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

The Schmidts' philanthropic research organization will build a 3-meter space telescope and fund three ground-based facilities.

A USF professor and research team are using two NASA grants and the Hubble Space Telescope to test the mathematical model of ...

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Physicists from Trinity College Dublin believe new insights into the behavior of light may offer a new means of solving one ...

Controlling light is an important technological challenge—not just at the large scale of optics in microscopes and telescopes ...

With Seattle’s relatively low light, you might wonder if you can grow houseplants without resorting to industrial-strength ...

As reported by Science, the telescope was announced at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society this week and could be ...

Shaped quantum light is turning ordinary photons into powerful tools for the future of technology.

Liquids and solutions may look simple, but on the molecular scale they are constantly shifting and reorganizing. When sugar dissolves in water, each sugar molecule quickly becomes surrounded by fast ...