Astronomers using the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) instruments, the U.S.

A new low-frequency radio image offers the most comprehensive view yet of the Milky Way’s southern sky. Astronomers at the International Center of (ICRAR) have produced the most detailed low-frequency ...

Radio telescopes are instruments that capture faint radio signals from space and convert them into images of celestial bodies ...

If you look up at the sky on a clear night, shortly after one of SpaceX's many Falcon 9 rocket launches, you might see a bright string of lights zooming across the heavens. But behind these lights ...

For decades, scientists have observed the cosmos with radio antennas to visualize the dark, distant regions of the universe.

On January 10, 1946, the U.S. army bounced radar signals off of Earth's moon for the first time ever. Known as "Project Diana ...

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the Department of Physics at The University of Hong Kong ...

A NASA-funded plan to build a large radio telescope on the moon's far side is nearing final approval and could become a reality by the 2030s, researchers say. The ambitious project will help safeguard ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Slowly repeating bursts of intense radio waves from space have puzzled astronomers since they ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Researchers have successfully tested a new technology that detects fast radio bursts in the night ...

With their extremely strong magnetic fields, magnetars have long been considered the prime culprit capable of producing the powerful bursts of energy known as fast radio bursts. The recent burst, ...

Astronomers in Australia picked up a strange radio signal in June 2024 — one near our planet and so powerful that, for a moment, it outshined everything else in the sky. The ensuing search for its ...