Astronomers on Mauna Kea found the first space object on which NASA’s Roman Space Telescope can test its imaging technology. A new “massive planet ” also was found, the W.M. Keck Observatory said in a ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory turns x-rays and data into sounds of planets around our solar system. These sonifications ...

HONOLULUJ (KHON2) — Astronomers at W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea have uncovered new insights about 2024 YR4. This is an Earth-crossing asteroid first spotted in December 2024. Their findings ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

12 years of W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of star system HR 8799 have been time-lapsed. The system hosts four planets that ...

Rich Matsuda is the first Hawai‘i-born director of the W. M. Keck Observatory. For him, the title carries both responsibility and opportunity.“In one sense it doesn’t matter, shouldn’t matter, there’s ...

Astronomers at W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea discovered “the clearest evidence yet that a supermassive black hole can dramatically reshape its host galaxy far beyond its core,” the observatory ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Astronomers at the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea discovered clear evidence that a supermassive black hole can reshape a galaxy, the observatory announced on Jan. 8. The ...

An infrared image shows a brown dwarf discovered by astronomers using the W.M. Keck Observatory and Subaru Telescope on Maunakea on Feb. 23, 2024. Data from both the observatory and telescope ...