The U.S. Air Force wants to add seven new telescopes to the top of Haleakalā Volcano on Maui, prompting a familiar controversy over the desecration of sacred Native Hawaiian sites. About two years ago ...

Scientists observing telescopic images from Mt. Haleakala on Maui have taken a leap forward in understanding solar flares that sometimes knock satellites off course and out of orbit. The flares are ...

The Air Force has extended the public comment period for a controversial plan to add up to seven telescopes on a small parcel atop a Maui mountain regarded as sacred by some native Hawaiians. The ...

Air Force Secretary Troy Meink’s confirmation that the United States has deployed weapons in orbit has raised new concerns on Maui about the Air Force’s plan to build up to seven more telescopes atop ...

The University of Hawaii’s newest telescope, called PS1, was dedicated on Friday, June 30 in a ceremony on the summit of Haleakala. The telescope is a prototype for the larger Panoramic Survey ...

HONOLULU — Hawaii's Supreme Court on Thursday affirmed a permit to build a solar telescope on a Maui mountain. The ruling denies a challenge by a group seeking to protect the sacredness of the summit ...

Despite some daunting setbacks, executives with the Thirty Meter Telescope aren’t giving up on their plans to build it on Mauna Kea, and are investigating the possibility the observatory could be ...

Astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) and engineers from Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) atop Haleakalā helped make a 14-year-old Idaho boy’s dream come true during a ...

HONOLULU (AP) — The National Science Foundation has launched an informal outreach to Hawaii about possible funding efforts for the stalled Thirty Meter Telescope project. The effort by the nation’s ...

Say hello to the new The Thirty Meter Telescope, it's the largest telescope in the world and is even bigger and sharper than the hubble space telescope and the James Webb telescope. What is the insane ...