Astronomers to deploy breakthrough technology at UH telescope
Outreach Home Monthly Star Chart Education Programs HI STAR Maunakea Scholars REU Faulkes AWI Press Releases Events Calendar Friends of the IfA Become a Friend Become a Donor The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.1 million grant to a University of Hawaiʻi...NASA awards grants to 3 UH grad students
Outreach Home Education Programs HI STAR Maunakea Scholars REU Faulkes AWI Press Releases Events Calendar Monthly Star Chart Friends of the IfA NASA awarded three graduate students at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa with $45,000 grants annually for up to three...
ASTRONOMERS MAP VAST VOID IN OUR COSMIC NEIGHBORHOOD
Outreach Home Education Programs HI STAR Maunakea Scholars REU Faulkes AWI Press Releases Events Calendar Monthly Star Chart Friends of the IfA Outreach Home Education Programs HI STAR Maunakea Scholars REU Faulkes AWI Press Releases Events Calendar Monthly Star Chart...
NASA contract awarded to UH Institute for Astronomy for observatory management
NASA has awarded a contract to the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy to continue to manage and operate the agency’s Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) on Maunakea. The potential value of the contract is approximately $30 million. About 30 IfA researchers and staff based in Hilo and Honolulu are involved in supporting the IRTF, which started operations 40 years ago this month.

ʻOumuamua is Not an Alien Spacecraft
An international team of asteroid and comet experts, including two from the University of Hawaiʻi, agrees on a natural origin for our first interstellar visitor.