When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A composite image of the South African MeerKAT radio telescope array with vast, cosmic bubbles of ...

New Mexico’s Plains of San Agustin are otherworldly: Silence, sand and sharp plants reign on the valley floor. Knobbly volcanic rock rises above. Pronghorns’ legs and jackrabbits’ ears break up the ...

ALMA in Chile receives 145 low-noise amplifiers for Band 2, enabling detailed studies of cold interstellar gas, planet-forming disks, and organic molecules in nearby galaxies.

May 1, 2023, Mountain View, CA – One of the world’s most powerful radio telescope arrays is joining the hunt for signals from other galactic civilizations. The National Science Foundation’s Karl G.

In the high desert of New Mexico, a few hours southwest of Albuquerque, is the Very Large Array, or VLA for short. It’s the largest telescope in the world, using 27 individual antenna to listen to the ...

More than 100 researchers and students from South Africa and around the world are meeting this week to share plans to use the MeerKAT radio telescope. The MeerKAT Science Workshop will be held at the ...

The MSH 15-52 nebula has been captured by the Australia Telescope Compact Array and Chandra’s X-ray Telescope in this ...

A comet from another star system is sweeping through our cosmic backyard and, for the first time, astronomers have picked up ...

Imaging technology has transformed how we observe the universe—from mapping distant galaxies with radio telescope arrays to ...

A giant galaxy measuring 3.3 million light-years across has been found by astronomers using the South African MeerKAT radio telescope, an array of 64 antennas in the Meerkat National Park in the ...

While the scientific community grapples with the loss of the Arecibo radio telescope, astronomers who recently revived a long-dormant radio telescope array in Argentina hope it can help modestly ...