In 2026, astronauts will travel around the moon for the first time since the Apollo era, powerful new space telescopes will ...

NASA's SPHEREx telescope unveiled its first full-sky map of the universe, combining more than 100 infrared observations into ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope, a $10 billion project by NASA, faced an unexpected challenge post-launch when its images started to blur, compromising its deep-space observations. In a remarkable turn ...

"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 ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt's Lazuli, the first private space telescope in history, could fly to space as soon as 2029.

Astronomers using theSubaru Telescope in Hawaiʻi have made groundbreaking discoveries, unveiling a massive planet and a brown dwarf orbiting distant stars. These findings, detailed in a study ...

Jacob Payne, a graduate student and research assistant at the University of Iowa’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, landed a NASA grant to build a small X-ray telescope that can assist with deep ...

After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A ...

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

Scientists using a global array of radio telescopes have detected the universe’s lowest-mass dark object by observing how it warped light through gravitational lensing. The invisible mass, about a ...

Is your head spinning as much as mine when it comes to new technology lately? It’s hard to keep up with it all, but you want to do the best you can because there are so many new developments. In my ...