On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring ...

The University of Texas at Austin’s Daniel T. Jaffe has been appointed as the new president of the Giant Magellan Telescope ...

Both NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory caught these two galaxies in a close embrace.

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...

After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

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

Scientists observing the red giant star R Doradus have found that starlight isn’t strong enough to drive its stellar winds, ...

Scientists all over the world are celebrating because of a discovery made by a telescope's camera built in the Bay Area.

The National Weather Service expects a storm to hit Mount Hamilton on Friday night and bring 2 to 2 1/2 inches of rain to the ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

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