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• Are We Alone? SETI Institute Head to Speak at UH Manoa (April 19, 2013)
• Annual Astronomy Open House on April 14 (April 1, 2013)
• $3M Donation Puts Pan-STARRS Back on Track (March 18, 2013)
• Astronomers Measure Distance to Neighbor Galaxy More Accurately Than Ever Before (March 6, 2013)
• Comet Will Be Visible from Hawaii in March (February 19, 2013)
• ATLAS: The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (February 15, 2013)
• Planets the Size of Earth Are Common (January 8, 2013)
• UH Observations Result in “All Clear” for Potential Asteroid Impact (December 21, 2012)
• Wide Binary Stars: Long-Distance Stellar Relationships (December 5, 2012)
• Astronomers Go Infrared to Map Brightest Galaxies in Universe (December 4, 2012)
• Advanced Technology Solar Telescope To Begin Construction (November 13, 2012)
• Mapping the Universe in 3-D (October 16, 2012)
• The World's Not Ending in 2012: Pre-Halloween Talk on Real Long-Term Threats to Humanity(October 15, 2012)
• Multitasking Supernova: Record-Breaking Stellar Explosion Helps Understand Far-off Galaxy (August 29, 2012)
• The First Double-Double: Astronomers Find Two Planets Orbiting a Two-Star System (August 28, 2012)
• The Sun's Almost Perfectly Round Shape Baffles Scientists (August 18, 2012)
• New Infrared Sensor to Revolutionize Infrared Astronomical Imaging (June 21, 2012)
• UH Astronomy to Provide Safe Venus Transit Viewing Venues(May 11, 2012)
• Nobel Laureate Brian Schmidt to Speak at UH Manoa (May 10, 2012)
• Astronomy Open House on April 29 (April 16, 2012)
• Earth’s Other Moons (March 27, 2012)
• Space Observations of Mercury Transits Yield Precise Solar Radius (March 20, 2012)
• UH Astronomer Receives Humboldt Fellowship (March 5, 2012)
• Potentially habitable planet found orbiting nearby star (February 2, 2012)
• "Cool" Gas May Form and Strengthen Sunspots (January 30, 2012)
• UH Astronomers, at the Right Place at the Right Time, Aid Significant Supernova Study(December 19, 2011)
• Award-Winning Documentary Comes to Honolulu (December 16, 2011)
• UH Astronomer Finds Planet in the Process of Forming (October 19. 2011)
• Pan-STARRS Telescope Finds New Distant Comet (June 16, 2011)
• Hawaii Astronomer Finds New Voracious Black Holes in the Early Universe (June 15, 2011)
• Nature’s Best Magnifying Glass Views Early Spiral Galaxy (March 26, 2011)
• Journey from Hawaii to the Edge of the Universe at the IfA Open House (March 30, 2011)
• New Candidate For Coldest ‘Star’ (March 23, 2011)
• Hawaii Astronomers Keep Tabs on Asteroid Apophis (March 9, 2011)
• PS1 Telescope Establishes Near-Earth Asteroid Discovery Record (February 24, 2011)
• Land Board Approves Haleakala Management Plan and Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (December 3, 2010)
• Tokunaga Wins Masursky Award (October 25, 2010)
• Newly Discovered Planet May Have Water on Its Surface (September 29, 2010)
• Pan-STARRS Discovers First Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (September 27, 2010)
• Spectrum of Young Extrasolar Planet Yields Surprising Results (August 20, 2010)
• Brown Dwarf Careens Around a Young Solar Analogue (July 28, 2010)
• Pan-STARRS 1 Telescope Begins Science Mission (June 16, 2010)
• Kuhn First U.S. Solar Scientist to Win Humboldt Award (May 20, 2010)
• Sun’s Constant Size Surprises Scientists (May 11, 2010)
• Astronomy Director to Use Award to Investigate Physics of Galaxies (April 27, 2010)
• Open House on April 18 (April 9, 2010)
• Black Holes in the Universe Gain Weight and Light Up During Galaxy Collisions (March 25, 2010)
• Near-Earth Encounters Leave Asteroids Pale and Shaken (January 26, 2010)
