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 ...

The celestial object nicknamed “Ammonite” is believed to be a relic from the earliest days of the solar system. Photo courtesy Nature Astronomy Scientists using the Subaru Telescope on Maunakea in ...

The Princeton astrophysicists entered into a decade-long collaboration with NAOJ, which has agreed to grant the Princeton researchers access to the Mauana Kea, Hawaii-based, 8.2-meter Subaru Telescope ...

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.

"This shows how effective the approach of 'Discover with Subaru Telescope, explore with James Webb' can be." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

The orbit of 2023 KQ 14 (in red) compared to the orbits of the other three sednoids (in white). 2023 KQ 14 was discovered near its perihelion at a distance of 71 astronomical units (71 times the ...