New Mexico’s Plains of San Agustin are otherworldly: Silence, sand and sharp plants reign on the valley floor. Knobbly volcanic rock rises above. Pronghorns’ legs and jackrabbits’ ears break up the ...

Using the Large Phased Array (LPA) and the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), astronomers from ...

During the second day, we stopped at the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, a huge radio telescope used by scientists to study the cosmos. We had visited the facility more than a decade ago during a ...

May 1, 2023, Mountain View, CA – One of the world’s most powerful radio telescope arrays is joining the hunt for signals from other galactic civilizations. The National Science Foundation’s Karl G.

A study using the Very Large Array radio telescope may have discovered a magnetic field on exoplanet YZ Ceti b. Magnetic fields protect planets from energetic particles that can strip away atmospheres ...

It’s a well known fun fact of astronomy that if you use the right kind of telescope, Jupiter looks every bit as bright as the Sun. In this case, the right kind means not a visible-light telescope but ...

The first such instance, FRB 121102, was traced to a dwarf galaxy in 2016 using the Very Large Array radio telescope. Since then, improved technology has enabled researchers to detect more bursts and ...

These clouds of radio energy are "radio relics" resulting from powerful shockwaves surging through the hot gas that fills the space amid a galaxy cluster. Credit ...

People have been looking up at the Milky Way for thousands of years, marveling at its vastness. It was only a matter of time before they began to wonder if life similar to ours could exist on the ...

NGC 1068, a relatively nearby spiral galaxy, appears in this image released on July 23, 2025. The galaxy contains a black ...

In early July, we returned to the Southwest for a drive across New Mexico. During the second day, we stopped at the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, a huge radio telescope used by scientists to study ...

The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) is revolutionizing FRB research. This state-of-the-art radio telescope, located in Western Australia, consists of 36 antennas operating between ...