Regents approve proposed Maunakea administrative rules
The University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents amend the proposed administrative rules for commercial activity on the Maunakea area managed by UH.
Astronomy graduate student awarded three-year NASA fellowship
Anna Payne is the first UH student to receive this award, worth $55,000 a year.
Regents to consider proposed Maunakea rules and stewardship resolution
The proposed draft of the administrative rules for UH-managed lands on Maunakea is now available for public review along with related supporting materials.
Search Advisory Committee formed for the Institute for Astronomy director search
The search process will convene over the fall semester with finalists invited to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa campus in spring 2020 semester.
UH team unravels origin, chemical makeup of Titan’s dunes
Physical chemist Ralf I. Kaiser and fellow researchers examined remote sensing data regarding NASA’s Cassini–Huygens mission to Titan.
UH board moves meeting on Maunakea administrative rules to Hawaiʻi Island
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.
Black hole shreds star, UH astronomer on discovery team
For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the immediate aftermath of a star being violently ripped apart by a supermassive black hole.
UH astronomy team helps confirm 2nd potential interstellar object
The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa astronomers help confirm the discovery of a comet scientists believe may have originated from outside the solar system.
Are black holes made of dark energy?
UH Mānoa researchers have identified and corrected a subtle error that was made when applying Einstein’s equations to model the growth of the universe
Maunakea telescopes win the ‘Oscars of Science’ for Pōwehi
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.
