According to the most widely accepted cosmological theories, the first stars in the Universe formed a few hundred million years…
In the coming years, China's FAST radio telescope could join in the hunt for extraterrestrials thanks to a partnership with…
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…