Viewed from La Palma's highest point where enormous telescopes dot the rocky landscape, the Cumbre Vieja volcano looks like a distant puff of smoke breaking through a blanket of white cloud to ...

The world's largest telescope is almost as big as your house—and it’s unlocking the universe’s biggest mysteries.

Image 3 of 4 starmus la palma 2025 - a woman stands in the foreground holding her arm out to present a large telescope structure behind her with pristine mirrors reflecting the blue sky above.

Protest-hit Thirty Meter Telescope receives construction go-ahead in Hawaii The possibility of relocating the TMT away from Mauna Kea has concerned some astronomers who think that La Palma’s ...

The world's most powerful telescopes, including the James Webb Space Telescope and FAST, are revolutionizing our ...

Jane Goodall, Brian May, Nobel Laureates, astronauts, and many world-class eminences will gather on La Palma Island from April 25 to 29, 2025.

The experiment on La Palma: The laser beam (yellow) generates an artificial guide star in the mesosphere. This light is collected in the receiver telescope (front left). The laser source and the ...

These telescopes represent the cutting edge of astronomical discovery, probing the universe across the electromagnetic ...

Telescope officials had selected the alternate location near an existing scientific research facility on the highest mountain of La Palma, one of the Spanish islands off the western African coast ...

LA PALMA, Canary Islands (HawaiiNewsNow) - Thirty Meter Telescope protesters at the base of Mauna Kea have urged the telescope’s backers to move the project to a back-up site in the Canary ...

A 2014 artist’s rendering shows the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope against a backdrop of other Mauna Kea telescopes. “While we respect the court’s ruling in La Palma, we will pursue the ...

The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) could move to La Palma, in Spain’s Canary Islands, if opposition from some Native Hawaiians prevents the next-generation observatory from being built atop the ...