Mahalo to Kinga Fekete from Manchester, England for this lovely Aloha Friday Photo. Kinga tells us that this photo was taken from the grounds of the Mauna Lani Resort on… [...]

Mahalo to Margaret Whip from Scotland for sharing this lovely Aloha Friday Photo with us. She took this photo in September of 2019. This was her second visit to Maui… [...]

Mahalo to JW Green for this gorgeous Aloha Friday photo. He took this photo from Kailua on Oahu’s east side. I believe the Pali (cliffs) in the background are part… [...]

Guest Speaker Dr. Antonin Bouchez  Head of Adaptive Optics Development at Keck Observatory Temperature and pressure variations in the Earth’s atmosphere cause stars to appear to twinkle, and the images [...]

Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – A team of astronomers led by the University of Victoria and Yale University has detected an ancient star system traveling around our galaxy named Ursa Major III [...]

Guest Speaker Dr. Devin Chu UCLA Postdoctoral Scholar Devin Chu is a postdoctoral researcher with the University of California at Los Angeles Galactic Center Group, working under the supervision of [...]

As of Saturday morning, December 10, 2022, lava output from the Mauna Loa eruption continues to slow. Despite spectacular fountains of lava spewing at the main fissure, the flow has [...]

UPDATE: Thurston (Nāhuku) lava tube reopened August 18, 2022 after the Park Service deemed it safe for visitors. It had been closed for 18 days for structural monitoring and safety. [...]

Hundreds of thousands of years of nearly continuous volcanic activity created long subterranean tunnels, or lava tubes, primarily on the southeast side of the Big Island. Inside many lava tubes, [...]

Strong trade winds will gradually ease and veer toward the east- southeast through early next week. Plumes of moisture will produce passing showers across [...]

The web map went online back in March to be ready for the next eruption, but most of the sub-layers are currently empty, with the intention that map features will [...]

The driver of a dump truck lost control of his vehicle Wednesday, veering off of Akoni Pule Highway and striking a guardrail before overturning. [...]

 When water flows down a gradual stream over a generally flat bottom, it’s clear and transparent, but when it hits a steep slope like rapids and waterfalls, it turns white [...]

 The Nature Conservancy has attracted gray-backed terns back to Palmyra Atoll after they were lost to the island, likely due to rat predation.(Image: Gray-backed tern chick. Credit: The Nature Conservancy.)Researchers [...]

The La Nina oceanic condition, which we’ve been in for many months, has ended, and an El Nino appears likely to form in the summer or fall. That’s the latest [...]