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 ...

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.

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

Astronomers using the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) instruments, the U.S.

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

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

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

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. Now, with back-to-back ...

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

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

A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 radio signals of ...