The BlackGEM array, consisting of three new telescopes at the European Southern Observatory’s La Silla Observatory in Chile, has begun operations. This photograph shows the three open domes of the ...

Scientists from the Telescope Array Collaboration have detected an ultrahigh-energy cosmic ray, a discovery that’s challenging our current understanding of exotic cosmic phenomena and their origins.

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

The Very Large Array will look for artificially produced radio signals. Image: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF; Hubble Legacy Archive, ESA, NASA The SETI Institute said this week that the Very Large Array, ...

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 ...

Artist’s illustration of the extremely energetic cosmic ray observed by a surface detector array of the Telescope Array experiment, named “Amaterasu particle.” In 1991, the University of Utah Fly’s ...

On 15 December, the Large-Sized Telescope (LST) Collaboration announced through an Astronomer's Telegram (ATel) the detection of the source OP 313 at very high energies with the LST-1. Although OP 313 ...

Astronomers have switched on 42 radio dishes of a telescope array in Northern California. A total of 350 dishes are planned for the Allen Telescope Array, which will allow astronomers to image large ...

Scientists are seeking answers to a new outer space mystery after a telescope in Utah detected the most powerful cosmic ray seen in more than three decades, according to the authors of new research ...

China is planning to launch a telescope array that will orbit the moon to get more information about the lunar surface. The proposal made by the Chinese National Space Agency (CNSA) was to send a ...

The BlackGEM array will search in visible light for mergers of black holes and neutron stars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A ...