China has achieved a major milestone in astronomical research with the launch of the Jiao Tong University Spectroscopic ...

A Quiet Revolution Unfolding Every Minute Anyone visiting China in the mid-1990s would have encountered a striking image: a ...

For example, a 1-meter diameter astronomical telescope is 2 million times larger than the wavelength of sunshine ascertained giving it a resolution of roughly zero.3 arc seconds, whereas a radio ...

Using the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), astronomers have discovered 15 new giant radio galaxies with ...

Mountain View, CA – The SETI Institute announced it will expand its pilot program funded through a grant from the Amateur ...

Just how powerful is the world's most powerful telescope? Let's start with the human eye. The human eye has an angular resolution of about 1 arcminute. That's pretty impressive. Take a circle ...

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 neighbourhood.

Using the MeerKAT radio telescope, scientists have detected numerous plasma structures near a twinkling pulsar, J0437-4715, revealing new insights into our cosmic neighborhood. The study unveils ...

Hubble is still going strong 35 years after it was launched into space. Celebrate its anniversary with some out-of-this-world images.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...