace industry is getting another boost from the State. At Tuesday’s Bill Signing Ceremony held at the State Capitol, Lieutenant Governor Shan Tsutsui signed SB1256 into law on behalf of Governor Neil Abercrombie. Under the bill, The Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems (PISCES) will receive $400,000 to continue with technology […]

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(Volcano Watch is a weekly article written by scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.) E.T., the stranded alien botanist from the blockbuster 1982 movie, may have been the most popular extraterrestrial in recent history; but he had no identified home planet. In contrast, Mars and Martians have captured the imagination of science […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Martian landforms have been shaped by winds, water, lava flow, seasonal icing and other forces over millennia. This view shows color variations in bright layered deposits on a plateau near Juventae Chasma in the Valles Marineris region of Mars. A brown mantle covers portions of the bright deposits. Researchers have found that these […]

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  MEDIA RELEASE   NASA’s Mars Rover Opportunity is investigating a metallic meteorite the size of a large watermelon that is providing researchers more details about the Red Planet’s environmental history.  The rock, dubbed “Block Island,” is larger than any other known meteorite on Mars. Scientists calculate it is too massive to have hit the […]

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Using both the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility and the W.M. Keck Telescopes atop Mauna Kea, a team of NASA and university astronomers have definitively shown that a large amount of Methane is being released into the Martian atmosphere.

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