"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 ...

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

An international team of astronomers has uncovered multiple evolutionary paths for the universe's most massive galaxies. Observations of ultramassive galaxies, each containing more than 100 billion ...

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

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

Observations of ultra-massive galaxies, each containing more than 100 billion stars, show that less than 2 billion years ...

What: Ultraviolet observations of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS captured by NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft while the ...

Optical sensors are a broad class of device for detecting light intensity. This can be just a simple component for notifying when ambient light levels rise above or fall below a prescribed level, or a ...

Fibre optics and optical communications is the use of thin strands of glass for sending information encoded into light over long distances. Total internal reflection prevents light inserted into one ...