On July 14, 2021, the Subaru-Asahi Sky Camera on the 8.2-m Subaru Telescope at the summit of Maunakea, Hawai’i, captured a rare meteor outburst associated...
In a new study, a team of geophysicists from the University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins University and Tel Aviv University has analyzed echoes of seismic...
The 2018 eruption of Kīlauea volcano in Hawaii was likely initiated by prolonged, and at times extreme, rainfall in the months leading up to the event,...
New research has solved a long-standing mystery of how the world’s biggest and most active volcanoes formed in Hawaii.
Bathymetric map of recent Hawaiian...
A large deep-water fish that was previously identified in the Southeastern Pacific has recently been found around the Hawaiian Islands and off the coast...
A team of scientists led by Dr. Christian Rutz, a researcher at the Centre for Biological Diversity at the University of St Andrews, UK, has discovered...
A new species of the butterflyfish genus Prognathodes has been described from several specimens collected at depths of 180-200 feet (55-61 m) off Pearl...
Two lucky tourists from Texas made an incredible archaeological discovery during a July visit to Hawaii. They found a rare series of petroglyphs on Hawaii’s...
A team of marine scientists working off the northeast coast of Necker Island, the Hawaiian Archipelago, has encountered a new-to-science species of deep-sea...
A newly-discovered species of leucothoid amphipod has been named after British singer and composer Sir Elton John.
Leucothoe eltoni, male. Image credit:...
Six astronaut-like members of NASA’s Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) team have embarked on the longest dedicated space travel...
Geologists from France and the United States have discovered that the island of O’ahu consists of three major volcanoes, not two, as previously thought.
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New research, reported in the Geophysical Research Letters, changes our understanding of how the Hawaiian Islands formed.
Haleakala Crater in East Maui...