Many were deeply disheartened to learn that the National Science Foundation has defunded Hawaii’s Thirty Meter Telescope ...

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The Conversation spoke to John De Fries, executive director of the Maunakea Stewardship and Oversight Authority, about the ...

NSF budget proposal cuts funding for the contested Thirty Meter Telescope; focus shifts to Giant Magellan Telescope.

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In addition to the TMT, proposed federal funding cuts threaten the world-class Keck and Gemini observatories, the solar ...

In 2024, the National Science Foundation stated there was only enough money for one giant US telescope. Now the thirty-meter ...

The National Science Foundation's decision to cut funds for the Thirty Meter Telescope planned for Maunakea on Hawaiʻi Island ...

Work on a $2.4bn telescope sited on top of a volcano in Hawaii is set to be abandoned after the body funding decided to ...

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The National Science Foundation will no longer fund the controversial Thirty Meter Telescope planned for construction atop ...

The National Science Foundation, which was supposed to provide much of the funding for TMT, opts to fund the Giant Magellan ...