Located south of Bend’s outdoor playland, I visited this Pacific Northwest gem for an enchanted winter evening of ...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife Wendy are spearheading one of the most ambitious private astronomy initiatives in ...

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

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 ...

A billionaire-backed philanthropic organization is funding the development of a series of new observatories, including a ...

NASA announced the selection of industry proposals to advance technologies for the agency’s Habitable Worlds Observatory concept.

The James Webb Space Telescope is not circling our planet the way most people imagine a satellite does. Instead, NASA parked ...

Winds exceeding 110 mph that tore across the top of Mount Hamilton early Christmas morning blasted a massive steel protective door off the iconic white dome at Lick Observatory.

A first-of-its-kind space telescope could soon launch into orbit and potentially chart a new path forward for astronomy.

Donald G. York, an astronomer with the University of Chicago who helped revolutionize the field as a co-founder of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and made pioneering contributions to the study of the ...

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