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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 National Science Foundation will no longer fund the controversial Thirty Meter Telescope planned for construction atop ...

For astronomers, Mauna Kea has always been attractive for its ideal observing conditions. At 13,800 feet (4,200 meters) high, the peak lies above much of the distorting effects of the atmosphere ...

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.

Mauna Kea Beach Hotel. Brett O'Brien. Multi-generational travel has seen a 40% year over year rise with more and more families experiencing new destinations together. This trend takes family ...

An observatory high on Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano that measures carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reported its highest ever seasonal peak concentration of the greenhouse gas. For the first time, ...

The Mauna Kea site is at the mountain’s peak, where there isn’t this effect. To see how much these differences might affect NOAA’s readings, Mr. Colton, ...

Mauna Kea’s summit soars 13,796 feet above sea level, evoking an ethereal feeling as fluffy clouds swaddle its cinder cones and blanket its reddish, almost Mars-like soil.

But Mauna Kea is the preferred site, and Squires said TMT recognizes the telescope has prompted conversations about sovereignty and historical injustices against Native Hawaiians, ...

The University of Hawaii is considering possible new management structures for governing land on Mauna Kea in an effort to improve its stewardship of the state’s highest mountain. Demonstrators ...