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 | Apr 8, 2025 | Awards, News, Research, The Solar System, UH Press Release
Karen Meech has spent her career chasing big questions—like how habitable worlds form and whether or not life exists beyond Earth. Now, the University of Hawaiʻi astronomer has been named a 2024 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),...
by Roy Gal | Feb 2, 2025 | News, Research, The Solar System, UH Press Release
A University of Hawaiʻi-operated telescope has discovered a fairly large asteroid that may impact the Earth. The historic asteroid, 2024 YR4, was first detected by UH’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in December 2024 as it flew past the...
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 | Feb 1, 2024 | Awards, News, Research, The Solar System, UH Press Release
IfA astronomer Karen Meech has been named a fellow of the American Astronomical Society in recognition of her ground-breaking research on solar and extrasolar comets, the distribution of water in the solar system, organization of large international observing teams,...
by Roy Gal | Oct 24, 2023 | News, The Solar System, UH Press Release
A near-Earth asteroid now officially bears the name of John Jefferies, founder and first Director of the IfA.
