China’s FAST telescope is the largest and most sensitive radio observatory ever built, capable of detecting signals other instruments could never hear. This video explores how it was engineered, what ...

World-renowned astrophysicist Prof Duncan Lorimer, who led the discovery of the first Fast Radio Burst (FRB) as among the ...

Astronomers have discovered that some repeating fast radio bursts come from binary star systems, not lone stars. FRB 220529A’s unusual signal reveals how magnetars and plasma flares create cosmic ...

Follow-up observations with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) and new data from Parkes and the Green ...

Light is the fastest phenomenon in the universe, clocking in at just under 300,000 kilometers per second. The telescopes that observe that light, from radio waves to gamma rays, are built at rather ...

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India, Feb. 1 -- An international team of astronomers, including researcherfrom the Department of Physics at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), has uncovered the first decisive evidence that at least ...

Dark matter is a type of matter that is predicted to make up most of the matter in the universe, yet it is very difficult to ...

Astronomers using W.M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea have uncovered the largest and most extended stream of super-heated gas ever observed flowing from a nearby galaxy, providing the clearest evidence ...

A "crowdsourced" project in which home computer users were enlisted to help analyze radio signals from space is ending after ...