A Keaʻau teacher’s kids came away with a deeper understanding of the cultural and scientific significance of their home ...

The National Science Foundation will no longer fund the controversial Thirty Meter Telescope planned for construction atop ...

A potential new dwarf planet has been discovered in the outer reaches of the solar system, and its existence poses the ...

Many Native Hawaiians consider Mauna Kea the most sacred place ... leverage to negotiate better terms with other observatories on Mauna Kea. He fears the mountain’s stewardship will stagnate ...

An observatory high on Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano that measures carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reported its highest ever seasonal peak concentration of the greenhouse gas. For the first time ...

The moment you glimpse the Milky Way stretched across the night sky, you realize how many stars city life has stolen from you ...

Astronomy has lost one of its most assiduous calculators of eclipses with the passing of astronomer Fred Espenak, known widely as "Mr. Eclipse." ...

Despite his doubts, he applied for a position at the Keck Observatory on Jan. 3, 2022. “I remember my first interview, I was so nauseous because I really wanted it. I was in cold sweats and I felt ...