• Asteroid Apophis: Some Good News and Some Bad News (October 7, 2009)
• UH Astronomer Receives Planetary Astronomy Prize (October 6. 2009)
• IfA Director Awarded Schwarzschild Prize (September 23, 2009)
• Honolulu to Host Largest Astronomy Meeting Ever in 2015 (September 22, 2009)
• UH Astronomer Finds Giant Galaxy Hosting the Most Distant Supermassive Black Hole (September 1, 2009)
• Huge Storm Detected on Titan (August 12, 2009)
• NSF to Fund Workforce Development and Engineering Technology Program on Maui (July 31, 2009)
• A Pair of Solar Systems in the Making (June 30, 2009)
• A Sleeping Giant: The Submillimeter Array Finds a Massive Core in a Cold Dark Cloud (June 9, 2009)
• Powerful Lasers Help Astronomers Probe the Nature of Massive Galaxies in the Early Universe (June 9, 2009)
• Cosmic Heavyweights in Free-for-all (April 16, 2009)
• Institute for Astronomy Open House 2009 (March 12, 2009)
• IfA Director to Receive Highest German Astronomy Award (March 2, 2009)
• International Year of Astronomy 2009 Kickoff Event on Kauai (January 26, 2009)
• UHM Astronomer Len Cowie Wins Heineman Prize (January 26, 2009)
• UH Astronomer Uses Ultra-Sensitive Camera to Measure the Size of a Planet Orbiting a Distant Star (December 10, 2008)
• Einstein vs. Santa (November 28, 2008)
• Frontiers of Astronomy Community Event: "It's About Time" (November 25, 2008)
• Galaxy Clusters Trace Huge Cosmic Flow (September 24, 2008)
• Astronomers Discover Upper Limit for Mass of Giant Black Holes (September 9, 2008)
• IfA Maui to Hold Open House September 12 (August 29, 2008)
• MACS J0025.4-1222: A Clash of Clusters Provides Another Clue to Dark Matter (August 27, 2008)
• Hawaii Scientists Find Direct Evidence of “Dark Energy” in Supervoids and Superclusters (July 29, 2008)
• UH Astronomer, Team Use Gravitational Lensing to Weigh 70 Galaxies (July 21, 2008)
• Maui Public Talk: Stellar Winds: Observing Stars from Haleakala (July 17, 2008)
• Astronomers Weigh the Coldest Brown Dwarfs with Astronomy's Sharpest Eyes (June 2, 2008)
• Kaiser Elected Fellow of the British Royal Society (May 23, 2008)
• Maui Public Talk: Imaging in the 21st Century (May 12, 2008)
• Institute for Astronomy Open House 2008 (April 15, 2008)
• Maui Public Talk: Total Solar Eclipses and the Secrets of the Sun (April 3, 2008)
• Maui Public Talk: "Hawaiian Starlight" Film (March 11, 2008)
• Scientists to Explain "Origins of Oceans" (February 25, 2008)
• The Spinning Magnet of a Sun-like Star (February 12, 2008)
• Maui Public Talk: Stormy Weather in Space (February 5, 2008)
• UH Astronomers Win American Astronomical Society Prizes (February 4, 2008)
• A Rare Quartet of Stars May Unlock Secrets of Stellar Evolution (January 10, 2008)
• Hubble Reveals Massive Disk Galaxies in the Early Universe (January 8, 2008)
• Maui Public Talk: How to Use the Telescope You Received for Christmas (January 7, 2008)
• NASA and the Case of the Missing Comet (December 13, 2007)
• Maui Public Talk about the Interior of Stars and Extrasolar Planets (December 7, 2007)
• Einstein vs. Santa (December 5, 2007)
• Maui Public Talk on the Sun and Earth's Climate (November 9, 2007)
• Maui Public Talk on Asteroid and Comet Impacts (October 19, 2007)
• UH Astronomer Takes Sharpest Picture of Pluto System (October 11, 2007)
• UH Manoa Researchers Look to the Horizon of Future Planet Searches (October 11, 2007)
• New Theory Explains Ice on Mars (September 12, 2007)
• IfA to Hold First Maui Open House (September 11, 2007)
• World's Largest Digital Camera Installed on Maui Telescope (August 31, 2007)
• Black Holes in Feeding Frenzy (August 3, 2007)
• UH Astronomer To Share Major Prize (July 24, 2007)
