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 ...

A South African telescope has identified a colossal galaxy stretching 3.3 million light-years, over 32 times the size of the ...

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.

Astronomers and engineers at CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, developed the specialized system, CRACO, for their ASKAP radio telescope ... says the scale of observation enabled by ...

Fast radio bursts are mysterious and brief flashes of radio emissions that were thought to be produced by magnetars, highly magnetized rotating neutron stars. Yet magnetars appear primarily in young ...

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

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are among the most energetic phenomena observed in the universe. These luminous objects, powered ...

Giant ground-based reflector telescopes do much of astronomy's heavy lifting, although the U.S.'s largest in Hawaii is not ...

The radio telescope, made up of four large half-pipe-shaped receivers ... gave a direct constraint on the scale of the emission region … presenting very convincing evidence that the FRB emission ...

Space advertising is not currently a problem, but the enterprise needs to be smothered before it has a chance to grow, according to a group of concerned astronomers.