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THE VITAL AUSTRALIAN LINK ABOUT TO BE INSTALLED ON THE WORLD'S BIGGEST TELESCOPE
The 19-beam receiver -- the largest yet built -- is undergoing final testing before installation at the 500-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope FAST in southern Guizhou province... READ MORE›
SCIENTISTS WITNESS HUGE COSMIC CRASH, FIND ORIGINS OF GOLD
But black holes let no light escape, so astronomers could see nothing... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIAN SCIENTISTS FIRST TO CONFIRM RADIO SIGNALS FROM TWO COLLIDING STARS
Gravitational waves Australian scientists first to confirm radio signals from two colliding stars... READ MORE›
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KIC 8462852 STAR ANOMALY GETS ET EXPERTS' ATTENTION
Users on the online astronomy crowdsourcing interface Planet Hunters discovered a peculiar light pattern between the Cygnus and Lyra constellations a few years ago... READ MORE›
REALLY, REALLY BIG BLACK HOLE DETECTED
Researchers say it could be that the black hole just grew much faster than the galaxy surrounding it, or maybe the galaxy's growth was prematurely stopped... READ MORE›
CHINA'S GREAT SPACE TELESCOPE TO BEGIN OPERATIONS
FAST is expected to place China as the global leader in deep space radio telescope research for 10 or 20 years... READ MORE›
PROFESSOR BRIAN COX HITS BACK AT ASTROLOGY-BELIEVING TORY MP DAVID TREDINNICK
Within the interview, the MP named the prominent physicist, saying, People such as Professor Brian Cox, who called astrology 'rubbish' have simply not studied the subject... READ MORE›
CHINA PUTS FINAL TOUCHES TO WORLD'S LARGEST TELESCOPE
China has put the final piece of what is set to be the world's largest radio telescope in place, state media have reported... READ MORE›
CHINA FITS FINAL PIECE ON WORLD'S LARGEST RADIO TELESCOPE
China has fitted the final piece on what will be the world's largest radio telescope, due to begin operations in September, state media report... READ MORE›
CHINA PUTS FINISHING TOUCHES TO WORLD'S BIGGEST RADIO TELESCOPE
Five Hundred Metre Aperture Spherical Telescope, or Fast, is the size of 30 football fields and has been cut out of a mountain in Guizhou... READ MORE›
INDIA TO LAUNCH COUNTRY'S FIRST SPACE OBSERVATORY
The new observatory dubbed the AstroSat is due to be launched from the country's main space centre at Sriharikota in southern India on Monday... READ MORE›
WORLDS LARGEST RADIO TELESCOPE COMPLETED IN CHINA
The world's largest radio telescope will be completed in China and start operation on Sunday, according to state broadcaster CCTV... READ MORE›
CHINA BEGINS OPERATING WORLD'S LARGEST RADIO TELESCOPE
China boots up its massive 'Eye of Heaven,' world's largest radio telescope... READ MORE›
CHINA MAKING WORLD'S LARGEST RADIO TELESCOPE, COULD EXPAND SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE
The world's largest radio telescope, under construction in China, will be completed in 2016... READ MORE›
STEPHEN HAWKING BACKS SEARCH FOR ALIEN LIFE, LAUNCHES $100 MILLION 'BREAKTHROUGH' INITIATIVE
Milner, who founded both schemes, said With Breakthrough Listen, we're committed to bringing the Silicon Valley approach to the search for intelligent life in the Universe... READ MORE›
ALIEN HUNTERS INTRIGUED BY MYSTERIOUS RADIO SIGNALS RECORDED IN AUSTRALIA
Mysterious signals, dubbed Fast Radio Bursts FRB, have prompted experts to revisit the belief that aliens are trying to contact us... READ MORE›
ARIZONA SKY VILLAGE'S RESIDENTS HAVE ONE RULE
In Arizona, light pollution is a very serious concern, says astronomer Dr Lori Allen, director of the Kitt Peak national observatory, some 56 miles west of Tucson... READ MORE›
15-YEAR-OLD CAPTURES SATURN USING IPHONE APP AND TELESCOPE IN HIS BACK GARDEN
Marcus Reed took the impressive image using an iPhone app, SkyGuide, and a 102mm diameter reflector telescope... READ MORE›
CHINA COMPLETES WORLD'S LARGEST RADIO DISH TO LET SCIENTISTS HUNT FOR BLACK HOLES AND E.T.
For the world's largest radio telescope of its kind, completed in China on Sunday, the price tag was astronomical the equivalent of about 180 million... READ MORE›
CHINA BEGINS OPERATING WORLD'S LARGEST RADIO TELESCOPE
The radio telescope has double the sensitivity of the Arecibo Observatory, and five to 10 times the surveying speed, Xinhua said... READ MORE›
CSIRO TECHNOLOGY TO BE AT THE HEART OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST RADIO TELESCOPE IN CHINA
CSIRO technology to be at the heart of the world's largest radio telescope in China... READ MORE›
BRITISH STUDENT WHO WANTED TO HAVE 'ALIEN BABY' PULLS OUT OF MARS ONE MISSION
A woman who wanted to be the first person to have a Martian baby has pulled out of the Mars One mission... READ MORE›
THIS IS WHAT THE BRIGHTEST GALAXY IN THE EARLY UNIVERSE LOOKS LIKE
While conducting a more expansive study of the skies with the help of Subaru Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers discovered CR7... READ MORE›
HUBBLE CAPTURES QUADRUPLE IMAGE OF DISTANT SUPERNOVA
By chance, the supernova, which exploded about 9 billion years ago, was aligned with the intervening galaxy cluster being used during a Hubble observation period in 2011... READ MORE›
UNIVERSE HEADED FOR AN 'ETERNAL DOZE' AS ENERGY SLOWLY FADES
It doesn't matter which wavelength you look at the universe in, it is slowing down in its energy production in the same way, Hopkins said... READ MORE›
IN PICTURES: THE BUILDING OF WORLD'S LARGEST SINGLE DISH TELESCOPE
The Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope FAST which cost 1.27bn yuan or 246m is now getting to its final stages, with completion scheduled for later this year... READ MORE›
NEW MEXICO'S GIANT VERY LARGE ARRAY TELESCOPES SCANNING SPACE FOR COSMIC DISCOVERIES
Employing an array of giant telescopes positioned in the New Mexico desert, astronomers have started a massive surveying project aimed at producing the mos... READ MORE›
ANU BREAKS WORLD STARGAZING RECORD
A national stargazing event organised by the ANU has secured two Guinness World Records for Australia... READ MORE›
ANU BREAKS WORLD STARGAZING RECORD
A national stargazing event organised by the ANU has secured two Guinness World Records for Australia... READ MORE›
CHINA EYES HUNT FOR ALIEN LIFE WITH GIANT TELESCOPE
The 1.2-billion yuan 180 million radio telescope would be a global leader for the next one to two decades, Zheng added... READ MORE›
WORLDS LARGEST RADIO TELESCOPE COMPLETED IN CHINA
The world's largest radio telescope will be completed in China and start operation on Sunday, according to state broadcaster CCTV... READ MORE›
WHY THE WORLD'S LARGEST RADIO TELECSOPE IS SUCH A BIG DEAL
FAST handsomely beats the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico into second place, with its 305-metre diameter dish... READ MORE›
PIONEERING ASTRONOMER VERA RUBIN, WHO HELPED FIND PROOF OF DARK MATTER, DIES AT 88
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY - Vera Rubin, a pioneering astronomer who helped find powerful evidence of dark matter, has died, her son said Monday... READ MORE›