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

New telescope instruments now reveal distant galaxies in detail, reshaping how astronomers map dark matter, star formation, ...

Among the countless galaxies in the cosmos, some remain faint from Earth. NGC 4535, located about 50 million light-years away ...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife Wendy are privately funding four ambitious telescope projects, including the ...

Lazuli’s design features a 3.1-meter mirror, which would make it larger than NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (but smaller than ...

Controlling light is an important technological challenge—not just at the large scale of optics in microscopes and telescopes ...

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

Controlling light is an important technological challenge – not just at the large scale of optics in microscopes and telescopes, but also at the ...

"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 ...

A test model of the Perseverance rover, designed to explore the surface of Mars, sits in a garage at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

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