On January 18, 2002, the National Science Foundation formally opened the Gemini South telescope in Chile. This became the ...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, recently announced that they would finance, out of their own pocket, a ...

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

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 mountaintop by Tuesday morning, most of it falling by Sunday afternoon.

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

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

New Space is a term now commonly used around the rocketry and satellite industries to indicate a new, speed focused model of ...

Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton is still not open to the public, about two weeks after gusts of wind whipping around at ...

Lick Observatory is located on the summit of Mt. Hamilton in the Diablo Range east of San Jose. (Photo by Nick Gonzales/UC Santa Cruz) In an elementary school science class, Rav Kaur first learned ...

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

There are plenty of parades we can easily join in this world — the zany Doo Dah Parade in Pasadena welcomes anyone for a $10 fee — but there are a few noble processions that we must be satisfied from ...

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