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

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is trying to do for astronomy what cheap cloud computing did for software, backing a space ...

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

New Mexico’s Plains of San Agustin are otherworldly: Silence, sand and sharp plants reign on the valley floor. Knobbly volcanic rock rises above. Pronghorns’ legs and jackrabbits’ ears break up the ...

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

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

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

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In this field, the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile stands out as one of the world’s most ...

In May 2022, the International Journal of Astrobiology published a paper suggesting a candidate source of the WOW! Signal: a possible Sun-like star in the Gaia Archive, 2MASS 19281982-2640123, located ...

ATLANTA — Georgia State University’s CHARA Array is set to receive a $1.39 million grant from the National Science Foundation to enhance its capabilities in observing stars across the visible and near ...