The MeerKAT telescope is located in the Karoo region of South Africa, is made up of 64 radio dishes and is operated and ...

Large radio telescopes are essential tools for astronomical research, allowing scientists to observe celestial phenomena by detecting radio waves emitted from various sources in the universe.

Astronomer Calvin Leung was excited last summer to crunch data from a newly commissioned radio telescope to precisely pinpoint the origin of repeated bursts of intense radio waves—so-called fast radio ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant radio galaxy with plasma jets stretching an incredible 3.3 million light-years—32 times ...

Astronomers have detected fast-repeating radio bursts from a distant "dead" galaxy that should not contain the energy to ...

Astronomers have traced two mysterious fast radio bursts from space to wildly different places, which suggests the phenomenon ...

Description: The invention of the cosmic microwave background signal, thought to be proof for the Big Bang theory, was created through radio astronomy. Radio astronomy is conducted using giant radio ...

First Step on the Way to a Video of the Black Hole In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration made history by ...

Adam Leroy, a professor of astronomy at The Ohio State University, has been named the recipient of the 2025 Henry Draper Medal.