Venus is currently visible near the Pleiades star cluster in the pre-dawn sky ... and moonset are given in local time from ...

Climbing to 60° high in the east two hours before sunrise, the constellation Andromeda lies just to the upper right of the ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - An international team of astrophysicists have uncovered a possible origin of fast X-ray transients ...

What new methods can be developed in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI)? This is what a recent white paper submitted to the 2025 NASA Decadal Astrobiology Research and Exploration ...

Trundling along the ecliptic plane in Virgo, our satellite hangs near the bright star Spica in the evening sky.

An artist’s concept of the famous Wolf-Rayet 104 “pinwheel star,” previously nicknamed the “Death Star.” W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko/W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko ...

Hawaii’s significant contribution to science, particularly those discoveries made through telescope installations on two ...

The "Demon Star" Algol is among the easiest variable stars — perfect for beginner skywatchers to start with. Its naked-eye brightness dims noticeably for about 10 hours once every two days, 20 ...

Astronomers were able to watch the unusually violent death of a red supergiant star ... Bright radiation was detected in the summer of 2020 by the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy ...

However, the star at the heart of this new research, located in the NGC 5731 galaxy about 120 million light-years away from Earth, was 10 times more massive than the sun before it exploded.

Stock image of the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. This wasn't the only surprising development from the new analysis of HD 219134—as the team also found that the star is more ...

Astronomers may have seen a star gulp down a black hole and explode. ... The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review. Vol 21, November 2013. doi: 10.1007/s00159-013-0059-2. About Adam Mann.