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

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

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

NASA, SpaceX and Blue Origin have all successfully launched superheavy-lift rockets. These massive vehicles are designed to ...

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

"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 ...

Size matters when it comes to telescopes. The bigger they are, the farther they can see. Prioritizing constructing large ones ...

Webb observations of the Sextans A galaxy reveal how stars in a metal-poor areas create cosmic dust, offering clues about the ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have made a groundbreaking discovery about how dust forms in some of the ...

D printing your own telescope is rewarding and customizable, but it rarely saves money once optics, materials, and time are ...

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, ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...