For decades, scientists have observed the cosmos with radio antennas to visualize the dark, distant regions of the universe.

"The knowledge of these will ultimately help us understand the formation of the first stars and planets and how our own Milky ...

A billionaire-backed philanthropic organization is funding the development of a series of new observatories, including a space telescope larger than Hubble.

We now have direct images of two supermassive black holes: M87* and Sag A*. The fact that we can capture such images is ...

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 ...

The Square Kilometer Array will have its first light next year, and the Extremely Large Telescope will be completed and ...

The Cherenkov Telescope Array just got a major boost for distributing its data, a development that will expedite scientific discovery using the observatory. Reading time 2 minutes The European ...

Hoping to see deeper into the universe, scientists and engineers are designing some of the largest and weirdest telescopes ...

The 21st century is featuring a second space age that is increasingly private.

Researchers have developed a new method using the Allen Telescope Array to search for interplanetary radio communication in the TRAPPIST-1 star system. A new technique allows astronomers to home in on ...

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 ...