The National Science Foundation said Tuesday that it is launching a full environmental review of the stalled Thirty Meter Telescope project, a two-year process that could land hundreds of millions ...

That could soon change, thanks to a new NASA flagship telescope being designed to seek out strange new worlds that could ...

The telescope is being built in areas already used for radio astronomy on a smaller scale. To expand these sites, however, has required various land agreements, with farmers in the Karoo ...

We are part of the land and the land is part of us ... Native Hawaiians are combatting a telescope to be built upon a sacred summit In Hawaii, indigenous groups there have protested for years ...

Work on the $1.4bn (£1bn) Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) had paused in 2015 after protests from some native Hawaiians, to whom the land is sacred. The state's top court ruled 4-1 in favour of the ...