April 6, 2017
Maunakea, Hawaii – An international team of astronomers has, for the first time, spotted a massive, inactive galaxy from a time when the Universe was only 1.65 billion years old. This rare... Read more »
March 6, 2017
MAUNAKEA, HAWAI'I - A trip past the sun may have selectively altered the production of one form of water in a comet – an effect not seen by astronomers before, a new NASA study suggests.Astronomers... Read more »
February 13, 2017
International team of astronomers releases the largest-ever compilation of exoplanet-detecting observations, made from observatory atop MaunakeaMAUNAKEA, HAWAI'I - An international team of... Read more »
February 10, 2017
UCLA-led team uses Keck Telescope to discover object in the constellation Boötes with carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogenMany scientists believe the Earth was dry when it first formed, and that... Read more »
January 31, 2017
MAUNAKEA, HAWAI'I - A new device on the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii has delivered its first images, showing a ring of planet-forming dust around a star and, separately, a cool star-like body,... Read more »
January 27, 2017
MAUNAKEA, HAWAI'I - Astronomers have just made a new measurement of the Hubble constant, the rate at which the universe is expanding, and it doesn’t quite line up with a different estimate of the... Read more »
January 24, 2017
MAUNAKEA, HAWAI'I - W. M. Keck Observatory (Keck Observatory) is pushing the cutting edge of scientific discovery with the addition of the world's most sensitive instrument for measuring the... Read more »
October 20, 2016
MAUNA KEA, Hawaii— Jupiter's moon Io continues to be the most volcanically active body in the solar system, as documented by the longest series of frequent, high-resolution observations of the... Read more »
September 7, 2016
MAUNAKEA, Hawaii – A fossilized remnant of the early Milky Way harboring stars of hugely different ages has been discovered by an international team of astronomers. This stellar system located in... Read more »
August 25, 2016
MAUNAKEA, Hawaii — Using the world's most powerful telescopes, an international team of astronomers has discovered a massive galaxy that consists almost entirely of Dark Matter. Using the W. M.... Read more »