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

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, ...

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

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

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

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

NASA’s Hubble has examined Cloud-9, a strange object with no stars that offers clues about early galaxy formation and dark ...

After clearing its last hurdle on its way to space, the Pandora satellite mission is awaiting to be launched into orbit, ...

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 ...

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

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a new type of cosmic object nicknamed Cloud 9, located about 14 ...