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

Astronomers are gathering in Phoenix this week for the 247th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS 247), where ...

For more than three months, a pair of observatories, positioned on either side of the Sun, managed to track an active region ...

The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...

From new exoplanetary neighbors and a weakening dark energy to the best evidence for life on Mars and an interstellar comet ...

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

In observations conducted between April 5 and April 10, 2017, the team looked at the relativistic jet produced by OJ 287, a ...

The latest news from around North Texas. The first full moon of 2026 will take place on January 3rd. That moon, known as the ...

Bigger than Hubble and launching as soon as 2029, the Lazuli Space Observatory would be the first-ever full-scale private ...

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

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

Amateur astronomers and stargazers on Staten Island and the New York metropolitan area will have an excellent opportunity to ...