Hawaii lawmakers will battle it out this session with competing bills dictating the powers of the Mauna Kea Stewardship and ...

Experience the magic of the night sky in stunning deserts and high-altitude observatories. Mauna Kea, at 13,796 feet, hosts ...

The so-called 'planetesimal belts' are filled with tiny millimeter-sized particles created by collisions between comets.

North Liberty’s best kept secret looks like a giant satellite dish nestled in a wooded area between North Liberty and Coralville Lake. But it’s not a satellite. It’s a radio telescope that makes up ...

Embark on an unusual Hawaiian adventure by skiing at the top of a dormant volcano. After hitting the slopes, you can end your ...

Just a couple of days after a major winter storm coated the summits of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa with several inches of snow, with strong winds whipping the white stuff up to blizzard conditions at ...

Mount Everest is indeed the world's highest mountain, with its peak standing at 8,849m (that's 8.8km) above the ocean.

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an ...

Astronomers have detected fast-repeating radio bursts from a distant "dead" galaxy that should not contain the energy to ...