On Wednesday (July 23), Diana Morant, the Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities in Spain, announced the Spanish ...

After Trump’s budget cuts gutted funding for one of the world’s largest astronomy projects, Spain offers $470 million and a ...

Is China quietly building the world’s biggest telescope? He would like to know, because he leads a rival telescope project in the U.

The panel recommended that the telescope projects share $1.6 billion. Since then, the foundation said it is considering buying into the TMT but, in doing so, launched a new environmental review ...

Astronomy is, for all intents and purposes, observation in search of truth. When I set out to make a video about the Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii, that was my goal: To observe in search of ...

CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / 2019 The National Science Founda- tion’s proposed funding of the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea is on hold pending further environmental review. Above, police officers ...

Protesters opposed to the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope gather outside the Hawaii Legislature in Honolulu, on Tue., April 21, 2015. AP ...

Hawaii's Attempt To Control Telescope Protesters Is Invalid: Court Construction of the $1.4 billion Thirty Meter Telescope has been on hold since April as a result of the protests.

An artist's interpretation of the Thirty Meter Telescope's mirrors. The TMT is a telescope designed for optical and infrared observing, to see first light on Hawaii's Mauna Kea in 2018.

The Thirty Meter Telescope will be the world's second-largest telescope, and allow astronomers to peer into the early years of the universe — some 13 billion light years away.

The Thirty Meter Telescope, which has been planned for construction atop of Hawaii's Mauna Kea, has hit a number of snags, but it got a major approval this week.

The enormous Thirty Meter Telescope, with a primary mirror the size of a blue whale, is part of a new generation of super powerful ground-based telescopes. Scheduled for completion in 2018, it ...