Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...

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.

"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 ...

The frame of the dome that will house the world's largest telescope has been completed, marking another key milestone in the observatory's construction. The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

Members of the research team Grace Chesmore (left) and Katie Harrington (right) open the front of the tester used to analyze the Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope receiver optics. CREDIT ...

The Vaonis Hyperia telescope is priced to appeal to institutions such as observatories. It combines large optics with 17 ...

While the James Webb Space Telescope continues to make headlines, a much larger observatory is quietly being built on Earth.

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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 ...

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