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

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife Wendy are spearheading one of the most ambitious private astronomy initiatives in ...

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

"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 ...

The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), a joint mission between the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) ...

But first, a bit of space telescope history. One of the most powerful space-based telescopes to be launched into the Earth’s ...

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

XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) spacecraft NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab The two space agencies of Japan and the United States are prepping for a major launch ...

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 ...

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

The flight of the telescope and lunar mission was postponed less than 30 minutes ahead of the scheduled liftoff because of poor weather. By Katrina Miller and Kenneth Chang JAXA, the Japanese space ...