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 ...

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

CAPE TOWN, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Square Kilometer Array Observatory (SKAO) announced on Wednesday that the growing SKA-Mid telescope array in South Africa has achieved "first fringes" using two of ...

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

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 ...

显然，VLA的命名并非真的如此草率，但毫无疑问，这个阵列的命名成为20世纪天文界命名风格的一次关键转折。它放弃了冗长的传统命名方式——以建造者、所在地、机构名称或设备尺寸命名——而选择了使用“超大”（Very Large）这样略显抽象的词汇来标识设备 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A composite image of the South African MeerKAT radio telescope array with vast, cosmic bubbles of ...

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 ...

Observatory (SKAO) has announced the successful conclusion of a key test of its South Africa-based SKA-Mid instrument. The ...

Researchers have developed a new method using the Allen Telescope Array to search for interplanetary radio communication in the TRAPPIST-1 star system. A new technique allows astronomers to home in on ...