The night sky has long sparked wonder and curiosity. Early civilizations studied the stars and tracked celestial events, ...
Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...
After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A ...
Go outside right now. What’s the farthest thing you can see? A tree? A bird? What about the Moon? It’s 250,000 miles away. The Sun is 400 times farther than that, at nearly 100 million miles (but ...
Scientists are using powerful telescopes to study exoplanet atmospheres for signs of life. New missions could soon reveal ...
On Wednesday evening, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, announced a major investment in not just one ...
Space telescopes have always been defined as much by their rockets as by their mirrors. When every kilogram to orbit costs 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 billionaire-backed philanthropic organization is funding the development of a series of new observatories, including a ...
Rochester Institute of Technology astrophysicist Jeyhan Kartaltepe will be one of the first scientists to use NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope soon after it launches in spring 2019. The Webb ...