Former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt is turning his fortune toward the stars, pledging to personally bankroll a new space telescope designed to take over where Hubble leaves off. Framed as part ...

Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011, and the company’s executive chairman from 2011 to 2015, has announced together ...

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

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife Wendy are privately funding four ambitious telescope projects, including the space telescope Lazuli, designed to be a modern Hubble successor. This ...

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 ...