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

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

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

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

Sylvester Onaonanamaka “Onaona” Ah Yee, 76, of Hilo died May 14 at Hilo Benioff Medical Center. He was a 1967 graduate of Ka‘u High School. Online condolences: homelanimemorialpark.com. Survived by ...

A giant exoplanet is surprisingly chill given how close it is to its red dwarf star — perhaps because the star is so little.

A potential new dwarf planet has been discovered in the outer reaches of the solar system, and its existence poses the ...

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

There has been a major development in the long-running battle over the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea. A federal funding ...

The foundation’s budget proposal to Congress said, “NSF will advance the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) into the Major ...

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