He's learning about the strong connection many Native Hawaiians have to Mauna Kea. O'Meara is fascinated by the similarities between spirituality and astronomy. "We are fundamentally asking the ...

Instead, the eerie flying spiral light spotted by the Japanese Subaru Telescope on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea came from a SpaceX ... Japan’s National Astronomical Observatory, caught the odd moving ...

The Mauna Kea Observatories are used for scientific research across the electromagnetic spectrum from visible light to radio, and comprise the largest such facility in the world. Their ...

"The US has no better site in any of the 50 states than Mauna Kea,” said Doug Simons, Director at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy. In 1968, Hawaii’s Land Use Commission 1968 ...

A camera at the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii has captured an object as it burned up on re-entering Earth's atmosphere on 8 February. The Subaru-Asahi Star Camera, owned by the National ...

in cooperation with the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and the University of Tokyo, will livestream the Geminids from NAOJ’s Subaru Telescope at the Mauna Kea Observatory in ...

Several telescopes and observatories are already on the summit. But opponents say the telescope will desecrate sacred land atop Mauna Kea, the state’s highest peak and a place of religious ...

More snow has fallen in Hawaii this season than in New York City, according to data from the National Weather Service (NWS).