Mahalo to To Travis for this gorgeous Aloha Friday Photo. To’s photo was taken from the east side of Oahu, probably from the Waimanalo Beach area. The island in view… [...]

Mahalo to Elizabeth and Dan Van Os for these Aloha Friday Photos. They took these photos from their front yard from Waikoloa Village on Hawaii’s Big Island This aspect is… [...]

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… [...]

California Association for Research in Astronomy Board Chair George R. Blumenthal, ChairChancellor Emeritus, University of California at Santa Cruz, Director of UC Berkeley’s Center for Studies in Higher Education Read [...]

The Most Complete Portrait of a Supernova Ever Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – Accounts of supernovae – exploding stars – go back thousands of years, and while we know today these events [...]

Written by Michelle Franklin, APRDirector of Communications, Physical Sciences at University of California, San Diego  Maunakea, Hawai‘i– It’s not every day astronomers say, “What is that?” After all, most observed [...]

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, [...]

Heavy rain and isolated thunderstorms are possible over all islands again today. The threat will diminish by tonight and a land and sea breeze pattern favoring [...]

The Kalo Challenge is the finale of a yearlong project where at-promise students from across the state learned about planting and cultivating kalo (taro) and then turning their harvest into [...]

The University of Hawai'i at Hilo on the Big Island conferred degrees, certificates and post-graduate credentials to 500 students during its spring 2024 commencement ceremony. [...]

 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 [...]