Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...

Large radio telescopes are essential tools for astronomical research, allowing scientists to observe celestial phenomena by detecting radio waves emitted from various sources in the universe.

Giant radio galaxies are cosmic megastructures that can span millions of light-years, making them some of the largest-known ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant radio galaxy with plasma jets stretching an incredible 3.3 million light-years—32 times ...

The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more ...

Astronomers have traced two mysterious fast radio bursts from space to wildly different places, which suggests the phenomenon ...

In some galaxies, large amounts of interstellar gas are spiralling around the super massive black hole and getting pulled in ...

An upgrade to one of Australia's most capable radio telescopes is allowing astronomers to hunt for fast radio bursts (FRBs) ...

Astronomers have observed over a thousand of them to date; some come from sources that repeatedly emit FRBs, while others ...

Astronomers have detected fast-repeating radio bursts from a distant "dead" galaxy that should not contain the energy to ...