by Roy Gal | Jul 3, 2024 | Discoveries, News, Research, Slider, The Solar System, UH Press Release
An asteroid newly-discovered by one of our ATLAS telescopes passed close to Earth, inside the Moon’s orbit, during the evening of June 28.
by Roy Gal | May 23, 2024 | Current, Discoveries, Exoplanets, News, Research, Slider, UH Press Release
An international scientific team, with major contributions by astronomers at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA), has announced a new catalog of 120 confirmed and six new candidate exoplanets. They were discovered using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet...
by Roy Gal | Mar 5, 2024 | Discoveries, News, Research, Slider, Surveys, UH Press Release
IfA astronomers have uncovered the closest recorded occurrence of a star being torn apart by a supermassive black hole.
by Roy Gal | Sep 5, 2023 | Cosmology, Discoveries, Galaxy Clustering, News, Research, UH Press Release
A University of Hawaiʻi-led discovery of an immense bubble 820 million light years from Earth is believed to be a fossil-like remnant of the birth of the universe.
by Roy Gal | Jan 13, 2022 | Current, Discoveries, Exoplanets, News, Research, UH Press Release
IfA Astronomers are part of a team that recently discovered three planets orbiting dangerously close to stars nearing the ends of their lives.
by Roy Gal | Sep 6, 2021 | Current, Discoveries, Exoplanets, Galaxies
University of Hawaiʻi Astronomers Using W. M. Keck Observatory Discover Ancient Magma World Orbiting a Chemically Unusual Star “They should have sent a poet,” says Ellie Arroway in the film Contact as, suspended in outer space, she gazes upon a spiral...
