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

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

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

On October 18, 2025, the 4-meter Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) facility, installed on the VISTA telescope at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Paranal Observatory in Chile, ...

With the arrival of the new "Fantastic Four: First Steps" film, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has revealed its own new superhero, a fiber optic insrument known as the 4-metre Multi-Object ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

In research that has all the makings of a blockbuster movie — with interstellar chemistry, million-year timescales, and high-powered lasers — Princeton chemists are expanding our understanding of the ...

A new study shows the European Extremely Large Telescope will be able to directly image and study the atmospheres of some potentially habitable exoplanets. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

Scientists at the University of Missouri have identified a small group of unusual objects in the early universe. Using NASA's ...

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has mapped the entire sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time, revealing cosmic secrets and enabling 3D mapping of galaxies.

The study of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) is driven by both scientific and practical reasons. Because of their proximity to our planet, they can provide key information regarding the delivery of water ...