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

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife Wendy are spearheading one of the most ambitious private astronomy initiatives in ...

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

As reported by Science, the telescope was announced at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society this week and could be ...

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

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

"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 ...

The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), a joint mission between the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope found a barred spiral galaxy that formed when the universe was only two billion years old ...

Scientists are using powerful telescopes to study exoplanet atmospheres for signs of life. New missions could soon reveal ...

A new study shows the European Extremely Large Telescope will be able to directly image and study the atmospheres of some potentially habitable exoplanets. When you purchase through links on our site, ...