A team of scientists from the Netherlands have proposed an exciting new approach for finding exoplanets: look for signs of…
When astronomers talk about an optical telescope, they often mention the size of its mirror. That's because the larger your…
A team of scientists in Canada have found a Fast Radio Burst (FRB) that repeats every 16 days. This is…
The theory of general relativity is packed with strange predictions about how space and time are affected by massive bodies.…
The world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope is officially open for business according to Xinhua, China's official state-run media.…
The Milky Way galaxy has its own magnetic field. It's extremely weak compared to Earth's; thousands of times weaker, in…
The Chang'e-4 satellite (Queqiao) recently deployed the NCLE radio observatory, a joint Netherlands-Chinese experiment that will probe the early Universe.
A team of scientists working with the Murchison Widefield Array (WMA) radio telescope are trying to find the signal from…
A new study by a pair of astronomers has shown that planets orbiting white dwarfs will still be emitting radio…
An Australian-led research effort has managed to pinpoint the location of the first non-repeating Fast Radio Burst, which could have…