New Mexico has quickly become a global star thanks to the film industry. The Land of Enchantment has served as both the final ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) captured imagery of a pair of stars called Wolf-Rayet 140. "Shells of cosmic dust created by the interaction of binary stars appear ...

Radio astronomers see what the naked eye can't. As we study the sky with telescopes that record radio signals rather than light, we end up seeing a lot of circles. The newest generation of radio ...

An illustration of a magnetar's magnetic field lines causing energy to flow away from the object itself. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) ...

A recent study utilizing the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) has confirmed the "radio-quiet" characteristics of four magnetars and one magnetar-like pulsar.

Thanks to the burgeoning field of radio astronomy, which wields massive antennas on telescopes to collect and send radio waves to and from space, we made our first attempts to communicate with ...

G. Karl Smith, age 86, passed away peacefully at home, on Friday, February 28, 2025. He is survived by his beloved wife of 57 years, Jeanne (Birdsall) Smith; two sons, Karl (Mary) Smith and ...

Fast radio bursts are an intriguing cosmic conundrum. They are huge spikes of radio waves that appear in radio telescope observations ... may indicate that there are environmental conditions (e.g. the ...

There are many huge telescopes around the world peering up at the night sky, and now another massive project is being constructed. It will be the world's largest radio observatory, comprised of ...