It’s a plane! It’s a ... Chinese satellite? A camera at a telescope on Mauna Kea captured a fiery object moving over Hawaii skies on Feb. 9. The Subaru-Asahi Star Camera — installed at the ...

Haleakala rises to 10,023 feet. It already hosts multiple University of Hawaii observatories and an existing collection of ...

After taking the first images of black holes, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is poised to reveal how black holes launch ...

Rifts over a dormant volcano in Hawaii have resurfaced in recent days, pitting the state's culture and history against its ambitions. Plans for a powerful new telescope near the summit of the ...

Protesters and authorities in Hawaii are facing off over plans to build a telescope on top of a mountain that some native Hawaiians consider sacred. Demonstrators have been forming a human ...

But today there are a dozen telescopes at the summit. In 2019, a protest over an additional observatory led Hawaii to pass a law giving both scientists and spiritual practitioners a say in its future.

The predicted path is based on observations from the University of Hawaii’s Atlas and Pan-STARRS survey telescopes. -- Graphic courtesy of Larry Denneau, UH Institute for Astronomy/Atlas and ...

HONOLULU Construction on a giant telescope will start again next week after lengthy court battles and passionate protests from those who say building it on Hawaii s tallest mountain will ...

UH-Hilo purchased the Hoku Kea telescope with a $650,000 National Science Foundation grant to replace an older 24-inch telescope at that site. NSF provided a separate $141,664 grant to pay for one ...

The National Science Foundation said Tuesday that it is launching a full environmental review of the stalled Thirty Meter Telescope project, a two-year process that could land hundreds of millions ...

In work to defend the planet against asteroids, a Hawaii-based researcher has used a Haleakala telescope to spot a comet, which was recently named after her. Heather A. Flewelling, who has her ...