Project News

Discovery Alert: 172 Possible Planets? A New Roadmap to Distant Worlds

NASA Exoplanet Archive • November 30th, 2021

A new catalog of planets around other stars includes hundreds of new discoveries, and could offer insight into planet formation and variety.

TMT Appoints Dr. Fengchuan Liu as Project Manager

TMT • November 22nd, 2021

Dr. Fengchuan Liu has been named project manager of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), where he will lead the observatory design and development. He most recently served as...

TMT was at AstroDay in Kona

TMT • November 18th, 2021

TMT was pleased to join the Maunakea Observatories in celebrating AstroDay on November 14, 2021 at Kona Commons Shopping Center in Kona. AstroDay continues to be a leading...

NASA’s Roman Mission Will Help Empower a New Era of Cosmological Discovery

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • November 9th, 2021

A team of scientists has forecast the scientific impact of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s High Latitude Wide Area Survey on critical questions in cosmology.

US Extremely Large Telescope Program Supports Vision of Decadal Survey

TMT • November 5th, 2021

The decadal survey for astronomy and astrophysics is a powerful study that our community uses to drive strategy and vision for the next decade of federally funded transformative...

Astro2020 Decadal Survey Released

TMT • November 4th, 2021

Today, the National Academies released the Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey (Astro2020) with its recommendations for implementing a strategy and vision for the coming...

TMT’s Statement on Astro2020 Decadal Survey

TMT • November 4th, 2021

Henry Yang, Board Chair, Thirty Meter Telescope International Observatory, issued the following statement in response to today’s release of the Pathways to Discovery in...

Public Data Release 8

ZTF • November 3rd, 2021

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and IPAC at the California Institute of Technology announce the 8th ZTF Public Data Release. ZTF is an optical time-domain survey covering...

A ‘Monster’ Star-Forming Region Spied by NASA’s Spitzer

Spitzer • October 25th, 2021

Just like clouds on Earth, clouds of gas and dust in space can sometimes resemble familiar objects, or even popular movie creatures.

TMT’s Secondary and Tertiary Mirrors Coating Facility Passes Conceptual Design Review

TMT • October 21st, 2021

The coating chamber that will provide the required highly reflective thin and uniform coating to both TMT’s Secondary and Tertiary Mirrors (M2 and M3, respectively) recently...