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Potential $85M from NASA for University of Hawai‘i management of Maunakea telescope

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

UH-discovered asteroid to make close approach to Earth, no impact risk

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.

UH astronomer proposes space ‘umbrella’ to help mitigate effects of climate change

Scientists around the globe are working on myriad ways to reduce the effects of climate change, including István Szapudi, an astronomer at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy, who has devised a novel idea to lessen the amount of sunlight hitting our planet.

Asteroid Discovered by UH Telescope to Pass Earth Today

An asteroid discovered on July 20 by the University of Hawaiʻi’s Pan-STARRS1 telescope atop Haleakalā will make a close pass of Earth today.

MAUNAKEA OBSERVATORIES: Asteroid to Miss Earth

Observations of the near-Earth asteroid 2006 QV89 made with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope have ruled out any potential future impact threat to the Earth.

Researchers Say March Main-Belt Asteroid was ‘Impacted’

A research group, led by University of Hawai’i at Manoa astronomer David Tholen recently presented their work regarding the main-belt asteroid being impacted by an object in March of this year.

‘Halloween’ Asteroid to Journey Near Earth

A large asteroid, 2015 TB145, is expected to pass within 300,000 miles of Earth on Oct. 31.

NASA Aims to Lasso an Asteroid

Hear a NASA astronomer discuss the agency’s plans to capture an asteroid and put it into orbit around the earth in an Aug. 16 talk at the Imiloa Astronomy Center in Hilo.