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.
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.1 million grant to an IfA scientist to install a high-tech shape-shifting secondary mirror on the UH 2.2-meter telescope on Maunakea.
The team constructed a cosmographic map that highlights the boundary between the collection of matter and the absence of matter that defines the edge of the Local Void.
The first recorded interstellar visitor has natural origins, despite previous speculation by some other astronomers that the object could be an alien spacecraft.