Space exploration

An upgrade concentration in aerospace engineering (AEC) at the University of Hawaii in Mānoa is about to take off, which will translate into more training opportunities for aerospace engineering students and the promise of expanding the local workforce in the field. AEC, which was launched in 2019, will be transferred …

The Red Planet rotorcraft will go from demonstrating the possibility of a flight on Mars to demonstrating the flight operations that future planes could use. NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter has a new mission. After proving that powered and controlled flight is possible on the Red Planet, the Ingenuity experiment will …

Distinguished University of Florida professor has been named co-chair of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Decadal 2023-32 Survey of Biological and Physical Sciences Research in Space, a guide sponsored by NASA for the next 10 years the priorities of the study. Rob Ferl, professor of horticultural sciences …

2018 LA, a 1.5m-wide asteroid that harmlessly disintegrated over Botswana, Africa, just hours after its discovery on June 2, 2018, is just the second asteroid detected in the space before its impact on the earth. According to new research, 2018 LA originated from the inner main asteroid belt, where the …

HOUSTON (CW39) NASA’s last telescope to reach the stars since it was first installed in June or 2017. The images it has returned with are breathtaking. Now he’s captured a star that’s about to turn into a black hole! NASA We’re talking about NASA’s NICER telescope. Sitting safely above the …

Dr Michaela Musilova is the director of Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HIGH SEA), which conducts analog missions to the Moon and Mars for scientific research in a habitat of the Mauna Loa volcano. Currently, she is in command of the two-week Selene IV lunar mission and contributed to …