Another telescope on Mauna Kea is set to be decommissioned. With Fourth of July past, attention focuses on the Koloa ...

Caltech has retired a telescope atop the summit of Hawaii's Mauna Kea following a cultural sea change in how people view land development on revered landmarks.

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

Scientists are reflecting on lessons learned with the completion of removal this summer of the Caltech telescope from the summit of Mauna Kea after dec­ades of mounting tension with Native Hawaiians.

Dec. 23—The Caltech Submillimeter Observatory telescope on Mauna Kea has been removed and packed for shipment to Chile.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Decommissioning of one of the observatories on Mauna Kea is set to resume. Crews will once again begin the process of removing the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory in ...

A historic milestone was reached on Mauna Kea as the University of Hawaii at Hilo fully removed and decommissioned its Hoku Kea Observatory in May.

Mauna Kea is 13,804 feet above sea level as measured by LiDar, the most accurate means of surveying height. Some maps have it at 13,796 or 13,803 feet, slightly off the LiDar measurement.

Hoku Kea was built in 1968 by the U.S. Air Force and was transferred to UH in 1970 and to UH-Hilo in 2003. But it has not actually functioned as an observatory for more than a decade.

As Native Hawaiians' fight to regain stewardship of Mauna Kea, the planned site for the Thirty Meter Telescope, a new law puts astronomy decision making back in their hands.

HONOLULU (KITV4) -- Three Hawaii observatories play a critical role in the Euclid space telescope mission by adding color to images from space. Mauna Kea and Haleakala telescopes turn black and ...