Large radio telescopes are essential tools for astronomical research, allowing scientists to observe celestial phenomena by detecting radio waves emitted from various sources in the universe.

Giant ground-based reflector telescopes do much of astronomy's heavy lifting, although the U.S.'s largest in Hawaii is not ...

Astronomer Calvin Leung was excited last summer to crunch data from a newly commissioned radio telescope to precisely ...

After more than a decade of development and four years of operations, the MeerKAT team have, in a short time, achieved remarkable advances in radio astronomy. Among many breakthrough observations, the ...

Astronomers have traced two mysterious fast radio bursts from space to wildly different places, which suggests the phenomenon ...

Fast radio bursts are mysterious and brief flashes of radio emissions that were thought to be produced by magnetars, highly magnetized rotating neutron stars. Yet magnetars appear primarily in young ...