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

A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, 5.9 trillion miles. The researchers used data from the Hawaii island-based Gemini Telescope and Chile-based Very Large Telescope to confirm the ...

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

Saturn just solidified its title as ‘moon king’ with an updated tally of 274 satellites orbiting the gas giant. The record-breaking statistic puts Saturn way ahead of its moon-bearing competitors, as ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully detected auroras on Neptune for the first time ever, finishing a job that ...

Bradley says stargazing is a way to honor the ancestral knowledge that Hawaiians have used for centuries to navigate the ...

More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...

Back in 1969, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first set foot on the moon, scientists knew of just 31 other moons in our ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

Saturn now leads the solar system with 274 known moons. Scientists say many moons formed from past collisions.