We are pleased to share NOIRLab announcement, and welcome Lucas Macri as the new Project Director of the US Extremely Large Telescope Program, a joint initiative of NOIRLab, TIO and GMTO.
Astronomy town hall mulls future of project on Mauna Kea that has been stalled by protests. Article by Daniel Clery, Science’s senior correspondent in the United Kingdom, covering astronomy,...
A planet-and-star pair located more than 400 light years away could become the next celestial objects bearing inoa (names) in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi or the Hawaiian language. Our colleague Leinani Lozi,...
"The TMT will enable us to peek from one light year (in our solar system) to the early Universe, or around 13.7 billion light years away. Consider: the nearest neighbour of our Milky Way Galaxy,...
Robert Kirshner, who in May took the job of TMT executive director, says the TMT’s “new community-based model” gives him hope that the TMT can be built “through mutual stewardship of Mauna Kea.”
Coherent supplies optics and optical fabrication technology for one of the most ambitious astronomy projects ever conceived – the Thirty Meter Telescope. There are only a handful of organizations...
Congratulations to former TMT Executive Director Edward Stone, who recently retired after 50 Years as NASA Voyager’s Project Scientist.
The best chances for finding signs of life in exoplanet atmospheres will come with the next generation of giant, ground-based telescopes: the 39-meter Extremely Large Telescope, the Thirty Meter...
In this guest blog post, John O'Meara, Chief Scientist of W.M. Keck Observatory and member of the AAS Committee on Astronomy and Public Policy, explains recently passed legislation in Hawaiʻi...
TMT congratulates Professor Bruce Macintosh on his new appointment as Director of UC Observatories and welcomes him as new TMT Science Advisory Committee member. Macintosh's scientific...
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