In addition to the TMT, proposed federal funding cuts threaten the world-class Keck and Gemini observatories, the solar ...

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

Many were deeply disheartened to learn that the National Science Foundation has defunded Hawaii’s Thirty Meter Telescope ...

The Conversation spoke to John De Fries, executive director of the Maunakea Stewardship and Oversight Authority, about the ...

Sylvester Onaonanamaka “Onaona” Ah Yee, 76, of Hilo died May 14 at Hilo Benioff Medical Center. He was a 1967 graduate of Ka‘u High School. Online condolences: homelanimemorialpark.com. Survived by ...

ISN’T this where the dinosaurs come and eat us?” I joke.  We’re ten minutes into our hiking tour of O’ahu — one of the eight ...

The Hōkūala Scholarship honors students who have excelled in the Maunakea Scholars program and intend to study astronomy in ...

No fewer than 13 observatories, home to some of the world’s largest telescopes, are positioned here. Don’t miss Mauna Kea rises from the ocean floor and its total height of 10,210 metres makes ...

Astrotourism isn't new. In 2022, U.S. national parks saw 312 million visitors spend an estimated $23.9 billion to explore those International Dark Sky areas, mostly in the Southeast. Then on April 8, ...

A giant exoplanet is surprisingly chill given how close it is to its red dwarf star — perhaps because the star is so little.

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

NSF budget proposal cuts funding for the contested Thirty Meter Telescope; focus shifts to Giant Magellan Telescope.