NASA has selected two Colorado companies to help develop a future NASA space telescope that will look for signs of life on other planets. The flagship project, called the Habitable Worlds Observatory, ...

The Square Kilomere Array (SKA) Observatory’s growing telescope array in South Africa, SKA-Mid, has achieved its “first fringes” using two of its dishes, a milestone demonstrating its maiden operation ...

China has achieved a significant milestone in the development of its Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST), also known as ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...

But first, a bit of space telescope history. One of the most powerful space-based telescopes to be launched into the Earth’s ...

KEY OBSERVATIONS A comet’s tail is supposed to flee the Sun, driven outward by radiation and solar wind. That rule has held ...

The Schmidts' philanthropic research organization will build a 3-meter space telescope and fund three ground-based facilities.

Former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy Schmidt, have committed private funding to four ambitious ...

A billionaire-backed philanthropic organization is funding the development of a series of new observatories, including a ...

"We're going to do it in three years, and we're going to do it for a ridiculously low price," Pete Klupar, executive director ...

A first look at Canon-powered Vaonis Hyperia – a smart telescope that brings professional observatory-level astrophotography ...

On Wednesday evening, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, announced a major investment in not just one ...