NASA's FLUTE project, focusing on liquid-mirror telescope technology, has received extended funding to investigate a 50-meter space telescope concept, building upon prior successful experiments in ...

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

In a major milestone for a decades-long project, the Giant Magellan Telescope project recently passed its final design review, locking in the design for the telescope enclosure and paving the way for ...

China is preparing to send a new kind of eye into orbit, a space observatory built to map the cosmos with a breadth and ...

An illuminating new program has stargazers and science educators aglow with inspiration. Founded by molecular biologist Raven Baxter, The Science Haven supports a vision to create an inclusive arena ...

The National Science Foundation will no longer fund the controversial Thirty Meter Telescope planned for construction atop Mauna Kea, instead choosing to back its international competitor, the Giant ...

Universe Today reports on a new telescope proposal that could help astronomers detect Earth-sized exomoons, explaining current limits, future technology, and why moons around distant planets matter ...