The National Science Foundation will no longer fund the controversial Thirty Meter Telescope planned for construction atop Mauna Kea, instead choosing to back its international competitor, the Giant ...

Hawaii's Supreme Court makes a controversial decision to approve a telescope. Hawaii’s Supreme Court made a controversial decision on a long-debated issue by voting in favor of continuing the ...

Many were deeply disheartened to learn that the National Science Foundation has defunded Hawaii’s Thirty Meter Telescope project. Still, they also should feel hopeful that, despite this tragic setback ...

TMT will consist of a primary mirror with 492 individual 1.45-meter segments that together measure 30 meters in diameter, providing more than eight times the collecting area of the current largest ...

The announcement was widely expected after a series of court rulings in recent years had gone the embattled telescope’s way. “We have followed a 10-year process to get to this point,” Ige said. He was ...

Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. Would it be fiscally responsible for NSF to grant $1.6 ...

As the U.S. backs away from key climate, aid, and scientific investments, Europe is stepping in to pick up the slack. Europe’s latest intervention? Saving a plan to build one of the world’s largest, ...

The Indian Astronomical Society has released the "2035 Giant Science Vision - Astronomy and Astrophysics Report," focusing on India's development plans in this field from 2020 to 2035. The report ...

A new generation of extremely large telescopes requires fresh approaches to correct for the blurring effects caused by the Earth’s atmosphere, as Richard de Grijs, one of an international team of ...

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation awarded $17.5 million to the University of California for collaboration with the California Institute of Technology on a project intended to build the world’s ...

Aiming at the issues of heavy weight and insufficient structural performance of optical instrument supporting structures in extremely large telescopes, the Wide-Field Optical Spectrograph (WFOS) of ...