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

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

On January 9, 1643, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Riccioli saw a weird glowing light on the night side of Venus. He named ...

The Hubble Space Telescope's newest images of 3I/ATLAS confirm the presence of its sunward anti-tail, contrary to the usual ...

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

For large Main Belt asteroids, that break-apart point was set at a spin period of about 2.2 hours – a hard limit suggested by ...

Instead of just pointing in one direction, like most black hole jets, this one is sweeping in a curvy S-shaped pathway.

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

This artist’s rendering illustrates a precessing jet erupting from the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy VV ...

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

The king of the solar system, the giant planet Jupiter, will reach opposition. Because Earth will be almost directly between ...