The nova eruptions come about when a white dwarf steals too much matter from a close red giant companion.

The Akamai Internship Program — led by the Institute for Scientist & Engineer Educators at University of California ...

However, astronomers in Hawaii just spotted a pair of exciting discoveries — a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf — using Japan ...

Keck Observatory reports that spectroscopy from its Keck Cosmic Web Imager, combined with data from NASA’s James Webb and ...

CEO Stephen Ehikian — who took the reins from founder and chairman Thomas Siebel in September — speaks with Yahoo Finance ...

A long-delayed project to build the largest telescope in the Northern Hemisphere atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii has been given new ...

The students named it Ua ʻŌhiʻa Lani, which means Heavenly ʻŌhiʻa Rains, inspired by a traditional Hawaiian story.

The University of Hawaiʻi has kicked off initial science operations for Robo‑AO‑2, a fully robotic laser adaptive‑optics system now riding on the UH 2.2‑meter telescope atop Maunakea. Designed to ...

Despite some daunting setbacks, executives with the Thirty Meter Telescope aren’t giving up on their plans to build it on Mauna Kea, and are investigating the possibility the observatory could be ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." There’s nothing quite like looking up at a sky untouched by city lights, where galaxies spill across the ...