I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...

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

In the next few years, we will see some incredible observatories comie online. The Vera Rubin Observatory's science campaign is about to start. The Square Kilometer Array will have its first light ...

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

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

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

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

With the arrival of the new "Fantastic Four: First Steps" film, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has revealed its own new superhero, a fiber optic insrument known as the 4-metre Multi-Object ...

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

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

"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 ...