The Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn has left its mark on the terrestrial landscape: a gigantic white dish that towers into the sky near Effelsberg in the Eifel hills – the 100-metre ...

The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is the first radio telescope to be designed from the ground up to be used for SETI searches.Until its construction, all radio SETI efforts were dependent on the ...

Astronomers are now confident the Event Horizon Telescope can help them decode elusive origins of black hole jets.

At extremely high densities, quarks are expected to form pairs, a phenomenon called color superconductivity. The strength of ...

But to push the boundaries of astronomy while planted solidly on the ground, Earth-bound observatories tend to be among the most extreme scientific facilities on the planet. This radio astronomy ...

a planet-sized array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration — is up to the task. In 2017, the team first used EHT telescopes to peer at the dust ...

4. Palomar Observatory (California, U.S.A.) Most powerful, ground-based telescopes observe at radio wavelengths. Radio waves permeate the Earth’s atmosphere far more easily than more energetic ...

Innew research, we have for the first time tracked a fast radio burst back to its source: a common kind of lightweight star called a red dwarf.