The 21st century is featuring a second space age that is increasingly private.

Without question, the Hubble Space Telescope is a marvel of technology. NASA and the scientific community recently celebrated the Hubble’s 35th anniversary, as well they should, considering the ...

Prior to World War II the vast majority of telescopes built around the world were funded by wealthy people with an interest in the heavens above. However, after the war, two significant developments ...

The venerable Hubble observatory is going strong despite its decades in space and the advent of next-generation successors ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has long been a cornerstone of our understanding of the universe, unveiling awe-inspiring images and groundbreaking data about galaxies, black holes, and the origins of ...

The first pictures NASA released from the James Webb Space Telescope demonstrate—in brilliant color—the advancements made in the technology. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see the advancements ...

Former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy Schmidt, have committed private funding to four ambitious telescope projects that together could reshape modern astronomy. Announced this ...

This is nice, but wish Schmidt, Gates, Buffet or someone would use that money to lobby for democracy in the US, because there are a lot of their ilk lobbying against it. Or at least lobby against ...