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

Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in the night sky and a familiar landmark in the constellation Orion. It has also ...

While billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are focused on building rockets to reach space and other planets, former ...

Scientists have theorized that dark matter clumps exist in staggering numbers, far more than the galaxies we see. Only clumps ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope found a barred spiral galaxy that formed when the universe was only two billion years old ...

Scientists have spent six years building a sophisticated simulation system that creates "pixel-perfect" data that mimics what ...

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

A University of Utah research team’s rare find in a storage closet is being called a huge, historically significant discovery ...

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At the 247th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, this one held in Phoenix on January 4-8, Andrea Dupree of the Center for Astrophysics|Harvard & Smithsonian presented a talk entitled, ...

A Pittsburgh investment manager pleaded guilty Wednesday to a single count of wire fraud to resolve accusations he diverted ...