After years of protests that halted the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on Mauna Kea and divided communities in Hawaii, a major change in the management of the summit is underway ...

Hoku Kea was built in 1968 by the U.S. Air Force and was transferred to UH in 1970 and to UH Hilo in 2003. But it has not actually functioned as an observatory for more than a decade.

The observatories on Mauna Kea and Haleakala may be forced to cut operations under the fiscal year 2026 budget request for the National Science Foundation and NASA, which would decrease federal ...

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 ...

Sep. 12—A new draft master plan released today for University of Hawaii-managed lands on Mauna Kea reaffirms a commitment to reduce the number of observatories at the summit from the current 13 ...

HONOLULU (KITV4) -- Three Hawaii observatories play a critical role in the Euclid space telescope mission by adding color to images from space. Mauna Kea and Haleakala telescopes turn black and ...