The MeerKAT telescope is located in the Karoo region of South Africa, is made up of 64 radio dishes and is operated and managed by the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory. It’s a precursor to ...
Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal monster black holes in the early universe that seem to have grown too ...
Yale astronomers have announced the discovery of a galaxy with nine concentric rings—the most rings ever seen in a single ...
"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University of Amsterdam in a statement. This orbital period places it a little closer ...
Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...
A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the night sky last month.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to revolutionize our understanding of the cosmos by detecting millions of exploding stars — Type Ia supernovae — over the next decade. These brilliant explosions ...