Mauna Kea is considered sacred to Native Hawaiians. It also happens to be ideal for space observatories. Now, a long running fight over the mountain's future may be coming to an end.

Mauna Kea’s telescopes are at the forefront of discoveries about this dark energy thanks to their “exquisite image quality,” Simons said. IT’S A CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL STRUGGLE.

HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - State crews used heavy machinery Friday morning to dismantle an elaborate unpermitted structure that was erected at the base of Mauna Kea earlier this week to ...

The protests on Mauna Kea have been nonviolent ever since the Mauna Kea Access Road was closed on July 15. In a statement posted on the Facebook page Pu’uhonua o Pu’uhuluhulu Maunakea, ...

Snow caps on the peaks of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa in 2021. Lauren Dauphin/NASA Earth Observatory. The snowfall which hit Hawaii occurred during what known as a "Kona Low," a low-pressure system ...

A quick Google of Hawaii weather reveals that today's average temperature is a mild 75 degrees (24 degrees Celsius) but up on Mauna Kea, the highest peak on the Big Island of Hawaii, it's close to ...

The National Science Foundation’s decision not to fund the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on Mauna Kea has been a long time coming. The decision left me feeling saddened by the victory of the Protectors ...