New Mexico’s Plains of San Agustin are otherworldly: Silence, sand and sharp plants reign on the valley floor. Knobbly volcanic rock rises above. Pronghorns’ legs and jackrabbits’ ears break up the ...
Astronomers using the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) instruments, the U.S.
In the high desert of New Mexico, a few hours southwest of Albuquerque, is the Very Large Array, or VLA for short. It’s the largest telescope in the world, using 27 individual antenna to listen to the ...
In a massive explosion of a black hole ripping apart a star, a dense gas cocoon was found surrounding the explosion, ...
On Wednesday evening, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, announced a major investment in not just one ...
Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...
A billionaire-backed philanthropic organization is funding the development of a series of new observatories, including a ...
The Schmidts' philanthropic research organization will build a 3-meter space telescope and fund three ground-based facilities.
Scientists have identified a strange cosmic relic called Cloud-9 — a starless, gas-filled object dominated by dark matter.
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