M87* and Sag A*. The fact that we can capture such images is remarkable, but they might be the only black holes we can ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured a colorful portrait of a nearby stellar cradle, revealing a wealth of insights about ...

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

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

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

Professors at Penn State helped develop the world’s most powerful survey telescope, which released its first images earlier this week from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The images capture ...

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

A first-of-its-kind space telescope could soon launch into orbit and potentially chart a new path forward for astronomy.

Scientists have spent six years building a sophisticated simulation system that creates "pixel-perfect" data that mimics what the telescope will see at a pixel level to test the Chinese Space Station ...

Satellites in low Earth orbit currently disrupt radioastronomical observations hundreds of times a day. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Donald G. York, an astronomer with the University of Chicago who helped revolutionize the field as a co-founder of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and made pioneering contributions to the study of the ...