MeerKAT has already played a key role in uncovering some of the hidden treasures of the southern sky since it became operational in 2018, and in addit ...

Last summer, astronomer Calvin Leung was excited to analyze data from a newly built radio telescope. His goal was to pinpoint ...

ALIENS could discover humans on Earth by spotting one of 12 signs, scientists say. Topping the list is a clue that could be seen by extraterrestrials from a mammoth 12,000 lightyears away. The ...

Astronomers from Turkey and Japan have performed optical observations of a recently discovered nearby supernova remnant known ...

Astronomers tracking mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs) stumbled upon an unexpected cosmic puzzle. A burst was detected from ...

Scientists used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine select star-forming areas in the Extreme Outer Galaxy in near- ...

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 ...

“This is the first fast radio burst (FRB) found outside a dead galaxy and is farther from its associated galaxy than any ...

Instead of finding the radio burst in a region of young stars, researchers traced its origin to the outskirts of a “dead” ...

Unprecedented discovery of fast radio bursts challenges existing theories. Astronomers detect repeated signals from an ...

The journey of astronomical telescopes began in the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei crafted his first refracting telescope in 1609. Although not the inventor of the telescope, Galileo was the ...

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 ...