Worlds like Tatooine—the iconic twin-sun planet from Star Wars—are no longer confined to science fiction; they have entered ...

A special feature consisting of six research papers has been published in the journal of the Astronomical Society of Japan, ...

The Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for the formation, evolution, and current structure of the outer solar system. The object was found as ...

Astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and elsewhere have used the Subaru Telescope to perform deep imaging observations of a distant globular cluster known as NGC 5466 ...

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Akamai Workforce Initiative — an eight-week summer internship program that helps college students from Hawaii complete real-life science or technology ...

The Subaru Telescope image which led to the discovery of HIP 54515 b (indicated by the arrow). The planet’s host star has been blocked in this image. The star’s position is indicated by the star mark.

The Subaru Telescope on Mauna Kea will be able to observe more than 2,000 celestial objects at once with a new instrument that will go online in February. The Hawai‘i Community Foundation is doubling ...

Researchers have finished equipping the Subaru Telescope with a new special “compound eye,” culminating several years of effort. This new eye is an instrument featuring approximately 2,400 prisms ...

A team of astronomers has used the High Dispersion Spectrograph on the Subaru Telescope to conduct spectroscopic observations of Sun-like “superflare” stars first observed and cataloged by the Kepler ...