One of the asteroids discovered through COIAS has recently been named Leilani, the first Hawaiian name assigned to a COIAS ...

Observations with the Euclid Space Telescope and ground-based facilities, including the Subaru Telescope, have led to the discovery of 31 quasars in the early Universe, powered by supermassive black ...

Families, friends, and community members are invited to gather for an evening of Japanese culture, music, dance, science, and stargazing at the Tanabata Block Party 2026, happening Saturday, August 22 ...

Hawaiian culture, the natural environment of Maunakea, a star-filled sky, and the observatories near the Maunakea summit inspire Hawaiʻi Island students to create original artwork for the Maunakea ...

「COIAS」（コイアス：Come On! Impacting ASteroids!）は、すばる望遠鏡が撮像した画像から小惑星や彗星などの太陽系小天体を探索できるウェブアプリケーションです。このたび、COIAS で発見された ...

The Subaru Telescope observed the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on January 7, 2026 (UT), after it made its closest approach to the Sun. By observing colors in the coma around the comet, astronomers ...

Subaru Telescope’s advanced Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) has been given a new Hawaiian name, ʻŌnohiʻula. This name recognizes the instrument’s embodiment of the idea of "perceiving the realm of our ...

A large protocluster of galaxies that existed 12.6 billion years ago, first discovered with the Subaru Telescope, has been examined in detail using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The study ...

On the night of Monday, March 2, 2026, a total lunar eclipse unfolded over the Pacific region. Unlike a solar eclipse, which is visible only from a narrow path, a lunar eclipse can be seen from ...

SWIMS (Simultaneous-color Wide-field Infrared Multi-object Spectrograph) has been in development since 2009 for the 6.5-m telescope at the University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory (TAO) on the summit ...

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially begun full operations for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), one of the world's largest astronomical imaging surveys. Behind the scenes, ...

The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has released a major update to the Hyper Suprime-Cam Legacy Archive (HSCLA), making publicly available a uniquely comprehensive astronomical ...