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The summit continued long-term extension with short-term back-to-back deflation-inflation tilt events during which lava lake levels mimicked the tilt.

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A team of American, Canadian and Chilean astronomers have stumbled onto a remarkably faint cluster of stars orbiting the Milky Way that puts out as much light as only 120 modest Sun-like stars. The tiny cluster, called Muñoz 1, was discovered near a dwarf galaxy in a survey of satellites around the Milky Way using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) and confirmed using the Keck II telescope, both of which are on Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

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Adventurous tourists have an opportunity this summer for an experience reminiscent of the classic book and movie “Journey to the Center of the Earth”—the chance to explore the interior of a volcano in Iceland.

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On Kilauea`s east rift zone, surface lava flows were active on the pali and coastal plain over the past week.

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The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project has submitted a funding proposal on April 16, 2012 to the National Science Foundation (NSF) to plan a potential partnership between the organizations.

The proposal, if approved, will allow TMT to benefit from full engagement with the United States’ astronomical community in the years ahead. The community, in turn, stands to benefit from TMT becoming an integral asset to U.S. astronomy.

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A photograph at Halemaumau Crater by Alvis Upitis, a West Hawaii photographer who is judging with fellow professional photographer Richard Decker the “Images From the Edge” photo contest.

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Some people think history is dull. Well, brace yourself. The past 1,000 years at Kilauea have been anything but dull, providing an exciting, at times almost breathless, volcanic experience.

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As of Wednesday, April 18, the flows on the coastal plain were advancing towards the ocean but were still about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) from the water.

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To the southeast of Pu‘u ‘O‘o surface flows continued to spread on the coastal plain but there was no ocean entry yet.

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Later this spring, we expect to record one of Kilauea’s tantalizing behaviors —a slow slip event (SSE). SSEs are episodes of fault slip occurring over the course of 1-2 days beneath Kilauea’s south flank.

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On Kilauea’s east rift zone, surface lava flows were active on the pali and coastal plain, in Royal Gardens subdivision, over the past week.

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MEDIA RELEASE Engineers and astronomers are celebrating the much anticipated first light of the MOSFIRE instrument, now installed on the Keck I telescope at W. M. Keck Observatory. MOSFIRE (Multi-Object Spectrometer For Infra-Red Exploration) will vastly increase the data gathering power of what is already the world’s most productive ground-based observatory. “This is a near-infrared [...]

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