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

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

"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 ...

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.

A distant pulsar’s radio signal flickers as it passes through space, much like stars twinkle in Earth’s atmosphere. By ...

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

Scientists from the Telescope Array Collaboration have detected an ultrahigh-energy cosmic ray, a discovery that’s challenging our current understanding of exotic cosmic phenomena and their origins.

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 ...

The Very Large Array will look for artificially produced radio signals. Image: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF; Hubble Legacy Archive, ESA, NASA The SETI Institute said this week that the Very Large Array, ...

On 15 December, the Large-Sized Telescope (LST) Collaboration announced through an Astronomer's Telegram (ATel) the detection of the source OP 313 at very high energies with the LST-1. Although OP 313 ...