The ESIS-II mission aims to capture high-speed “snapshot” images of the Sun’s transition region and corona. To achieve this, ...

PASADENA, CA – January 13, 2026 – The GMTO Corporation, the international consortium building the Giant Magellan Telescope, ...

First light for the innovative new instrument is anticipated in 2028. Spectre — once operational — will play a key role in ...

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

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

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

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

When an interstellar comet goes behind the Sun from the Earth’s perspective, science does not hit pause it relocates. In the ...

At roughly 250,000 kilometers per hour, comet 3I/ATLAS did not merely pass through the inner solar system it tore through it, ...

An instrument aboard NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft captured rare ultraviolet observations of an interstellar comet while Earth-based telescopes were blinded by the Sun. The spacecraft’s unique ...

Bigger than Hubble and launching as soon as 2029, the Lazuli Space Observatory would be the first-ever full-scale private ...

China’s Xuntian space telescope completed a full performance simulation, confirming operational readiness for its planned ...