Astronomers using the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) have detected a long-period radio transient with a period of 36 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A composite image of the ...

Astronomers using MeerKAT have detected the most distant and powerful "cosmic laser" ever observed, offering new insights ...

Large radio telescope systems are pivotal instruments in modern astronomy and related fields, as they enable the capture of faint cosmic signals and support various high-resolution observational ...

Isolation dictates where we go to see into the far reaches of the universe. The Atacama Desert of Chile, the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the vast expanse of the Australian Outback—these are where ...

Get ready to see our galaxy like never before. Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have released an incredible image of the Milky Way shining in low-frequency ...

Amateur astronomers using the Dwingeloo Radio Observatory in the northeastern Netherlands have picked up a signal from NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, over 25 billion kilometers (15 billion miles) away.

Astronomers have spotted the brightest fast radio burst yet coming from a nearby galaxy. Observations of this phenomenon, a powerful flash of radio waves that lasts only about a millisecond, could ...

For radio astronomy, things get even better during the lunar night, when the sun drops beneath the horizon and is blocked by the moon’s mass. For up to 14 Earth-days at a time, a spot on the moon’s ...