The wavelengths of radio light are so large that you can't capture a high-resolution image with a single dish. To capture an ...

China has completed the world’s largest radio telescope, known as FAST — but its true purpose goes beyond size. In this video, we explore how the FAST telescope works, what it's listening for, and why ...

Astronomers have created the most detailed low-frequency map of the Milky Way, revealing otherwise hidden stars and ...

The world's largest fully-steerable telescope at the U.S. National Science Foundation Observatory at Green Bank, West ...

An international team of astronomers has created the first-ever large-scale maps of a mysterious form of matter, known as ...

Japanese scientists simulated faint 21-centimeter radio waves from the Universe’s “Dark Ages,” offering a potential way to detect dark matter. About 13.8 billion years ago, the Universe emerged in a ...

Brooks, which visits the Earth roughly every 71 years, was spotted releasing intriguing radio signals last year.

This telescope attaches to your smartphone and lets you zoom in on stuff that's far away. It's a fun accessory that's perfect ...

Centuries before anyone pointed a telescope at the sky, Isaac Newton figured out how gravity works. He showed that any object ...

Three enormous and peculiar radio light rings were discovered far, far outside our own galaxy, shedding more light on one of the enigmas that have long perplexed astronomers. The find was reported by ...

Simulated distributions of cold and warm dark matter are shown using particles color-coded by temperature, accompanied by an illustration of lunar telescopes. Tsukuba, Japan—The Universe was born 13.8 ...