Seattle, WA – Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and University of …

Kamuela, HI – Astronomers have uncovered a burgeoning galactic metropolis, the most distant known in the early universe. This ancient …

Humans are not alone in their struggle against an increasing waistline. Astronomers believe that galaxies too put on weight throughout …

Kamuela, HI – Astronomers announced the discovery of a fourth giant planet joining three others orbiting a nearby star with …

Kamuela, HI, – One of Jupiter’s dark brown stripes that faded out last spring is regaining its color, providing an …

Kamuela, HI, – Nearly one in four stars like the Sun could have Earth-size planets, according to observations of nearby …

Kamuela, HI, – The European Space Agency (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft recently beamed back to Earth a dramatic set of close-up …

Kamuela, HI, – A team of planet-hunting astronomers, utilizing the HIRES spectrometer on the W.M. Keck Observatory’s Keck I Telescope, …

Kamuela, HI – Astronomers at the University of Hawaii have measured the temperature of a young gas-giant planet around another …

Kamuela, HI— The W. M. Keck Observatory has received a $1.72 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to …

This image shows the Keck I laser, which is part of the telescope’s Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics system. The …

This image of the first-ever foreground quasar (blue) lensing a background galaxy (red) was taken with the Keck II telescope …