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University of Hawaiʻi students developed a project that could help support sustained human activity on the Moon, Mars and beyond.

Journey Through the Universe hosted its 22nd year with 46 volunteer educators visiting classrooms, participating in career panels and hosting community events all about astronomy.

New results — which were made using a variety of ground and space-based telescopes including W. M. Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea — strengthen the “Hubble tension,” a cosmic disagreement that could point to new physics governing the universe.

Much like seismic waves reveal Earth’s inner layers, these stellar vibrations gave scientists a rare glimpse beneath the star’s surface.

At age 48, UH Hilo student Raven Kromer will be interning at NASA to study the icy terrain of Jupiter’s moon Europa, hoping to find insights into the potential for life beyond Earth.

The array of young stars — all between 1 and 5 million years old — that is about 2,500 light-years, or 14.7 quadrillion miles, from Earth in the Milky Way. A composite image shows it in the shape of a tree with glowing steallar lights.

Earth and its constant cosmic companion have their final closest encounter of the year tonight. Moonrise is between 5;40 and 5:43 p.m. today, depending on where you are on the Big Island, but the moon will still look full through Sunday morning in case you miss it.

The annual event encourages moon enthusiasts and curious people around the globe to come together and learn about lunar science and exploration, take part in celestial observations and honor cultural and personal connections to Earth’s constant companion.

Survey observations using the Subaru Telescope’s ultra-widefield prime focus camera have revealed that there may be a population of small bodies further out in the Kuiper Belt waiting to be discovered.

Findings suggest that powerful radiation —  some12 times stronger than previously thought — could seriously impact a planet’s ability to sustain life.

The telescope funding comes from the NASA Near-Earth Object Observations Program.

The additional jewel in the Northern Crown constellation isn’t actually a star. It’s the light from an astronomical thermonuclear explosion caused by the buildup of pressure and heat in the binary system T Coronae Borealis, also dubbed the “Blaze Star,” 3,000 light-years away from Earth.

The asteroid, named 2024 MK, is about 575 feet or nearly two football fields across, and will brighten to visual magnitude 8, fainter than what is visible by the naked eye but easily detectable with binoculars or a small telescope.

The student-led mission aims to study solar energetic particle events and increase knowledge of the Sun.

The artificial star satellite is expected to help answer questions surrounding the speed and acceleration of the universe’s expansion.

Navy & NASA personnel held scoping sessions across Kaua‘i last week, to gather comments that will shape an environmental impact statement.

An international team of scientists, with the help of three observatories atop Mauna Kea on the Big Island, discovered the relatively close exoplanet dubbed Gliese 12 b in our galactic neighborhood.

“It was a beautiful purple and greenish tinge visible to the naked eye for about 5 minutes,” Brenda Trowbridge shared on social media.

East Hawai‘i was treated to a colorful show Tuesday evening as the sun set and into dusk with the appearance of rare wispy-like noctilucent clouds. The iridescent clouds thrilled and captivated those who saw them, in person and in photos on social media, hovering through the upper atmosphere.

The Space Sciences Initiative is expected to expand Hawaiʻi’s technology sector and create more high-paying jobs across the state.