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Scientists say that the construction of a vast new radio telescope array in the Utah desert — known as the Deep Synoptic ...
The ALMA radio telescope array in the Atacama Desert temporarily halted operations after a rare snowfall blanketed the base ...
The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...
A NASA satellite that’s been orbiting as space junk since 1967, Relay 2, emitted an unexpected, powerful radio burst that ...
A powerful and mysterious blast of radio waves that astronomers believed was a fast radio burst (FRB) from far beyond the ...
What happens when a relic of the early Space Age unexpectedly outshines the cosmos, even for a fleeting instant? In June 2024 ...
Our ability to study faint radio signals from when the first stars began to form is being threatened by SpaceX's Starlink ...
Astronomers studying a distant galaxy cluster stumbled upon ancient radio signals that might hold clues to the formation of ...
Astronomers uncover how massive stars form by tracking interstellar ammonia. Using the U.S. National Science Foundation ...
Galaxies have an overall internal motion called disk velocity. It’s how gas, dust, and stars move around the galactic center.
Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to light with the formation of the first stars and galaxies is a ...
Tributes have been paid to a "towering figure in British astronomy" who has died aged 102. Sir Francis Graham-Smith was ...