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 ...

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

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

The Square Kilometer Array will have its first light next year, and the Extremely Large Telescope will be completed and ...

China has put forth a proposal to construct a large radio telescope array on the far side of the moon. For the last few years, concepts have been floating around of establishing a telescope on the ...

Development of the Lazuli Space Observatory space-based telescope would be led by Schmidt Sciences, which characterizes it as ...

Targeting star systems identified by Kepler Space Telescope (especially those in habitable-zone candidate planets). Surveying a region near the Milky Way’s Galactic Center (where stellar density is ...

South Africa’s SKA-Mid telescope comes alive as "first fringes" confirm it is now a working scientific instrument.

The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is located at the Hat Creek Observatory in the Cascade Mountains of California, approximately 300 miles to the north of San Francisco and two dozen miles north of ...