New Mexico’s Plains of San Agustin are otherworldly: Silence, sand and sharp plants reign on the valley floor. Knobbly volcanic rock rises above. Pronghorns’ legs and jackrabbits’ ears break up the ...

For decades, scientists have observed the cosmos with radio antennas to visualize the dark, distant regions of the universe.

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

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

In a massive explosion of a black hole ripping apart a star, a dense gas cocoon was found surrounding the explosion, ...

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

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

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

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