The bright morning star Venus, moving quickly through Taurus, hangs in the predawn sky below the Seven Sisters open cluster.

HILO (HawaiiNewsNow) - A telescope that’s been on top of Mauna Kea for nearly 50 years will be removed. The University of Hawaii announced Friday that the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope, also ...

The University of Hawaiʻi’s Institute for Astronomy is beginning to decommission the UKIRT telescope on Maunakea, the university announced on June 27.

Look southeast before sunrise to find Venus just under 10° southwest of the Pleiades star cluster (M45). About 4.3° south of the Pleiades is Uranus, a faint but detectable planet with binoculars or a ...

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Scientists have unveiled groundbreaking direct images of a planet outside of our own solar system, taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. It is the first exoplanet discovered by the telescope, ...

The University of Hawaii’s 2.2-meter (88 inch) telescope on Maunakea has been recognized by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers as an IEEE Milestone, a significant honor spotlighting ...

View the First Quarter Moon, Venus points the way to Uranus, and Titan’s shadow transits Saturn in the sky this week.

Fun fact: James Webb Space Telescope’s exoplanet discovery While the new study marks the first time the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a new exoplanet through direct imaging, the ...

The University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy has set into motion the decommissioning process for a university-owned telescope atop Mauna Kea.

What just happened? The James Webb space telescope has captured what is likely to be the first exoplanet discovered using the advanced observatory. An international team of astronomers uncovered ...

The telescope has the largest digital camera ever made. It’s so precise that one image alone contains 10 million galaxies.