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 ...

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

It feels like every week now we're writing a new article about how 3I/ATLAS is not an alien technology. But it's worth ...

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

A pulsar’s gentle twinkle is revealing how space quietly bends and delays the signals we receive from the cosmos.

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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 ...

Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt aims to fly the first private space telescope by 2029. Will it pave the way for more private ...

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 ...

Astronomers using the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) instruments, the U.S.