The special meeting is being relocated to Hawaiʻi Island to provide more opportunity for participation from the community most directly impacted by the proposed rules.
The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa astronomers help confirm the discovery of a comet scientists believe may have originated from outside the solar system.
Two telescopes were part of an international collaboration that won the $3 million 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics award, for the world’s first image of a supermassive black hole.
The ʻImiloa Astronomy Center in Hilo has been doing groundbreaking work to integrate modern science and indigenous culture since the center first opened in 2006.
The Institute for Astronomy is teaming up with the Hawaii Science and Technology Museum and Hilo students to launch a mini satellite, or CubeSat, into space.
The new instrument Nāmakanui (The Big Eyes) is comprised of three cameras and will allow astronomers to seek out the coldest gas and dust in the universe.
Observations of the near-Earth asteroid 2006 QV89 made with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope have ruled out any potential future impact threat to the Earth by this asteroid for the next century.