by Roy Gal | Jul 2, 2025 | Current, Discoveries, News, Research, Surveys, The Solar System, Top Stories, UH Press Release
One of the ATLAS telescopes operated by the University of Hawaiʻi has detected the third known interstellar (from outside our solar system) object to enter our solar system. Researchers say that it poses no danger to Earth.
by Roy Gal | Jul 3, 2024 | Discoveries, News, Research, 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, 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, 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.
