Mauna Kea bears a dusting of snow after a winter storm. In a major shift in strategy, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of ...

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

The U.S. military wants to continue live-fire training at Pohakuloa, a high-altitude plateau on Hawaii’s Big Island ...

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

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

For astronomers, Mauna Kea has always been attractive for its ideal observing conditions. At 13,800 feet (4,200 meters) high, the peak lies above much of the distorting effects of the atmosphere ...

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

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

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