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.

New Space is a term now commonly used around the rocketry and satellite industries to indicate a new, speed focused model of ...

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 space telescope searching for life beyond Earth.

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

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 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NASA has tapped startup Katalyst to save a $500 million orbiting observatory from falling into Earth's atmosphere by launching a spacecraft meant to push it farther in space, a ...