Researchers armed with a new "photonic lantern" device have discovered an unexpectedly asymmetrical disk of gas swirling ...

COURTESY CFHT This web camera photo shows the Canada –France –Hawaii Telescope near the summit of Mauna Kea this afternoon. Big Island summits are under a winter weather advisory until 6 a.m. Sunday.

Dry, windy conditions will persist the remainder of today and likely Saturday for much of the Big Island — with the threat of ...

Stars and satellites are meeting more frequently in the night sky, raising vital questions about the future of astronomy.

Three billion years ago, a sun -like star reached the end of its life, throwing off its outer layers following its red giant ...

The federal government has been—and must remain—a critical partner in foundational technological innovation and research ...

NASA and space agencies around the world have put the Earth's defenses on alert as the object known as 3I/ATLAS continues to ...

Earth has a new companion for the next 60 years or so — an asteroid-like object sharing the planet’s orbit around the sun.

Native Hawaiian advocacy, however anyone views it, is moving to new territory. Physically, the Native Hawaiian Convention ...

Multiple Mauna Kea observatories have been observing 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar comet. 3I/ATLAS originated from outside the ...

After a 38-year period of calm—the longest in its recorded history—Hawaii’s Mauna Loa has reawakened. At approximately 11:30 p.m. local time on Sunday, Mauna Loa, the largest active volcano in the ...

A Douglas County native who is an associate professor of astronomy at California Institute of Technology, or Caltech, ...