The completed Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is intended to consist of approximately 350 6.1 meter offset Gregorian dishes at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory site in northern California. Given the number ...

The primary challenge in satellite laser downlinks is atmospheric turbulence, which distorts and weakens signals.

Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?

The European Space Agency’s Proba-3 mission satellites aligned to cause a solar eclipse that helped record and study the ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has achieved a rather unusual feat, successfully creating and maintaining artificial solar ...

Black holes are invisible, yet they are among the brightest things in the universe. If a star wanders too close to a black hole, it gets torn apart in a fireworks show called a tidal disruption event.

In the vast cosmos, fast radio bursts (FRBs) remain one of the most mysterious astrophysical phenomena ever discovered. These ...

Part of the closest star-forming region to us, known as the Chamaeleon Complex, has been illuminated by the light of young ...

Astronomers in China have observed a pulsar that becomes partially eclipsed by an orbiting companion star every few hours.

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