Radio telescopes are one of the more high-profile pieces of scientific apparatus. There is an excitement to stories of radio astronomers of old probing the mysteries of the Universe on winter ...

Below, see some of the giant optical and radio telescopes now under development ... the universe was just a few hundred million years old. The SKA will have 30 times the sensitivity of today's ...

Telescopes worldwide have captured a colossal radio jet emanating from a quasar that likely formed around 1 billion years ago. The quasar powering this jet was discovered just a few years ago and ...

Telescopes capture billion-year-old monster radio wave slicing through space NASA expert predicts what world would do if aliens made contact with Earth Facilities in Australia and South Africa ...

Less than one per cent of Australia's SKA-Low telescope is complete – but its first image reveals a sky dotted with ...

Thanks to the burgeoning field of radio astronomy, which wields massive antennas on telescopes to collect and send radio waves to and from space, we made our first attempts to communicate with ...