Using 20 years of data from the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have discovered that turbulent stars could be corrupting ...

The MeerKAT telescope is located in the Karoo region of South Africa, is made up of 64 radio dishes and is operated and managed by the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory. It’s a precursor to ...

During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...

A new form of black hole archeology, linking spin to gas and dust, has revealed that these cosmic titans spin faster than ...

If an extraterrestrial civilization existed with technology comparable to ours, would they be able to detect Earth?

Newly discovered Quipu, a superstructure in which galaxies group together in clusters and clusters of clusters, is the ...

While space harbors plenty of mysteries, it turns out that Uranus' smell isn't one of them. Here's the explanation for why it ...

This course provides an introduction to modern observational methods used in astronomy ... you will have knowledge of an overview of telescopes used in the visible part of the spectrum and other ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that propagate away from colliding black holes, ...

occupy and attack increasingly rare gaps in the spectrum where signals can get through. “What you’re seeing in Ukraine is electromagnetic manoeuvre warfare in action,” says Thomas Withington ...