Work on a $2.4bn telescope sited on top of a volcano in Hawaii is set to be abandoned after the body funding decided to prioritise other schemes and areas of…

The US National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and the state of Bavaria will build a radio telescope on top of Germany’s highest mountain. Their Wetterstein Millimetre Telescope will go up…

The Flemish government will contribute €200m to the more than €1bn cost of building the Einstein Telescope – a massive device about 300m underground that will record the passing of…

China began work this week on the second phase of FAST, the world’s largest and most powerful single-dish radio telescope, Xinhua reports. 

The governing board of America’s National Science Foundation (NSF) has set a $1.6bn ceiling on its contribution to the cost of building giant telescopes. The decision means that one of…

Work is getting underway today on a giant radio telescope billed as one of the 21st century’s most important science projects. The first phases of the Single Kilometre Array, or…