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 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 ...

Indian researchers have developed a new online tool that promises to significantly improve the performance of the upcoming Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), one of the largest ground-based telescopes ...

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 ...

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 ...