The Thirty Meter Telescope: How a volcano in Hawaii became a battleground for astronomy : Read more As a Native Hawaiian pursuing a PhD in physics and astronomy instrumentation, ...

The Thirty Meter Telescope does not have to be located on a sacred mountain. There is an alternate location under consideration in the Canary Islands, on the peak of La Palma that, ...

The Thirty Meter Telescope will be the world's second-largest telescope, and allow astronomers to peer into the early years of the universe — some 13 billion light years away.

The Thirty Meter Telescope, backed by an international consortium of institutes and agencies, would be larger than any telescope now in existence — in an entirely different size class from the ...

The construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea has produced a lot of controversy on the island and elsewhere. Here's why.

An artist's rendering of the Thirty Meter Telescope at sunset. The TMT is a telescope designed for optical and infrared observing, to see first light on Hawaii's Mauna Kea in 2022. Image undated.

The Thirty Meter Telescope will stand atop the Mauna Kea volcano on the island of Hawaii, near the W.M. Keck Observatory that UC has operated with Caltech since 1993. Groundbreaking on the eight-year ...

CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / 2019 . The National Science Founda- tion’s proposed funding of the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea is on hold pending further environmental review.

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Protesters opposed to the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope gather outside the Hawaii Legislature in Honolulu, on Tue., April 21, 2015. AP ...

For Native Hawaiians, opposition to the $1.4 billion Thirty Meter Telescope isn’t universal — some support the educational opportunities from the project and are facing backlash from those ...

The Thirty Meter Telescope won approval to join other telescopes atop Mauna Kea, but protesters vowed to continue fighting for land sacred to Native Hawaiians. IE 11 is not supported.