For more than 400 years, astronomers both professional and amateur have taken a special interest in observing Mira stars, a class of variable red giants famous for pulsations that last for 80-1,000 ...

Researchers in the US have demonstrated how quantum entanglement could be used to detect optical signals from astronomical ...

Stellar intensity interferometry is a powerful observational technique that exploits second-order coherence properties of starlight to achieve extremely high angular resolution. Building on the ...

An international research team led by Dr. Cui Lang from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has imaged the compact weak radio emission region and measured the ...

Scientists and engineers working on the world’s largest ground-based astronomical project, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), have achieved another milestone — the successful ...

Researchers from the University of Arizona, University of Maryland, and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center have proposed a new method for achieving ultra-high-resolution astronomical images using ...

The ESO (European Southern Observatory) has announced the successful observation of an exoplanet using optical interferometry. It's the first time an exoplanet has been "seen" in this manner and the ...

Consider this: astronomers think of the Hubble Space Telescope as small. That might surprise you because after three decades' worth of images from Hubble with depth and detail most ground-based ...

After years of investments, African telescopes are emerging as global leaders in frontier astronomy. From South Africa’s ...

An international team of astronomers, led by Keiichi Ohnaka at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn, Germany, has taken the sharpest view yet of a dying mammoth star. The image ...