The GMRT’s 30 antennas work together as a single telescope by combining data from all antennas. The question now is: can we push this beyond 30 km — to 100 km, 500 km, even 1,000 km? In principle, it ...

The first pulsar was discovered in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Finding these mysterious signals forever changed astronomy.

China’s plan to build a radio telescope at the Félix Aguilar Astronomical Observatory in Argentina has been halted by ...

SETI's 1977 "Wow!" signal from deep space was even stronger than originally thought, but its source remains a complete ...

While NASA's James Webb Telescope and other instruments have already spotted abundant water vapor, carbon monoxide and carbon ...

When Cornell built the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico more than 60 years ago, it was the world's largest. Now, ...

Astronomers using the NSF Very Large Array report the first radio detection of a rare Type Ibn supernova, revealing how a massive star lost helium-rich material in the years before its explosion ...

A University of Manchester astronomer is set to build the most detailed and accurate model of the radio sky ever built, ...

Astronomers have long been concerned about reflections from satellites showing up in images taken by telescopes and other ...

Bob Benjamin is an ORHS Class of 1983 alumnus who has tirelessly worked to figure out what the Milky Way looks like.

For decades, astronomers have mapped the Milky Way using visible light, but much of our galaxy has remained hidden behind ...

An exponential increase in the number of satellites placed in low-Earth orbit has brought advances in telecommunications ...