After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A ...
In 2026, astronauts will travel around the moon for the first time since the Apollo era, powerful new space telescopes will ...
JWST peered at the glowing trail of stars left behind by a candidate runaway supermassive black hole deep in space, revealing ...
Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...
The Schmidts' philanthropic research organization will build a 3-meter space telescope and fund three ground-based facilities.
"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 ...
New telescope instruments now reveal distant galaxies in detail, reshaping how astronomers map dark matter, star formation, ...
Sneak peek on NASA exhibit on the Hubble and Webb space telescopes Saturday and Sunday; officially opens Wednesday and runs ...
Imagine having a telescope that could see almost 14 billion years back in time to when the universe was just forming. There is a project underway called CMB-S4 that plans to build two next-generation ...
Size matters when it comes to telescopes. The bigger they are, the farther they can see. Prioritizing constructing large ones ...
More than 100 years ago, astronomer George Ellery Hale brought our two Pasadena institutions together to build what was then the largest optical telescope in the world. The Mt. Wilson Observatory ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Barry Collins is a tech journalist writing about PCs, Macs and games. When you think of a telescope, you think of an enormous long ...