The professor of astronomy and planetary sciences at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), who won this year’s Shaw ...

The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...

Observations from the LOFAR (Low Frequency Array) radio telescope last year revealed that the first-generation Starlink ...

Over the quarter century I’ve been writing this column, I've been flabbergasted by the advances in telescopes for backyard ...

Stellar-mass black holes can be found anywhere in a galaxy, but the really big ones (known as supermassive black holes) are ...

The Chandra X-ray Observatory is the darling of high-energy astrophysics. Famed for providing unequaled x-ray views of ...

There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of dust, it hides an unseen mass. A mass ...

Howdy, folks, and welcome back to the show! A bald eagle. There! Flying low over the traffic in Richmond on Election Day.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have created a groundbreaking technique that transforms 2D radio images into 3D ...

Fast radio bursts — powerful and poorly understood cosmic eruptions — tend to occur in massive galaxies that host long-dead ...

NASA is hoping to send humans back to the Moon in the next couple of years, but now they have announced what exactly those ...

Fifty years ago, the famed Arecibo message was fired into space to make contact with intelligent extraterrestrials. Now is ...