“Cosmological Coupling” – New Evidence Points to Black Holes as Source of Dark Energy
Searching through existing data spanning 9 billion years, a team of researchers led by scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa has uncovered the…
Searching through existing data spanning 9 billion years, a team of researchers led by scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa has uncovered the…
According to new research, chances to see rainbows will rise in northern latitudes while falling in many tropical regions. According to a recent study conducted…
Using future projections from the latest generation of Earth System Models, a recent study published in Science Advances found that most of the world’s ocean…
We made it! Perseverance is at the delta, and showering us with incredible images to pore over. Mars 2020 is officially out of “Rapid Traverse”…
The previously elusive methanediol molecule of importance to the organic, atmospheric science, and astrochemistry communities has been synthetically produced for the first time by University…
Sophisticated analysis of a rock sample taken from the Moon during the Apollo 17 mission nearly 50 years ago revealed new information about the complex…
Everything in our universe moves, but the timescales needed to see motion are often vastly greater than human lifetimes. In a major new study, a…
Science as Perseverance dislodges pebbles and prepares to head back north. We’ll soon be on the move again after shaking loose some pesky pebbles that…
Recent breakthroughs in multiple fields of study now allow researchers to follow the entire life cycle of ocean fishes—from when and where they are spawned,…
Astronomers at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) are part of a team that recently discovered three planets orbiting dangerously close to stars…
Using a University of Hawaiʻi telescope on Haleakala and another on Maunakea, astronomers, for the very first time, imaged the dramatic end to a red…
The history of life on Earth has been marked five times by events of mass biodiversity extinction caused by extreme natural phenomena. Today, many experts…
Earthquakes of similar magnitude can cause tsunamis of greatly varying sizes. This commonly observed, but not well-understood phenomenon has hindered reliable warnings of local tsunamis….
A new technique developed in part by University of Hawaiʻi astronomer Nader Haghighipour has allowed scientists to quickly detect a transiting exoplanet with two suns….
Over the past 6 years, gravitational wave observatories have been detecting black hole mergers, verifying a major prediction of Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity. But…
One of the youngest planets ever found around a distant infant star has been discovered by an international team of scientists led by University of…
Coral reefs are among the most biologically diverse, complex, and productive ecosystems on the planet. Most of coral reef biodiversity consists of tiny organisms living…
Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets — planets beyond our solar system — but few have been directly imaged, because they are extremely difficult to…