Gov. Josh Green pledges to help with the permitting process for sites where old telescopes have been decommissioned.

Gov. Josh Green is pledging to help “promptly ” establish a procedure to permit construction of a controversial telescope atop Mauna Kea on a site previously developed for observatory use. Green ...

HILO, Hawaii (Island News) – The Caltech Submillimeter Observatory telescope on Mauna Kea has been removed and is set to be shipped to Chile for re-use. The deconstruction of the dome and restoration ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A Mauna Kea telescope has paused operations after an attempted cyber attack threatened its computer systems on Wednesday. The telescope — known as the Gemini North — had its ...

PASADENA, Calif. — After careful evaluation and comparison between two outstanding candidate sites–Mauna Kea in Hawai’i and Cerro Armazones in Chile–the board of directors of the TMT Observatory ...

Researchers armed with a new "photonic lantern" device have discovered an unexpectedly asymmetrical disk of gas swirling ...

The University of Hawaii-owned UKIRT telescope will be decommissioned once all the necessary paperwork is completed. Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii officials voted to impose an emergency rule to restrict access to Mauna Kea after protesters blocked construction of a giant telescope. The Board of Land and Natural Resources ...

MAUNA KEA, Hawaii (Island News) -- The decommissioning of the Caltech Telescope on Mauna Kea is making progress. The telescope dome and other buildings have been removed, but work was delayed last ...

Telescopes atop Mauna Kea on Hawaii island are viewed by a media tour group on Jan. 12, 2016. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser welcomes all opinions. Want your voice to be heard? Submit a letter to the ...

MAUNA KEA, Hawaii — Shane Palacat-Nelsen’s voice drops to a reverent tone as he tells the story of the snow goddess Poliahu who Native Hawaiians believe inhabits the summit of Mauna Kea, the highest ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Subaru Telescope on Mauna Kea captured video last week of a mysterious light over Hawaii. And it wasn’t a bird, plane ... or UFO. Turns out the so-called “flying spiral” ...