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

Development of the Lazuli Space Observatory space-based telescope would be led by Schmidt Sciences, which characterizes it as ...

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

The University of Texas at Austin's Daniel T. Jaffe has been appointed as the new president of the Giant Magellan Telescope ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Scientists outline the scientific and technical case for building a northern-hemisphere 30-meter telescope at La Palma to support time-domain and multi-messenger astronomy.

A Dublin man is leading the construction of the world's largest ever telescope. The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is ...

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

Size matters when it comes to telescopes. The bigger they are, the farther they can see. Prioritizing constructing large ones ...