China has begun expanding the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), the world’s largest and most sensitive single-dish radio telescope. The expansion plan involves constructing ...

Based on what scientists thought they knew about fast radio bursts, referred to in astronomy as FRBs, this type of galaxy should not contain the kind of star long thought to produce such bursts.

But now a second phase will add 24 new moveable radio telescopes, each with a diameter of 131 feet (40 meters). Construction officially started on Sept. 25, on the eighth anniversary of FAST's ...

Invisible radiation leaking out of private satellites, like SpaceX's Starlink spacecraft, is disrupting radio astronomers' ...

The stars in a binary can vary widely in mass, size, and brightness, and their interactions often shape their evolution in ...

Dr. Wang explained, “We were focused on finding fast radio bursts, a mysterious phenomenon that has opened up a new field of research in astronomy.” Another key advantage of CRACO is its ...

China is deepening its commitment to international scientific cooperation, guided by the principles of openness, mutual ...

NASA is advancing plans to construct a radio telescope on the Moon's far side – a location uniquely shielded from the ...