Newly-discovered planets will be ‘swallowed’ by their stars
IfA Astronomers are part of a team that recently discovered three planets orbiting dangerously close to stars nearing the ends of their lives.
A Rocky Planet Around One of Our Galaxy’s Oldest Stars
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...
Fastest Asteroid Around the Sun Discovered
A team including University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) astronomer David Tholen has discovered an asteroid with the shortest known orbital period around the Sun – only 113 days.
UH-discovered comet could become visible in spring 2022
A new comet discovered this summer by University of Hawaiʻi’s Pan-STARRS1 telescope atop Hakeakalā may become bright enough for spectators to see as it moves closer to Earth.
Massive COCONUTS exoplanet discovery led by UH grad student
Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets—planets beyond our solar system—but few have been directly imaged, because they are extremely difficult to see with existing telescopes.