For radio astronomy, things get even better during the lunar night, when the sun drops beneath the horizon and is blocked by the moon’s mass. For up to 14 Earth-days at a time, a spot on the moon’s ...

Simulated distributions of cold and warm dark matter are shown using particles color-coded by temperature, accompanied by an illustration of lunar telescopes. Tsukuba, Japan—The Universe was born 13.8 ...

After Arecibo collapsed, radio astronomers faced a choice: rebuild the past, or build something radical. One bold idea is the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope—using a 3–5 km crater to hold a 1 km ...

We now have direct images of two supermassive black holes: M87* and Sag A*. The fact that we can capture such images is remarkable, but they might be the only black holes we can observe. That is, ...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KRQE) – A student at New Mexico State University is showing how you can use pretty much anything to create something. Saul Hernandez made a radio telescope that can detect the ...

When you think of a radio telescope, you usually think of a giant dish antenna pointing skyward. But [vhuvanmakes] built Wavy-Scope, a handheld radio telescope that can find the Sun and the Moon, ...

The world’s biggest and most iconic radio telescopes are joining forces with a bold aim – to make new images of black holes and their surroundings, in detail and in new colours. In Sweden, Chalmers ...

Using the MeerKAT telescope, astronomers have discovered a new odd radio circle that appears to be associated with an elliptical galaxy known as WISEA J021912.43–050501.8. The finding, which could ...