The first successful use of a radio telescope on the moon has kicked off a new era of astronomy that could shed light on the cosmic dark ages – despite a bumpy landing. NASA’s ROLSES-1 (Radio ...

A recent study utilizing the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) has confirmed the "radio-quiet" characteristics of four magnetars and one magnetar-like pulsar.

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a federally funded research and development center for the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities for ...

Less than one per cent of the world’s biggest radio telescope is complete – but its first image reveals a sky dotted with ancient galaxies. Part of the world’s biggest mega-science facility – the SKA ...

Definition: Radio astronomy is a subfield of astronomy that studies celestial objects at radio frequencies. The initial detection of radio waves from the astronomical object was created in the 1930s ...

Now, Chinese scientists have proposed a plan to install a radio telescope on the far side of the moon. This part of the moon is not visible from Earth. According to Chinese media reports, the ...

It’s stargazing turnover time! Nighttimes are shrinking in Butler, and you’re forced to wait longer into the evening to begin ...

When it starts taking scientific data in 2028, the Square Kilometre Array Observatory promises to be the world’s largest and most sensitive radio telescope. But as Sarah Wild discovers, its ...

China has put forth a proposal to construct a large radio telescope array on the far side of the moon. For the last few years, concepts have been floating around of establishing a telescope on ...

In research published March 12 in Nature Astronomy, a team of astrophysicists finally found the source of strange, minute-long radio bursts. Called ILT J1101 + 5521, the source sends out ...

Scanning the sky with powerful radio telescopes will only lead to more incredible findings, she said.“The biggest would most likely be the discovery of technosignatures via SETI,” Hurley ...

LOFAR is the largest radio telescope operating at the lowest frequencies that can be detected from Earth. The pulse first appeared in LOFAR data in 2015, and after finding its first instance ...