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 ...

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

In the next few years, we will see some incredible observatories comie online. The Vera Rubin Observatory's science campaign ...

China has put forth a proposal to construct a large radio telescope array on the far side of the moon. For the last few years, concepts have been floating around of establishing a telescope on the ...

The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is located at the Hat Creek Observatory in the Cascade Mountains of California, approximately 300 miles to the north of San Francisco and two dozen miles north of ...

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 ...

Inside, an array of optical telescopes, operated by members of China's 42nd Antarctic expedition team, begins its nightly vigil. These instruments represent China's "eyes on the sky" at the Earth's ...

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 ...

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

Targeting star systems identified by Kepler Space Telescope (especially those in habitable-zone candidate planets). Surveying a region near the Milky Way’s Galactic Center (where stellar density is ...