UH astronomers help uncover array of strange exoplanet worlds
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...
Hawaiʻi astronomers discover death-defying planet
When our Sun reaches the end of its life, it will expand to 100 times its current size, enveloping the Earth. Many planets in other solar systems face a similar doom as their host stars grow old. But not all hope is lost, as astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi...
Best spectrum ever obtained of planetary-mass object outside our solar system
Researchers observing with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have pinpointed silicate cloud features in a distant planet’s atmosphere. The atmosphere is constantly rising, mixing, and moving during its 22-hour day, bringing hotter material up and pushing colder...
Planet spiraling to its doom discovered by UH astronomers
For the first time, astronomers have spotted an exoplanet with a decaying orbit around a star that resembles a future version of our Sun.
JWST Takes Its First Exoplanet Image
A team including UH astronomers has taken the first-ever direct exoplanet image with JWST.