The federal government's decision not to fund the Thirty Meter Telescope played a role. But questions remain about where the ...

The announcement came after the National Science Foundation withdrew financial support for the Thirty Meter Telescope project ...

The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and ...

The Thirty-Meter Telescope has actually been planned to be built on Mauna Kea in Hawaii since 2014. It was actually intended to be the largest optical telescope in the Northern Hemisphere.

Hawaii’s significant contribution to science, particularly those discoveries made through telescope installations on two ...

That’s a problem, since the GMT is expected to cost about $2.54 billion and the Thirty Meter Telescope is expected to cost about $2.7 billion — with as much as half of that funding expected ...

Hawaii risks losing its global astronomy edge and hundreds of employees if the Trump administration’s funding cuts are approved, said John O’Meara, deputy director and chief scientist of the W. M.

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 ...

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs said it has pulled two longstanding lawsuits surrounding the management of Mauna Kea.

Collectively, things are heading for damage to US science that will take decades to recover from. It's a radical break from ...

The Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT), a 4.3-meter optical telescope operated by Lowell Observatory, is pictured on a clear winter day near Happy Jack, Arizona.