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

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"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 ...

Astronomers spotted nine galaxies with characteristics that have never been seen as a collection before. It's possible this ...

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

On Wednesday evening, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, announced a major investment in not just one ...

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NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has mapped the entire sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time, revealing cosmic secrets and enabling 3D mapping of galaxies.

Webb observations of the Sextans A galaxy reveal how stars in a metal-poor areas create cosmic dust, offering clues about the ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted two rare kinds of dust in the dwarf galaxy Sextans A, one ...

(THE CONVERSATION) After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A couple more test flights, and SpaceX plans to launch it ...