Astronomers using the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) instruments, the U.S.

Scientists have unveiled a new way to capture ultra-sharp optical images without lenses or painstaking alignment. The ...

Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different ...

"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 ...

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.

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

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Observations of ultra-massive galaxies, each containing more than 100 billion stars, show that less than 2 billion years ...

A wobbling jet from a giant, voracious black hole is suppressing star formation in a distant galaxy—and astronomers have ...

For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...