It’s rare these days for astronomers to find a new class of object in the heavens. After all, we’ve been searching the skies for centuries, so all the easy stuff has already been found. Adding new ...

and the South African MeerKAT radio telescope, comprising 64 antennas. Both are continuously involved in performing surveys of the night sky, but ASKAP in particular is leading one called the ...

Have you ever had an X-ray taken of your bones? Well, so has the Milky Way. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory regularly images ...

The world’s big space powers are racing to send humans back to the Moon. Unlike the Apollo astronauts, this next generation ...

Sagittarius C, a turbulent region near the Milky Way’s center, is glowing with hot plasma and threaded by magnetic fields, ...

Dubbed AT2024tvd, the burst of radiation from this " tidal disruption event " (TDE) was also picked up by NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Large Array ...

Maybe [Paul Scott] and [Allen Versfeld]’s Tiny Radio Telescope project will change that view. The NRAO published a radio telescope design a few years ago for use mainly as an educational tool ...

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

The Brandeis Radio Astronomy Group consists of Professors John Wardle and ... Our group pioneered the techniques of making linear polarization images at milliarcsecond resolution using VLBI. Recently, ...

With the most powerful radio telescope in the southern hemisphere, we have observed a twinkling star and discovered an abundance of mysterious plasma structures in our cosmic neighborhood.