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

Typically, telescopes are synonymous with bringing far-off objects close, but the newest member of the solar system was discovered using wide-field imaging. The Subaru Telescope has spotted a distant ...

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 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 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.

Astronomers have discovered "dust-shrouded supermassive black holes" in the early universe, less than 1 billion years after the Big Bang—a type of object that had previously escaped detection. An ...

Astronomers have discovered a previously unknown structure associated with a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way using the ...