By studying faint vibrations within stars, scientists using the Keck Planet Finder have discovered internal features that ...

Hawaii’s significant contribution to science, particularly those discoveries made through telescope installations on two ...

University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy last week officially began the decommissioning process for the UH-owned UKIRT ...

A telescope that’s been on top of Mauna Kea for nearly 50 years will be removed. The University of Hawaii announced Friday that the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope, also known as the UKIRT ...

A new animated map sheds light on the superhot "zombie star" at the heart of a nebula leftover from a distant supernova ...

Matsuda represents not just the Keck Observatory, but all of the Mauna Kea observatories, 13 in all at the moment, and will work with cultural practitioners and community leaders to develop the ...

Over the last 50 years, astronomers have mounted 13 giant astronomical observatories on Mauna Kea’s summit. In 2019, Native Hawaiians including Piscioitta staged a year-long protest over ...

Mauna Kea’s telescopes are at the forefront of discoveries about dark energy, Simons said. Lanakila Mangauil, a Native Hawaiian spiritual practitioner, was around 9 when he first stepped on the ...

MAUNA KEA, Hawaii (AP) — Mauna Kea is a dormant 14,000-foot shield volcano. In Native Hawaiian lore, it is the first-born son of the sky father and earth mother.

Two Muana Kea Observatories in Hawai’i, W. M. Keck Observatory and Gemini North were used to find the pair of black holes “embedded within two galaxies that merged when the universe was three ...