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Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

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Radio astronomers can study emissions from gas giant planets, blasts from the hearts of galaxies, or even precisely ticking ...

Radio astronomy became an important branch of astronomy in the years following the Second World War. In those days the ...

Pober works with Murchison Widefield Array, a radio telescope in Australia. Unlike the more commonly known optical telescopes — which use cameras and lenses to detect light — radio telescopes use ...

An image of the Phoenix cluster constructed with observations from the Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory, and the Very Large Array radio telescope. | Credit: NASA, CXC, NRAO ...

In 1977, a mysterious 72-second space signal was detected. Was it aliens? Explore the Wow! Signal. In 1977, astronomers detected the Wow! Signal, a mysterious 72-second radio burst from deep space ...