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Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to the emergence of stars marks a critical shift known as Cosmic Dawn. Yet, astronomers have struggled to unravel details about the first ...
Scientists say that the construction of a vast new radio telescope array in the Utah desert — known as the Deep Synoptic ...
"This is a unique opportunity to learn how the universe's first light emerged from the darkness." ...
A powerful and mysterious blast of radio waves that astronomers believed was a fast radio burst (FRB) from far beyond the ...
NASA is developing a revolutionary plan to construct the largest space telescope ever—on the far side of the Moon. Using a lunar crater as a natural foundation, the proposed 350-meter-wide radio ...
Astronomers used an array of telescopes to find the most massive radio jet in the early universe. The celestial object is hundreds of thousands of light-years long.
When it starts taking scientific data in 2028, the Square Kilometre Array Observatory promises to be the world’s largest and most sensitive radio telescope. But as Sarah Wild discovers, its ...
A new telescope project called the Next-Generation Very Large Array will revolutionize radio astronomy if it gets the funding it needs ...
Astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to peer into the early universe and uncover the ...
Other ATA projects have included an effort to detect any radio signals coming from the object ‘Oumuamua, and from the direction of the WOW signal, uncovered in 1977 by the (now defunct) “Big Ear” ...
Much of the universe's regular "baryonic" matter is spread through intergalactic space and in diffuse halos around galaxies, researchers proposed after studying the behavior of fast radio bursts ...
The team demonstrated that by measuring variations in this signal, future radio telescopes could reveal the characteristics of these ancient stars.