Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...

The Kamaʻāina Observatory Experience, a free program offered by Maunakea Observatories, has returned to give island residents ...

The Maunakea Observatories has announced the return of the Kama‘aina Observatory Experience, a program offering Hawaii ...

Elon Musk's DOGE is considering terminating the lease of a tiny office that supports a huge climate science project.

Learn about the 128 newly discovered moons of Saturn, believed to be the remnants of collisions that occurred early in the ...

Sheppard, David C. Jewitt, and Jan T. Kleyna using a wide-field camera on the Subaru 8.2-m reflector telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Albiorix: Discovered on November 9, 2000, by Matthew J.

A huge haul of 128 newfound satellites might be a hint of past collisions in the planet’s orbit, or something else.

The tours offer the chance for residents to learn about the scientific, cultural, and environmental importance of the mauna, as well as career pathways in engineering and astronomy.

In 2022 NOAA staff were able to set up a temporary measurement site at a University of Hawai’i astronomical observatory located on nearby Mauna Kea. The Mauna Loa Observatory began taking ...

Saturn was already the reigning champion in the moon department. Now, with 274, Saturn has more moons than all the other ...

A "classification" is when a volunteer or citizen scientist finishes marking up or sorting one image or other piece of data.