Despite some daunting setbacks, executives with the Thirty Meter Telescope aren’t giving up on their plans to build it on Mauna Kea, and are investigating the possibility the observatory could be ...

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 ...

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 ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Hundreds of protesters on a Hawaii mountain road erupted in cheers Wednesday after construction crews turned around and retreated from the site for what would be one of the world’s ...

HONOLULU (AP) — For months, protesters have held up construction of a $1.4 billion telescope atop a mountain on the Big Island of Hawaii. The state imposed emergency rules making it challenging for ...

A leading astronomer at UC Santa Cruz hailed the selection of Mauna Kea in Hawaii as the site for construction of the Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT), which will be the largest and most advanced ...

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 ...

After completing a worldwide survey unprecedented in rigor and detail of astronomical sites for the Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT), the TMT Observatory Corporation board of directors has selected two ...

A feckless Hawaii government and so-called “astronomy community”have been poor partners with TMT. When protesters lawlessly blockaded the road to Maunakea with old people in lawn chairs, the ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. During the oral arguments on Thursday, Hawaii Supreme Court ...