WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NASA has tapped startup Katalyst to save a $500 million orbiting observatory from falling into Earth's atmosphere by launching a spacecraft meant to push it farther in space, a ...

John Ventre holds up a slice of a partially translucent meteorite from his collection at the Cincinnati Observatory. Space is dirty. Filthy. It's littered with asteroids, and rocks, and dust. Some of ...

That's Griffith Observatory, of course, a building that sits quite far from both our lunar bestie and nearest star, ...

NASA released a new image of its next-generation Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope undertaking testing to simulate vibrations ...

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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is trying to do for astronomy what cheap cloud computing did for software, backing a space telescope larger than Hubble at a cost he describes as “ridiculously” low ...

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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife Wendy are spearheading one of the most ambitious private astronomy initiatives in history. The couple is funding four next-generation telescopes through ...

In 1974, the Arecibo Observatory made history by beaming the most powerful radio message into deep space ever made. The famous Arecibo Message was designed by the AO 74's staff, led by Frank Drake, ...