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.

Targeting star systems identified by Kepler Space Telescope (especially those in habitable-zone candidate planets). Surveying a region near the Milky Way’s Galactic Center (where stellar density is ...

Construction has begun on a new telescope designed to map one of the universe’s ...

Artist’s illustration of extensive air showers induced by ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. Credit: Toshihiro Fujii/L-INSIGHT/Kyoto University Cosmic rays are highly energetic subatomic particles ...

The SETI Institute said this week that the Very Large Array, a National Science Foundation telescope in New Mexico, will join the hunt for radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations. These ...

ATLANTA — Scientists from around the world will have new opportunities to study the stars thanks to a newly installed mobile telescope at Georgia State’s Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy, ...

The Telescope Array has detected the second-highest-energy cosmic ray ever observed, marking a significant milestone in astrophysics. This groundbreaking discovery follows the famed Oh-My-God particle ...

The radio source belongs to a new class of celestial entities, called long-period radio transients.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

That means if aliens were to exist, and they were located some 66 million light-years from Earth, they’d theoretically still be able to see dinosaurs roaming the surface of our planet, since that’s ...