UH scientists among world’s most influential researchers
The list recognizes UH scientists who have demonstrated significant influence through publishing multiple highly cited papers during the last decade.
Asteroid defense test success confirmed by Hawaiʻi telescopes
UH-operated telescopes are at the forefront of the world's efforts to discover Near-Earth objects.
UH astronomers capture historic NASA spacecraft, asteroid collision
Hawaiʻi astronomers observed the moment of impact using telescopes on Maunakea and in South Africa.
UH astronomers map distances to 56,000 galaxies, largest-ever catalog
UH astronomers have helped assemble the largest-ever compilation of high-precision galaxy distances, called Cosmicflows-4.
UH astronomers to track impact of spacecraft, asteroid collision
Astronomers will use telescopes on Maunakea and Haleakalā to collect data and determine how asteroid Dimorphos was impacted.
NASA’s new space telescope takes its first picture of an exoplanet
Exoplanet HIP 65426 b has a mass of 6–12 times that of Jupiter.
UH astronomers produce catalog to extensively map universe
IfA researchers help produce a massive new catalog of high-fidelity distance estimates to more than 350 million galaxies.
UH discovery among first images captured by Webb Space Telescope
SMACSJ0723 was first pinpointed by IfA researchers nearly 20 years ago.
Pioneering UH female astronomer featured in new book on navigating male-dominated field
Ann Merchant Boesgaard is an astronomer emerita at IfA who began her career at UH in 1967.
Maunakea telescopes capture near-Sun comet roasting to death
The sighting could help explain the scarcity of the near-Sun population of periodic comets and asteroids.
