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 (AP) — Hundreds of protesters on a Hawaii mountain road erupted in cheers Wednesday after construction crews turned around and retreated from the site for what would be one of the world’s ...

However, astronomers in Hawaii just spotted a pair of exciting discoveries — a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf — using Japan ...

FILE - This Aug. 31, 2015, file photo shows telescopes on the summit of Mauna Kea on Hawaii's Big Island. Hawaii's Supreme Court upheld a decision to grant a construction permit for an embattled, ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Scientists hoping to build a telescope that will allow them to see 13 billion light years away, offering a look into the early years of the universe, are facing opposition from Native ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...