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Two UH astronomers part of international team that agrees on a natural origin for ʻOumuamua

July 2, 2019

The first recorded interstellar visitor has natural origins, despite previous speculation by some other astronomers that the object could be an alien spacecraft.

Breakthrough: UH team successfully locates incoming asteroid

June 25, 2019

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.

UH team records self-destructing asteroid

March 28, 2019

Astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Institute for Astronomy detect that Asteroid Gault has begun to slowly disintegrate.

UH part of world’s largest digital sky survey

January 28, 2019

This second release contains more than 1.6 petabytes of data, making it the largest volume of astronomical information ever released.

UH Astronomer John Tonry elected to National Academy of Sciences

May 3, 2018

Tonry is an expert in developing technologies to survey the sky to find moving and variable objects such as exploding stars and asteroids.

Small asteroid or comet ‘visits’ from beyond the solar system

October 26, 2017

A small, recently discovered asteroid or comet appears to have originated from outside the solar system, if so it could be the first “interstellar object” to be observed and confirmed by astronomers.

UH part of astronomical discovery that changes understanding of universe

October 16, 2017

Institute for Astronomy researchers played a major role in one of the most significant astronomical discoveries in decades—the first observations of a binary neutron star merger and resulting kilonova explosion.