The University of Hawaii-owned UKIRT telescope will be decommissioned once all the necessary paperwork is completed.

HILO (HawaiiNewsNow) - The telescope that has been on top of Mauna Kea for nearly 50 years will be removed. On Friday, ...

University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy last week officially began the decommissioning process for the UH-owned UKIRT ...

The announcement came after the National Science Foundation withdrew financial support for the Thirty Meter Telescope project ...

Mauna Kea is considered sacred to Native Hawaiians. It also happens to be ideal for space observatories. Now, a long running fight over the mountain's future may be coming to an end.

The federal government's decision not to fund the Thirty Meter Telescope played a role. But questions remain about where the ...

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs said it has pulled two longstanding lawsuits surrounding the management of Mauna Kea.

The University of Hawaiʻi's Institute for Astronomy is beginning to decommission the UKIRT telescope on Maunakea, the ...

Seeing numerous new faces blocking the access road up Mauna Kea, Mangauil told USA TODAY, takes his breath away. A leader of the movement, he stopped a TMT groundbreaking ceremony in 2014 and ...

The summits of Mauna Kea and nearby Mauna Loa were under a Winter Weather Advisory from Sunday through 6 a.m. Monday. "Additional snow accumulations up to 3 inches, mainly in the morning.