Intense solar flares, including larger “super flares” from other stars, are being studied to understand their impact and origins, with recent models indicating similar underlying…
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Titan orbits Saturn. Below Titan are the shadows cast by Saturn’s rings. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Scientists have discovered strike-slip faults on the icy moons…
Artist’s impression of a supermassive black hole. Cosmological coupling allows black holes to grow in mass without consuming gas or stars. Credit: UH Manoa Searching…
A double rainbow. According to new research, chances to see rainbows will rise in northern latitudes while falling in many tropical regions. According to a…
Using future projections from the latest generation of Earth System Models, a recent study published in Science Advances found that most of the world’s ocean…
This illustration depicts NASA’s Perseverance rover operating on the surface of Mars. Credit: NASA We made it! Perseverance is at the delta, and showering us…
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Sophisticated analysis of a rock sample taken from the Moon during the Apollo 17 mission nearly 50 years ago revealed…
Laniakea Supercluster superimposed on orbits and surfaces of mass density. Credit: University of Hawaiʻi Everything in our universe moves, but the timescales needed to see…
Artist’s rendition of what a planetary system similar to TOI-2337b, TOI-4329b, and TOI- 2669b might look like, where a hot Jupiter-like exoplanet orbits an evolved,…
An artist’s impression of a red supergiant star in the final year of its life emitting a tumultuous cloud of gas. This suggests at least…
Shells of land snails from Rurutu (Austral Islands, French Polynesia) — recently extinct before they were collected and described scientifically. Credit: O. Gargominy, A. Sartori…
Artist’s rendition of the Kepler-47 circumbinary planet system with its three planets. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle A new technique developed in part by University of Hawaiʻi…
The first rendered image of a black hole, illuminated by infalling matter. In this study, researchers have proposed a model where these objects can gain…
Experimental set-up of mesocosms at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology. Credit: Chris Jury, HIMB Coral reefs are among the most biologically diverse, complex, and…
Cleveland Volcano, Aleutian Islands eruption in 2006. Volcanism is one of the main carbon dioxide sources in the long-term carbon cycle balanced by weathering sinks,…
Illustration showing a multilayer conceptual model of the transport mechanism of fresh groundwater from onshore to offshore in Hawai‘i. Credit: University of Hawai’i Twice as…
A GEODE scenario does not change standard formation of structure in the Universe. Universe grows from left to right. Blue regions correspond to matter. GEODEs…
Waves crash on the Waikiki shoreline of O’ahu, Hawaii during a high tide. Credit: Hawaii Sea Grant King Tides Project, 2017. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0…