Astronomers on Mauna Kea found the first space object on which NASA’s Roman Space Telescope can test its imaging technology. A new “massive planet ” also was found, the W.M. Keck Observatory said in a ...

Beginnings: Derek Petrowski sets a goal every New Year’s Eve and did so again on Dec. 31, 2021. “I try to make it a realistic goal,” Petrowski says, “but this time I was feeling a little wild. So I ...

Nelson also will deliver the 1995 Heineman Prize Lecture, "The Keck Observatory: Challenges and Promise," at 11:40 a.m. EDT Thursday, June 15, in the Allegheny I and II rooms, Pittsburgh Vista Hotel.

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have uncovered the largest and most extended stream of super-heated gas ever observed flowing from a nearby galaxy, providing the ...

The Keck Telescope at Westmont's observatory will allow for the public to view the stars Mizar and Alcor. (Courtesy photo) Westmont will open its observatory and powerful Keck Telescope for this month ...

TNO, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, has signed its first contract with the W. M. Keck Observatory to initiate the design of Keck’s Adaptive Secondary Mirror (ASM). The ...

James Webb Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory captured new images of Saturn's moon Titan. Credit: NASA/STScI/W. M.

A leading astronomer at UC Santa Cruz hailed the selection of Mauna Kea in Hawaii as the site for construction of the Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT), which will be the largest and most advanced ...

This artist’s rendering illustrates a plasma jet erupting from the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy VV 340a. Optical observations from the W.M. Keck Observatory revealed extended, ...

An infrared image shows a brown dwarf discovered by astronomers using the W.M. Keck Observatory and Subaru Telescope on Maunakea on Feb. 23, 2024. Data from both the observatory and telescope ...