America's National Science Foundation has picked Maui’s Haleakala mountaintop in Hawaii as the site for the world’s largest solar optical telescope.

Ocean water, long believed to have come from icy comets beyond Neptune, may have originated in asteroids found in warmer regions much closer to Earth, according to astronomers in Hawaii.

Telescopes atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii have recorded the most distant cosmic explosion ever seen, probably caused by the collapse of a massive dying star, according to University of Hawaii astronomers.