Maunakea Scholar wins $10,000 Mānoa astronomy scholarship
Jean Claude “JC” Dumaslan is only the second double winner of Maunakea Scholars telescope time in the program’s four-year history.
Two UH astronomers part of international team that agrees on a natural origin for ʻOumuamua
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
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.
San Andreas research earns earthquake modeler ARCS Scholar of the Year
Thirteen student scholars from the University of Hawaiʻiat Mānoa were recognized at the ARCSFoundation Honolulu Chapter's 2019 banquet.
Hilo AstroDay 2019 draws a crowd
AstroDay 2019, celebrating 18 years, brought science educators from around the state to Prince Kūhiō Plaza in Hilo.
Future UH Mānoa students earn telescope time through Maunakea Scholars
Kalani High School students, who were mentored by UH Institute for Astronomy staff, won telescope viewing time on Maunakea.
UH astronomer earns national award for solar research
Xudong Sun, assistant astronomer at the UH Mānoa's Institute for Astronomy, received a $620,590 grant for a five-year term from the National Science Foundation.
UH astronomer’s planet prediction verified in Star Wars-like system
This discovery cements the system's title as the most interesting of the binary-star worlds, and marks the first complete planetary system around a binary star.
UH Hilo professor names black hole capturing world’s attention
UH Hilo Hawaiian language professor and cultural practitioner Larry Kimura named the black hole Pōwehi, a name sourced from the Kumulipo.
UH team records self-destructing asteroid
Astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Institute for Astronomy detect that Asteroid Gault has begun to slowly disintegrate.
