In the next few years, we will see some incredible observatories comie online. The Vera Rubin Observatory's science campaign ...

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

New Mexico’s Plains of San Agustin are otherworldly: Silence, sand and sharp plants reign on the valley floor. Knobbly volcanic rock rises above. Pronghorns’ legs and jackrabbits’ ears break up the ...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is trying to do for astronomy what cheap cloud computing did for software, backing a space ...

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

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

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

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A composite image of the South African MeerKAT radio telescope array with vast, cosmic bubbles of ...

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

The Cherenkov Telescope Array just got a major boost for distributing its data, a development that will expedite scientific discovery using the observatory. Reading time 2 minutes The European ...

Targeting star systems identified by Kepler Space Telescope (especially those in habitable-zone candidate planets). Surveying a region near the Milky Way’s Galactic Center (where stellar density is ...

The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is located at the Hat Creek Observatory in the Cascade Mountains of California, approximately 300 miles to the north of San Francisco and two dozen miles north of ...