Using China's FAST radio telescope, a team of Chinese researchers observed previously-unmapped regions of the Milky Way and made some…
For decades, astronomers have advocated building radio telescopes on the far side of the Moon. This “radio-quiet” zone always faces…
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When observing a black hole that devoured a star three years earlier, an international team of astronomers noticed it "burping"…
Radio astronomy has been in flux lately. With the permanent loss of the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico, a new…
Do aliens exist? Almost certainly. The universe is vast and ancient, and our corner of it is not particularly special.…
Well, this is the week for distant galaxies, isn't it? Not only has JWST revealed some of the most distant…
Astronomers have discovered a neutron star so young it's barely a teenager.
The MeerKAT array just combined the power of its 64 radio telescopes to create a single telescope, which is already…
Using the MeerKAT array, an international team of astronomers has detected a new class of radio-emitting neutron star!