Category: Science News

Study Reveals Latest Details of Comet 46P/Wirtanen’s Chemical Composition Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – Comet 46P/Wirtanen was releasing an unusual amount of alcohol as it made its historic flyby of Earth two […]

Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – An international team of astronomers has captured the very first evidence of a new type of supernova. The discovery confirms a prediction made four decades ago and […]

Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – Current and former astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have wrapped up a massive collaborative study that set out to determine if most […]

Machine-learning Methods Lead to Discovery of Rare “Quadruply Imaged Quasars” That Can Help Solve Cosmological Puzzles Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – With the help of machine-learning techniques, a team of astronomers has […]

Astronomers Discover the Most Distant Radio-loud Quasar Currently Known Maunakea, Hawaii – An international team of astronomers has pinpointed the most distant radio-bright quasar known so far. Using various telescopes […]

An Université de Montréal-led team of astronomers discovers that the core mass of exoplanet WASP-107b is much lower than previously thought possible for a gas-giant planet. Maunakea, Hawaii – The […]

Maunakea Observatories Provide Key Observations The most distant quasar known has been discovered. The quasar, seen just 670 million years after the Big Bang, is 1000 times more luminous than […]

University of Hawaiʻi Astronomers Using W. M. Keck Observatory Discover Ancient Magma World Orbiting a Chemically Unusual Star Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – “They should have sent a poet,” says Ellie Arroway […]

Years after its detection, astronomers have learned that a planet called KOI-5Ab orbits in a triple-star system with a skewed configuration. Maunakea, Hawaii – Shortly after NASA’s Kepler mission began operations […]

Gas Giant Takes 218 Days to Complete its Orbit Maunakea, Hawaii – Scientists aren’t usually able to measure the size of gigantic planets, like Jupiter or Saturn, which are far […]