Hawaii astronomer discovers massive extrasolar planet with Maunakea telescope. Our solar system has a king. The planet Jupiter, named for the most powerful god in…
Unique experiments at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source shine a light on a new pathway for carbon chemistry to evolve in space. A team of…
When Kīlauea Volcano erupted in 2018, it injected millions of cubic feet of molten lava into the nutrient-poor waters off Hawaiʻi Island. The lava-impacted seawater…
Astronomers have discovered a new object at the edge of our solar system. The new extremely distant object far beyond Pluto has an orbit that…
Astronomers and physicists around the world, including in Hawaii, have begun to unravel a long-standing cosmic mystery. Using a vast array of telescopes in space…
Extremely distant galaxies are usually too faint to be seen, even by the largest telescopes. But nature has a solution: gravitational lensing, predicted by Albert…
A team of astronomers from Maryland, Hawaii, Israel, and France has produced the most detailed map ever of the orbits of galaxies in our extended…
Using a telescope that robotically searches for planets on clear nights, astronomers have discovered three super-Earth mass planets orbiting HD 7924. A team of astronomers…
New data reveal the highest global mean sea surface temperatures ever recorded, indicating that the 14-year-long pause in ocean warming has come to an end….
New research shows that interplanetary dust particles from comets, asteroids, and leftover debris from the birth of the solar system, could have helped jump-start life…
Researchers used the Facility Infrared Spectropolarimeter (FIRS) at the National Solar Observatory’s Dunn Solar Telescope to analyze sunspot emergence and cooling. Their research leads them…
A team of researchers comprised of climate modelers, marine conservationists, ocean chemists, biologists, and ecologists published their recent research into ocean acidity in the January…