CAPE TOWN, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Square Kilometer Array Observatory (SKAO) announced on Wednesday that the growing SKA-Mid telescope array in South Africa has achieved "first fringes" using two of ...

The discovery of 49 new galaxies in a few hours, announced earlier this year, was the latest testament to the value of South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope. Six years after its inauguration, it is finally ...

PHOENIX — Arizona is home to telescopes at Kitt Peak south of Tucson and Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff and now northern Arizona is a finalist to be home for a 40- telescope array. Meteor Crater and ...

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.

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 ...

In the next few years, we will see some incredible observatories comie online. The Vera Rubin Observatory's science campaign ...

A billionaire-backed philanthropic organization is funding the development of a series of new observatories, including a space telescope larger than Hubble.

China has put forth a proposal to construct a large radio telescope array on the far side of the moon. For the last few years, concepts have been floating around of establishing a telescope on the ...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is trying to do for astronomy what cheap cloud computing did for software, backing a space ...