Thanks to the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics (IAF) and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, ...

Astronomers using the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) instruments, the U.S.

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

It feels like every week now we're writing a new article about how 3I/ATLAS is not an alien technology. But it's worth ...

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.

A distant pulsar’s radio signal flickers as it passes through space, much like stars twinkle in Earth’s atmosphere. By ...

Scientists from the Telescope Array Collaboration have detected an ultrahigh-energy cosmic ray, a discovery that’s challenging our current understanding of exotic cosmic phenomena and their origins.

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

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

The Very Large Array will look for artificially produced radio signals. Image: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF; Hubble Legacy Archive, ESA, NASA The SETI Institute said this week that the Very Large Array, ...

Scientists have unveiled a new way to capture ultra-sharp optical images without lenses or painstaking alignment. The ...