A rare ring of light surrounding a galaxy nearly 590 million light-years away from Earth has been discovered by a space ...

Unlike most radio telescopes, which focus on small points in the sky, CHIME scans a huge area, allowing it to pick out FRBs even though they almost never happen in the same place twice.

In a remarkable stride forward for astrophysics, researchers from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the powerful MeerKAT radio telescope have unveiled the existence of a rare giant radio ...

Astronomer Calvin Leung was excited last summer to crunch data from a newly commissioned radio telescope to precisely pinpoint the origin of repeated bursts of intense radio waves -- so-called ...

Two strange, icy objects in our galaxy that look unlike anything astronomers have ever seen could be an entirely new kind of star. In 2021, Takashi Shimonishi at Niigata University in Japan and ...

Some words may be mispronounced. The Very Long Baseline Array or VLBA is a network of 10 radio telescopes that spans from Mauna Kea, Hawaii to St. Croix, Virgin Islands. One of telescopes is ...

Until recently, GRGs were thought to be quite rare. However, a new generation of radio telescopes, such as South Africa's MeerKAT, have since turned this idea on its head. "The number of GRG ...

Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will be visible to the naked eye and Neptune and Uranus can be seen through a telescope. "You can tick them all off in five minutes," Chris Lintott, BBC Sky at ...

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are all bright enough to be visible to the naked eye, while Uranus and Neptune require binoculars or a telescope to spot. In January and February ...

Credit: NAOJ The James Webb Space Telescope has provided groundbreaking insights into a new type of exoplanet, fundamentally different from those in our Solar System, by piercing through thick cloud ...

The Subaru Telescope in Hawai‘i is adding a new instrument to its arsenal, one that will observe the cosmos through a compound eye. The compound eye will allow Subaru to observe about 2,400 ...