HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A University of Hawaii telescope on Mauna Kea has been chosen as a key element in the newly-approved $19.5 million NASA Landolt Space Mission. The mission encompasses ...

HONOLULU — The earthquake that rocked Hawaii damaged some of the world’s most advanced equipment for gazing into outer space. Scientists at many of the 13 telescopes atop Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano ...

Work to decommission a pair of Maunakea telescopes will resume this month. Work began on disassembling the Caltech facility last year. The observatory’s 34-foot-diameter telescope and primary mirror ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Three Hawaii observatories are said to be playing a critical role in the Euclid space telescope mission that launched from Florida on Saturday. The telescope will spend over ...

Maui officials voted Wednesday, June 5, 2024, to oppose a U.S. military proposal to build new telescopes on the summit of Haleakala volcano. (Andrew Selsky/AP) HONOLULU — Local officials on the ...

Many Hawaii residents oppose plans from the U.S. Space Force to build a suite of new telescopes designed to track satellites and prevent them from colliding in orbit. The Department of the Air Force ...

HONOLULU (AP) — A project to build a giant telescope near the summit of Mauna Kea has the right to move forward, but Hawaii has failed the mountain in many ways, Gov. David Ige said Tuesday. Amid ...

Hawaii's Supreme Court makes a controversial decision to approve a telescope. Hawaii’s Supreme Court made a controversial decision on a long-debated issue by voting in favor of continuing the ...

Walter Steiger was a scientist with Texas roots who helped pioneer the establishment of astronomy from telescopes atop Hawaii's highest mountains. Steiger was born in Colorado but spent his formative ...

WASHINGTON >> Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s star – one of our closest stellar neighbors — though they concluded that all of them are too hot to harbor ...

(Reuters) - A team of scientists won approval from Hawaii officials on Thursday to build a $1.4 billion telescope atop a volcano indigenous people consider sacred, but opponents vowed to continue ...