Astronomers have detected rare radio waves from a binary star system, challenging previous ideas about their origins. These ...

Part of the worlds biggest mega-science facility the SKA Observatory is being built in outback Western Australia. After decades of planning, countless hours of work, and more than a few setbacks, an ...

Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...

The team tracked the signal back to a strange binary system containing a dead star or " white dwarf " and a red dwarf stellar ...

A research team led by McGill identifies neutron stars as the likely source of fast radio bursts, one of the universe's most ...

Small stars that are far away tend to be faint and hard to see. De Ruiter and her colleagues used the Multiple Mirror ...

Recently, astronomers have been puzzled by an unknown type of cosmic radio signal. A new breakthrough has finally traced one ...

Radio astronomers can study emissions from gas giant planets, blasts from the hearts of galaxies, or even precisely ticking ...

By analyzing the data from Leahy's atlas of double radio-sources and NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED), Serbian astronomers have explored an X-shaped radio galaxy designated 3C 315. Results of ...

Most of them flare just once, randomly, making them impossible to predict, and very difficult to trace back to a source. Some ...

In 2007 astronomers discovered a strange event in data obtained using the 63m radio telescope at Parkes, Australia. It was a ...

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of nearly every big galaxy—including ours, the Milky Way (it's called ...