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.

The University of Hawaii-owned UKIRT telescope will be decommissioned once all the necessary paperwork is completed.

HILO (HawaiiNewsNow) - The telescope that has been on top of Mauna Kea for nearly 50 years will be removed. On Friday, ...

The federal government's decision not to fund the Thirty Meter Telescope played a role. But questions remain about where the Office of Hawaiian Affairs will redirect its resources.

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A new oversight board with a state mandate to manage the sacred mountaintop includes representatives from astronomical observatories and Native Hawaiian communities.

University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy last week officially began the decommissioning process for the UH-owned UKIRT ...

Palacat-Nelsen said such efforts by observatories give him hope that people will become more mindful of their footprints on Mauna Kea, like the legendary chief who visited the snow goddess.

Caltech observatory atop Hawaii’s Mauna Kea, a source of cultural tension, is dismantled Caltech and its contractors completed the decommissioning of the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory in July.

Visitors take photos near an observatory on the summit of Mauna Kea on July 15. Over the last 50 years, astronomers have mounted 13 giant telescopes on Mauna Kea’s summit. In 2009, they proposed ...

After Mauna Loa started belching lava, technicians with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which runs the observatory, flew in and installed instruments on Mauna Kea shortly ...