On Wednesday evening, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, announced a major investment in not just one ...

Former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt is turning his fortune toward the stars, pledging to personally bankroll a new ...

Former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy Schmidt, have committed private funding to four ambitious ...

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

The Hubble Space Telescope has long been a cornerstone of our understanding of the universe, unveiling awe-inspiring images ...

But first, a bit of space telescope history. One of the most powerful space-based telescopes to be launched into the Earth’s ...

Space shuttle Atlantis landed Sunday at Edwards Air Force Base after rainy weather in Florida precluded a landing at Kennedy Space Center. The shuttle touched down at 8:39 a.m. PT at Edwards, about ...

"Awards like these are a critical component of our incubator program for future missions, which combines government ...

A team of scientists has estimated that the Hubble Space Telescope could reenter Earth’s atmosphere and meet its fiery demise ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt's Lazuli, the first private space telescope in history, could fly to space as soon as 2029.

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a new type of cosmic object, a cloud of dark matter and gas ...

JWST peered at the glowing trail of stars left behind by a candidate runaway supermassive black hole deep in space, revealing ...