Astronomy

Keck Observatory will present Dr. David Reitze of the Caltech LIGO laboratory on Aug. 10 at HPA Campus.

On the night of July 23, Gemini North cloud cameras atop Maunakea captured footage of gigantic jets, upper atmospheric lightning…

The award will fund the first phase of an ISRU planetary building block project using volcanic basalt.

Dr. Hasinger, Director of the Institute for Astronomy, will discuss highlights from his book, “Astronomy’s Limitless Journey.”

Abraham Loeb will present “Life in the Universe” on Thursday, July 6, at the Gates Performing Arts Center on the Hawaii Preparatory Academy campus in Waimea.

The new study reveals rocky, Earth-like planets and gaseous, mini-Neptunes orbiting distant stars.

‘Imiloa Astronomy Center’s first endowment fund honors the late educator and government planner Ilima Pi‘ianai‘a.

Astronomers have discovered the exact mass and temperature difference that sets apart successful stars and brown dwarfs.

A University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa researcher is among a group of scientists who have discovered signs of frost on the moon.

‘Imiloa’s next Maunakea Skies talk is “The Search for the Origin of Gold.”

W. M. Keck Observatory data has led to a first-of-its-kind test of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity.

Cohen was involved in the early chapters of Keck Observatory’s history and she served as the co-principal investigator for Keck Observatory’s first optical spectrograph.

Dr. Allison Peck will present “A Telescope the Size of the Earth” at the next Maunakea Skies Talk on Friday, May 19, at ‘Imiloa.

A team of astronomers has made the first measurements of small-scale ripples in the “cosmic web” using images gathered on Maunakea.

Dr. Licata will share insights from her research at Lake Waiau and will present “A Study of a Tropical Alpine Lake, Past and Present.”

To ensure the safety of visitors and staff, the area in the immediate proximity of UH88 will be fenced off to the public while renovations are taking place.

The W.M. Keck Observatory captured the very first successful science data last night from its newest, cutting-edge instrument, the Keck Cosmic Web Imager.

Scientists now have a detailed glimpse of what may have happened just after the Big Bang about 13.1 billion years ago.

A team of researchers have made a new discovery using data gathered by Gemini Telescope and Canada-France Hawaii Telescope on Maunakea revealing how distant planetoids arrived in the outer reaches of the Kuiper Belt. The Kuiper Belt consists of a massive swarm of icy, small planetoids on the outskirts of our Solar System. Much of these […]

This rare discovery, made using the world-class W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, could change the way scientists think about the evolution of galaxies.