Of all the mysteries that the massive James Webb Space Telescope has seen so far in the early universe, one of the strangest are objects that astronomers now call "little red dots." Like the nickname ...

WHEN considering radio-transit telescopes, one ordinarily speaks in terms of instruments steerable in altitude. However, transit telescopes steered in azimuth have potentialities which should be ...

The legacy of Arecibo's nearly 60 years of astronomy research is strong, even after its loss in a dramatic 2020 collapse. Arecibo Observatory, located in Puerto Rico, was the world's second ...

There are some things that they could do to try and lower the effects on radio astronomy, for example turning off their transmitters when they are over radio telescopes. But the reality is that if ...

You and I are living through a revolution in amateur astronomy ... telescope. The black plastic body is made of two parts: the optical tube and the housing for the alt-azimuth mount and controls.

Scientists with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) managed to nail down the source of a fast radio burst (FRB) in outer space on Wednesday (1 January). According to MIT, FRBs are “brief ...

Two radio telescopes with 40-meter-diameter antennas, one located on Changbai Mountains, Jilin province, and the other in Shigatse, Xizang autonomous region, have been put into operation.

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the largest digital camera ever made. High atop Chile’s 2,700-meter Cerro ...

Touch down: an image of the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon taken by the Lunar Excursion Vehicle-2 shows the craft landed on its nose (Courtesy: JAXA) In February, meanwhile, US firm Intuitive ...