Astronomers have dived into the turbulent and chaotic heart of the Milky Way, discovering hidden chemistry around our galaxy's supermassive black hole.

The CHARA Array is basically a giant, distributed eye composed of six individual telescopes scattered across the peaks of Mount Wilson, all linked together to behave like one massive 330-meter ...

October 16, 2024, Mountain View, CA - Scientists at the SETI Institute and partners from Penn State University used the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) to search for signs of alien technology in the ...

Astronomers using the MeerKAT telescope discovered a hydroxyl megamaser in a galactic merger 8 billion light-years away, amplified by gravitational lensing and operating at radio wavelengths.

ATLANTA — Georgia State University’s CHARA Array is set to receive a $1.39 million grant from the National Science Foundation to enhance its capabilities in observing stars across the visible and near ...

The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is located at the Hat Creek Observatory in the Cascade Mountains of California, approximately 300 miles to the north of San Francisco and two dozen miles north of ...

So scientists found a workaround. Instead of building one gigantic telescope, they placed smaller telescopes far apart and combined their light. If done correctly, the system behaves like a single ...

To capture higher-definition and sharper images of cosmological objects, astronomers sometimes combine the data collected by several telescopes. This approach, known as long-baseline interferometry, ...

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 ...