Many of the same folks who blocked construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope atop Mauna Kea in 2015 and 2019 dominated the four meetings about the cutting- edge proposal held this week on Hawaii ...

The state announced a “notice to proceed” for the Thirty Meter Telescope project at a news conference Thursday. Gov. David Ige said it was the final legal step in a long, often contentious ...

Astronomy leaders in the United States want to build two huge telescopes, the Giant Magellan Telescope and the Thirty Meter Telescope, the first covering the southern sky from Chile and the second ...

The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) would be among the largest in the world. The $1.4bn (£1.1bn) project has long been a source of controversy in Hawaii, where protesters say it will disturb sacred ...

This report, a road map of national priorities, recommended funding the $2.5-billion Giant Magellan Telescope at the peak of Cerro Las Campanas in Chile and the $3.9-billion Thirty Meter Telescope ...

“There are three instances (all realizations about the sky before I was 12): First was when as a child, enthralled with the rockets of the space program, I realized that Mercury astronauts Shepard, ...

Protesters peacefully demonstrate on a walkway at Kahului Airport on Thursday morning against the Thirty Meter Telescope being built atop Mauna Kea on Hawaii island. The Maui News / LILA FUJIMOTO ...

The effort is aimed at helping the nation’s top funder of basic scientific research decide whether to consider awarding as much as $850 million to the next- generation TMT, which is now ...