The TMT project is back under consideration for federal support, but it must complete a final design phase without taxpayer assistance.

PASADENA, Calif. — After careful evaluation and comparison between two outstanding candidate sites–Mauna Kea in Hawai’i and Cerro Armazones in Chile–the board of directors of the TMT Observatory ...

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

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 ...

The National Optical Astronomy Observatory is working on the development of the proposed 30-meter telescope, or TMT, a giant telescope that is to be the next generation in ground-based astronomy.

The Thirty Meter Telescope International Observatory (TMT) has awarded a contract to Belgium-based telescope and space equipment developer AMOS for designing and manufacturing the tertiary mirror ...

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 ...