SHANGHAI -- Two radio telescopes with 40-meter-diameter antennas, one located in Northeast and the other in Southwest China, were put into use on Friday. These telescopes will aid in exploring deep ...

South Africa's MeerKAT telescope has discovered a massive new radio galaxy spanning more than 32 times the size of the Milky Way, a researcher revealed Saturday.

The first trial of an Australian-developed technology has detected mysterious objects by sifting through signals from space like sand on a beach. Astronomers and engineers at CSIRO, Australia's ...

We salute you, but you’d have to jump through a lot of hoops. China’s radio astronomy community may be young, but it’s thriving. The construction of the world’s largest telescope cemented ...

described the world’s largest and most sensitive single-dish radio telescope in China’s southwest province of Guizhou as “a terrific facility” with a global presence. “Kudos to the ...

China Einstein Probe EP astronomical satellite has for the first time in human history detected soft X-ray signals from an ...

Arecibo was the largest radio telescope until July 2016, when China finished the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope's (FAST) giant dish. That dish — the size of 30 football fields ...

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 ...

An upgrade to one of Australia's most capable radio telescopes is allowing astronomers to hunt for fast radio bursts (FRBs) at 10 times their typical efficiency. By sifting through billions of ...

China Einstein Probe EP astronomical satellite has for the first time in human history detected soft X-ray signals from an explosion in the early ...

A 14-year-old middle school student from Zhengzhou, Central China's Henan Province, built a Newtonian telescope from discarded plastic pipes, parts of a drum set, and other materials, all for just ...

Based on what scientists thought they knew about fast radio bursts, referred to in astronomy as FRBs, this type of galaxy should not contain the kind of star long thought to produce such bursts.