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Ignacio is a category one hurricane and may strength further over the next day or so followed by weakening which is expected to begin Sunday.

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Ignacio is forecast to slowly strengthen through late Saturday (Aug 29). Behind Ignacio is Hurricane Jimena in the Eastern Pacific which has been strengthening.

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As of 11 p.m. HST Wednesday (Aug 26) Ignacio is forecast to continue strengthening. Behind Ignacio is Tropical Storm Jimena in the Eastern Pacific.

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Ignacio is strengthening, is expected to increase its forward speed and become a hurricane by Thursday (Aug 27).

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The W. M. Keck Observatory has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the “habitable zone” around a sun-like star.

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Exploration of volcanoes within our solar system has been much like the exploration of Hawaiian volcanoes in the 19th century: sporadic.

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On March 12, 2015, a blizzard warning was in effect on the Big Island of Hawaii. Snow is not unprecedented on tropical peaks, but it is uncommon.

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MEDIA RELEASE The Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems (PISCES) has signed a non-reimbursable Space Act Agreement with NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC), formally establishing a partnership to jointly work on a Hawaii high school STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) project that will give students the opportunity to develop a space experiment and […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Sen. Will Espero, along with officials from NASA, is urging the approval of Senate Bill 2583 Senate Draft 1, a bill related to launching Hawaii’s aerospace industry through investment in a laser optical communications ground station. The measure is awaiting a hearing in the House Finance committee. The purpose of the measure is […]

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Hawaii 24/7 Staff PISCES Akamai Workforce Initiative intern, Krystal Schlechter, concluded her work with PISCES in an explosive way – literally. Thanks to donations through PISCES fundraising efforts, the UH Hilo student and her mentor, John Hamilton, PISCES test logistics/education and public outreach manager witnessed NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) Mission blast […]

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MEDIA RELEASE The countdown has begun. Six researchers who have spent more than 100 days inside a remote habitat to simulate a long-duration space journey are finally returning to Earth. About 700 applicants vied for six spots in the HI-SEAS mission, which began in April and will conclude Aug. 13. These Earth-based researchers have been […]

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MEDIA RELEASE A team of scientists recently confirmed six, and possibly seven, planets orbiting a star system only 22 light-years from Earth. More importantly, three of those planets are super-Earths, lying in the Goldilocks Zone where liquid water could exist, making them possible candidates for the presence of life. This is the first system found […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Want to go to Mars? The journey there is already happening. Hawaii Preparatory Academy’s top science students are monitoring and maintaining a key link in a long-term experiment to prepare for the first future human missions to the Red Planet. HPA’s science students are in charge of the instrumentation for the HI-SEAS (Hawaii […]

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NASA will pay tribute to the crews of Apollo 1 and space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, as well as other NASA colleagues, during the agency’s Day of Remembrance on Friday, Feb. 1, the 10th anniversary of the Columbia accident.

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