Instead of finding the radio burst in a region of young stars, researchers traced its origin to the outskirts of a “dead” ...

Fast radio bursts are mysterious and brief flashes of radio emissions that were thought to be produced by magnetars, highly ...

The 500-Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST, will allow China to detect radio signals from more than 1,000 light-years away. Officials say this is humankind's best chance of finding ...

Protesters are gathering at Hawaii’s Mauna Kea in a final attempt to stop a giant telescope Mauna Kea, the state's tallest mountain, is slated to be the base for a massive telescope that would ...

An curved arrow pointing right. 2,029 families and 9,110 people are being moved to install FAST: the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope. The telescope is being installed in Guizhou ...

For the first time, astronomers have traced a fast radio burst (FRB) to the outskirts of an ancient, dead, elliptical ...

The Chinese are ready to open up a new radio telescope called FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope). As the name implies, it is 500 meters in diameter which is about 1,600 ...

received a $1 million grant in September 2021 from the National Science Foundation to construct a telescope that can pinpoint supernovae and other astronomical events within two-seconds of detection ...