The $10 billion orbiting observatory will give astronomers a better sense of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4's size and ...

Most massive galaxies have black holes at their cores that emit energetic particles, heating the galaxy’s gas and dust.

A neutrino telescope, therefore, is a giant exercise in statistics. Observe lots of atoms for a long time and sooner or later ...

"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...

The core of a massive cluster of galaxies appears to be pumping out far more stars than it should. Now researchers at MIT and ...

Using 20 years of data from the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have discovered that turbulent stars could be corrupting ...

Visible light — the light that our eyes can detect — makes up a small segment of the electromagnetic spectrum. Most people are familiar with optical telescopes, which take in visible light.

The US National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and the state of Bavaria will build a radio telescope on top of Germany’s highest mountain.

The MeerKAT telescope is located in the Karoo region of South Africa, is made up of 64 radio dishes and is operated and ...

The Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian Radio & Geoastronomy (R&G) division explores the Universe using the low-energy portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, including the radio, ...