• What's Up in the Universe? (June 12, 2007)
• May 2007 AAS Meeting Press Releases (May 28, 2007)
• Institute for Astronomy Open House 2007 (April 18, 2007)
• Meetings on Three Islands to Discuss Telescope Replacement (January 10, 2007)
• Star and Planet Tie the Knot (December 5, 2006)
• Mercury Transit Hawaiian Style Webcast November 8 (November 1, 2006)
• Astronomers unite to use Hawaii telescope (October 3, 2006)
• Searching for Life in the Universe (July 18, 2006)
• New Telescope Dedicated on Haleakala (July 5, 2006)
• Haleakala Telescope Finds Planet (May 18, 2006)
• Institute for Astronomy Open House 2006 (April 19, 2006)
• UH Eclipse Expedition Finds Cool Gas in the Desert (April 11, 2006)
• Astronomer to Speak on "The Origin of the Elements: Are We Made of Stardust?" (April 11, 2006)
• NASA's Chandra Finds Evidence for Quasar Ignition (March 23, 2006)
• New Class of Comets May Be the Source of Earth's Water (March 23, 2006)
• New Gemini Observatory Director is UH Graduate (March 1, 2006)
• UH Hilo Joins Hunt for Killer Asteroids (February 7, 2006)
• UH Astronomer Wins Award for Oxygen Study (January 31, 2006)
• X-rays Reveal What Makes the Milky Way Move (January 11, 2006)
• Astronomers Use "Laser-Vision" To Find (Strange) New Brown Dwarf Twins (January 10, 2006)
• Interstellar Dust Bunnies in Taurus: Baby Steps toward New Planets?
(January 9, 2006)
• New Comet Discovered from Mauna Kea (December 1, 2005)
• Hawaii Astronomers Track Down Source of Short Gamma-Ray Bursts (October 5, 2005)
• Hawaii Telescopes Catch Most Distant Explosion (September 12, 2005)
• Deep Impact: What We've Learned So Far (September 6, 2005)
• Record of Decision Issued for Outrigger Telescopes Project (August 5, 2005)
• SMA Confirms Proto-Planetary Systems Are Common in the Galaxy (June 14, 2005)
• Hawaii's Connection to the NASA Deep Impact Mission (June 9, 2005)
• UH astronomer elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences and National Academy of Sciences (May 5, 2005)
• UH Astronomers to Speak on “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the End of Everything” (April 23, 2005)
• Astronomy Open House 2005 (March 30, 2005)
• Planet-searcher Awarded Fellowship (March 17, 2005)
• Weight Limits for the Biggest Black Holes (February 16, 2005)
• Groundbreaking Scheduled for the Advanced Technology Research Center on Maui (January 11, 2005)
• Astronomy Consortium Chooses Haleakala as Site for the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (January 6, 2005)
• Unique Asteroid Search Strategy by University of Hawaii Astronomers Pays Off (December 29, 2004)
• Haleakala, Hawaii, Recommended for the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (October 20, 2004)
• Celebrating Its 25th Anniversary, the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Unveils a Stunning Image of the Cosmos (September 28, 2004)
• UH Astronomer Robert Joseph Receives NASA Public Service Medal (September 24, 2004)
• Public Lecture: Dr. Lennox L. Cowie, "First Light: The Birth of Stars and Galaxies" (September 15, 2004)
• Sharpest Image Ever Obtained of a Circumstellar Disk Reveals Signs of Young Planets (August 12, 2004)
• UH Astronomer Elected Fellow of the British Royal Society (July 23, 2004)
• Solar "Dark Energy" Illuminated (June 3, 2004)
• University of Hawaii Astronomer and Colleagues Find Evidence That Asteroids Change Color as They Age (May 17, 2004)
• UH Institute for Astronomy's Starlab Planetarium to visit Ward Warehouse on Saturday, April 24, 2004 (April 23, 2004)
• Public Lecture: Paul Coleman (Institute for Astronomy),"Kanaka Maoli Astronomy: Then and Now," Bishop Museum, Wednesday, April 21, 2004 (April 21, 2004)
