A new batch of 15 Giant Radio Galaxies, the largest of which is 12.4 light-years wide, could help reveal how black holes and galactic mergers help the universe's largest single objects grow so large.

Astronomers have created a galactic masterpiece: an ultra-detailed image that reveals previously unseen features in the Sculptor Galaxy. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope ...

Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?

Rumors began swirling about the demise of NASA science in April, when a leaked OMB document described some of the proposed cuts and cancellations. Those included both the beleaguered, bloated Mars ...

While conventional images contain only a handful of colours, this new ... Very Large Telescope and its Very Large Telescope Interferometer, as well as survey telescopes such as VISTA. Also at Paranal ...

I decided to be a radio astronomer in high school, thanks to Carl Sagan’s 1985 novel Contact, in which the heroine, Ellie Arroway, uses the Very Large Array (VLA) in New Mexico to discover an ...

After breakfast, you will journey through the desert to the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA), an astronomical interferometer made up of 66 high-precision radio telescopes.

Severe thunderstorms with very large hail, strong winds, and isolated tornadoes are likely in areas of eastern New Mexico on Friday.

The SETI Institute and SpaceX have launched a groundbreaking collaboration to help protect sensitive radio astronomy observations at the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) from interference caused by ...

In a new study published in Astronomy and Astrophysics, researchers used the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on the telescope to valiantly observe the Sculptor Galaxy for 50 hours.

Although REACH, which captures radio signals, is still in its calibration stage, it promises to reveal data about the early universe. Meanwhile, the Square Kilometer Array (SKA)—a massive array ...

The SETI Institute team tackles this complex challenge using a diverse range of scientific methodologies. Researchers here play key roles in predicting, guiding, and interpreting observations from ...