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 ...

The US government isn't giving any money, so the Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii is about to shut down. Now Spain's offering ...

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

Now the Spanish government has pitched to bring the giant facility to La Palma, in Spain’s Canary Islands — and backed up the effort with a pledge to contribute €400 million (US$470 million).

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

The nonprofit group that’s building the Thirty Meter Telescope began scoping out other sites for the $1.4 billion telescope this fall—including mountains in Chile, India, China, and Mexico ...