• "Come See What We See" Open House at IfA April 18 (April 6, 2004)
• Astronomers Discover the Nearest Young Planet-Forming Star (February 26, 2004)
• Life on the International Space Station (January 30, 2004)
• Ten-Year-Old Supernova Mystery Is Solved (January 7, 2004)
• University of Hawaii Astronomers Release First Image from Gigantic New Infrared Camera (November 3, 2003)
• New NASA Astrobiology Lead Team at the University of Hawaii Receives $5 Million Grant (June 24, 2003)
• University of Hawaii Professor Receives Award from German Foundation (May 21, 2003)
• University of Hawaii Astronomers To Develop New Telescopes for "Killer Asteroid" Search (October 7, 2002)
• Spectacular Split Comet (57P/Du Toit-Neujmin-Delporte) (July 24, 2002)
• "TOPS" Workshop Events with Chief Joseph Chasing Horse (June 14, 2002)
• Toward Other Planetary Systems "TOPS" Astronomy Workshop Underway (June 10, 2002)
• The Case of the Missing Berryllium (June 3, 2002)
• Astronomers Ponder the Nature of an Ultracool Object in Orion (May 20, 2002)
• New Satellites of Jupiter (May 16, 2002)
• New Light on the Darkest Dwarfs (May 15, 2002)
• UH Institute for Astronomy Researcher Wins Prestigious Muhlmann Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (May 10, 2002)
• Mice at Play (April 30, 2002)
• Institute for Astronomy Wins $2 Million in New Federal Grants for Maui Research (April 4, 2002)
• Galaxy's Light Pushes Back Dark Ages of the Universe (March 6, 2002)
• Brown Dwarf Found around Nearby, Sun-Like Star (January 7, 2002)
• University of Hawaii Wins Major NASA Contract (March 19, 2001)
• Dedication of Institute for Astronomy Hilo Facility (February 22, 2001)
• Faulkes Telescope Draft Environmental Assessment Published (January 22, 2001)
• Eleven New Moons for Jupiter (January 8, 2001)
• Black Holes Younger, Meaner, and More Plentiful Than Previously Thought (December 12, 2000)
• Ghostly Reflections in the Pleiades (December 6, 2000)
• Discovery of a Very Low Mass Stellar Object in the Immediate Neighborhood of the Solar System (November 21, 2000)
• Scores of Newly Discovered Galaxy Clusters Have Broad Implications for Cosmology (November 8, 2000)
• UH Institute for Astronomy to Hold Open House (October 10, 2000)
• Seven Named to Mauna Kea Advisory Board (September 22, 2000)
• UHM Astronomer Receives International Award (August 25, 2000)
• Roddier Receives Regents' Medal (August 4, 2000)
• UH Research and Training Funding Sets New Record: $179 Million (July 21, 2000)
• Regents Approve Mauna Kea Master Plan (June 16, 2000)
• University of Munich Dean to Head University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (June 16, 2000)
• Mountains on the Sun Caused by Cyclone Waves (May 31, 2000)
• World's Largest Astronomical Observatories Now Accessible over Internet2 Networks:
  University of Hawai`i and AURA Connect Eleven Observatory Facilities on Mauna Kea Summit (April 18, 2000)
• Chambers Wins Board of Regents' Medal for Excellence in Teaching (August 27, 1999)
• NASA Taps UH Astronomer David Tholen for Asteroid Mission (July 1, 1999)
• ARCS Awards for 1999 Announced
  Scholar of the Year: Christopher Robinson Mullis, Institute for Astronomy (April 23, 1999)
• Dust Ring around Star Offers New Clues into Planet Formation (January 8, 1999)
• X-rays Reveal Previously Hidden View of the Universe's Skeleton (January 7, 1999)
• Ghost Galaxies (January 6, 1999)
• Groundbreaking for Institute for Astronomy Hilo Facility (September 10, 1998)
• The Hidden Universe Revealed: The Discovery of a New Population of Distant Star Forming Galaxies Obscured by Dust (July 15, 1998)
• Astronomers Find New Class of Asteroid (July 1, 1998)

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