Breakthrough: UH team successfully locates incoming asteroid
For the first time, astronomers demonstrated that UH telescopes can provide sufficient warning to move people away from the impact site of an incoming asteroid.
Hilo AstroDay 2019 draws a crowd
AstroDay 2019, celebrating 18 years, brought science educators from around the state to Prince Kūhiō Plaza in Hilo.
Future UH Mānoa students earn telescope time through Maunakea Scholars
Kalani High School students, who were mentored by UH Institute for Astronomy staff, won telescope viewing time on Maunakea.
UH astronomer earns national award for solar research
Xudong Sun, assistant astronomer at the UH Mānoa's Institute for Astronomy, received a $620,590 grant for a five-year term from the National Science Foundation.
UH astronomer’s planet prediction verified in Star Wars-like system
This discovery cements the system's title as the most interesting of the binary-star worlds, and marks the first complete planetary system around a binary star.
UH Hilo professor names black hole capturing world’s attention
UH Hilo Hawaiian language professor and cultural practitioner Larry Kimura named the black hole Pōwehi, a name sourced from the Kumulipo.
UH team records self-destructing asteroid
Astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Institute for Astronomy detect that Asteroid Gault has begun to slowly disintegrate.
UH helps confirm first exoplanet candidate, 10 years after initial discovery
An international team of astronomers, led by a University of Hawaiʻi graduate student, announced the confirmation of the first exoplanet candidate.
UH astronomer identified as future leader with fellowship
Daniel Huber is one of 126 recipients across the U.S. and Canada to receive the Sloan Fellowship, which are given to those whose achievements and potential identify them as the next generation of scientific leaders.
Hawaiian students learn, name astronomical discoveries through ʻImiloa program
Hawaiʻi is the first place in the world to weave traditional indigenous practices into the process of officially naming astronomical discoveries at ʻImiloa Astronomy Center.
