Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The National Science Foundation will no longer fund the controversial Thirty Meter Telescope planned for construction atop Mauna ...

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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 ...

The University of California and the California Institute of Technology have each received $7.5 million in additional funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for the development of the ...

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 ...

The conversation about the Thirty Meter Telescope had gone silent for a time, since the developers of the controversial project pegged for Mauna Kea turned their attention to competing sites elsewhere ...

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 ...