Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gov. Josh Green is pledging to help “promptly ” establish a procedure to permit construction of a controversial telescope atop ...

Despite some daunting setbacks, executives with the Thirty Meter Telescope aren’t giving up on their plans to build it on Mauna Kea, and are investigating the possibility the observatory could be ...

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish judge in a decision cheered by environmentalists has put a halt to backup plans for the construction of a giant telescope in the Canary Islands — eliminating at least for now ...

The University of California and the California Institute of Technology have each received $7.5 million in additional funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for the development of the ...

A last-ditch effort by Native Hawaiians to stop construction at a culturally significant site on Hawaii’s Big Island has begun to attract national attention — echoing in some ways the protests by ...

HONOLULU A consortium of U.S. and Canadian universities announced Tuesday it has decided to build the world's largest telescope in Hawaii. Mauna Kea volcano was picked by Thirty Meter Telescope ...

HONOLULU — Astronomers have indefinitely stopped looking through 13 existing telescopes at the summit of Mauna Kea on Hawaii island while protesters block the road downslope in an attempt to prevent ...

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To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. During the oral arguments on Thursday, Hawaii Supreme Court ...