I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...
LuSEE-Night will listen for faint signals from the cosmic dark ages, a period that began about 380,000 years after the big ...
AUSTIN (KXAN) — One of the largest telescopes ever built is one step closer to completion. On June 12, the National Science Foundation announced that the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is entering the ...
China's space agency is building a new space telescope that will rival current top-tier observatories. Known as the China Space Station Telescope (CSST), it will not only be as powerful as the cutting ...
On Wednesday evening, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, announced a major investment in not just one ...
The Schmidts' philanthropic research organization will build a 3-meter space telescope and fund three ground-based facilities.
NASA doesn't plan to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope until 2027, but a core component of the telescope is now complete. The team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center reports that the ...
On Valentine's Day 1990, from a dark and frozen spot on the outer edges of our solar system, the spacecraft Voyager 1 turned around to take one last photo of the world it left behind. Viewed from a ...
Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...