We thought we broadly understood how planets and stars form. But the discovery of dozens of pairs of young planets in a ...

Supermassive black holes that are blasting out beams of high-energy particles killing star formation in their galaxies are ...

Views of a massive galaxy cluster Abell 2256 have been captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton and three radio telescopes (LOFAR, the GMRT and the VLA). See a composite ...

But to push the boundaries of astronomy while planted solidly on the ground, Earth-bound observatories tend to be among the most extreme scientific facilities on the planet. This radio astronomy ...

In the heart of this landscape, near the small Northern Cape town of Carnarvon, the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory operates a technological marvel that has transformed our understanding ...

It was detected by an enormous single-dish radio telescope at the Parkes Observatory ... simultaneously watching uncompressed YouTube videos into a box the size of a fridge, that’s probably ...

Light comes from the distant universe in different wavelengths: radio, infrared, optical (visible), X-ray and gamma-ray. The longer wavelengths of infrared light are critical for astronomy but are ...

The Moon is uniquely suitable for researchers to build telescopes they can't put on Earth because it doesn't have as much ...

Radio astronomy uses radio antennas, rather than mirrors and cameras, to detect radio emission from astronomical objects. Many things in the Universe emit radio waves, including stars, planets, ...

Former deputy prime minister Michael McCormack discusses the Central West NSW town Parkes with Sky News host Paul Murray. Mr ...

We must preserve and protect this precious gift that nature has given us. Because radio astronomy developed in parallel with the use of radio communication, we have never had the ability to ...

From centuries-old solar observatories in Mexico to cutting-edge radio telescopes in the Andes, the region is home to some of the most exciting astronomical discoveries and space research. Science ...