The observatory, in fact, took its "first light" pictures on November 17, 2025, thereby confirming that both its Wide Field ...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is trying to do for astronomy what cheap cloud computing did for software, backing a space ...

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

NASA is ramping up work on one large space telescope while also laying the groundwork for future observatories.

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

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

NASA has selected L3Harrist o develop advanced optics and mirror systems for the Habitable Worlds Observatory, a flagship ...

2025 MN45 isn't the overall spin-rate record holder. Astronomers have found a number of small asteroids — those just a few ...

The Hubble telescope peered into small patches of sky, revealing thousands of galaxies that our human eyes can’t see. Using a different technique, SPHEREx will unveil the light of hidden galaxies on a ...

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

Every year, all telescopes on Earth and in space combined discover around 20,000 new asteroids. In just its first ten hours of activity, a single new observatory discovered 2,104 asteroids, or in ...

A has been around since the Chernobyl explosion and Space Shuttle Challenger accident...but perhaps not for much longer.