The Arecibo Observatory telescope, the largest and most sensitive single dish radio telescope in the world, is about to get a good deal more sensitive. ARECIBO, P.R.. -- The Arecibo Observatory ...

Billionaire Paul Allen is giving $13.5 million to research that includes looking for intelligent life in outer space, bringing his total donations to the project to $25 million. Allen, a co-founder of ...

It will appear in the West at sunset, from around the 8th to the 13th of March 2013, and will be visible to the naked eye up to the end of the month. Comet Pan-Starrs C/2011 L4 will traverse Cetus, ...

EADS SPACE Transportation and Astron sign a morandum of understanding Leiden — EADS SPACE Transportation and the Netherlands Foundation for Astronomy ASTRON/LOFAR signed a memorandum of understanding ...

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Astronomers using a radiotelescope to perform a survey of a broad patch of the sky have spotted a set of unusual events that last for just a handful of milliseconds. The events don’t repeat and aren’t ...

Scientists in the Netherlands have unveiled the largest radiotelescope in the world, saying it was capable of detecting faint signals from almost as far back as the Big Bang. The LOFAR (LOw Frequency ...

Montevideo, Feb 22 (EFE).Montevideo, Feb 22 (EFE). — An international scientific project is underway to build a radio telescope in Uruguay this year to map the cosmos in the intermediate stage between ...

galaxy some 140 million light-years from Earth. "This supernova is likely to be part of a group of super star clusters ...