The success of the Keck II telescope AO upgrade was most recently proven in May by Jason Wang, a Heising-Simons Foundation 51 Pegasi b Fellow at Caltech, when he and his team tested the new ...

The twin telescopes at the W.M. Keck Observatory are the largest optical and infrared telescopes in the world. The telescopes are located atop Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano in Hawaii.

Scientists using the Keck II telescope in Hawaii say the surface of Saturn's moon Titan appears dry and not awash in oceans of liquid hydrocarbons as is commonly believed.

A celebration of the W.M. Keck Observatory's 20th anniversary this week will also include a plea for more money to keep the telescopes running in the next year.

Dust swirls into black hole in Milky Way Using the Keck II telescope's infrared adaptive optics, astronomers looked through the dust and gas that block our visible light view into the center of our ...

After years of searching, Yale University astronomers have discovered a window into the early, violent formation of the nuclei of the Universe's monster galaxies. After spotting a potential candidate ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope and the Keck II telescope in Hawaii have observed something remarkable on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. For the first time, researchers witnessed ...

When the Keck team was first informed of the discovery a few months ago, de Pater carefully processed data they had obtained in August with the infrared camera on the 10-meter Keck II telescope.

The astronomy team from the California Institute of Technology, which was to present its findings in London on Wednesday, said they used the Keck II telescope atop Mauna Kea volcano to see farther ...

His career at Keck Observatory began 30 years ago with the construction of the Keck II telescope. He is kamaʻāina to Hawaiʻi, locally born and raised, and has served in an executive leadership role at ...