New Delhi: A five-nation consortium including India is expected to start the construction of the world's largest telescope next year with Indian scientists making significant contribution in developing its key components.

India is likely to make key parts, develop software and partly fund the development of the so-called Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), the largest of its kind that is being planned atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii, one of the tallest ...

Several Indian companies are gearing up to play a major role in the construction of the $ 1.2 billion Thirty Metre Telescope, which will be the world’s most advanced ground-based observatory that will be operating in optical ...