The existence and origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs) has been a hot topic in astronomy research in recent years. Now that we are beginning to unravel this cosmic mystery, scientists know what to look ...

A scathing new report points to unclear protocols and multiple failures to raise alarms at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a feeding black hole in the early universe that seems to be ...

Using the CHIME telescope, an international team of astronomers has detected a new repeating fast radio burst (FRBs) source ...

Powerful electromagnetic radiation from an enormous radio telescope in Puerto Rico may have fast-tracked structural damage that led to the instrument's collapse in 2020, a new report says.

received a $1 million grant in September 2021 from the National Science Foundation to construct a telescope that can pinpoint supernovae and other astronomical events within two-seconds of detection ...

Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

These are big, literally cosmic questions, and astronomers continue to struggle to nail down the answers. Different ...

In 1963, the Arecibo Observatory became operational on the island of Puerto Rico. Measuring 305 meters (~1000 ft) in diameter ...

The black hole's voracious appetite, which has allowed it to pile on more than seven million solar masses in just 12 million ...

A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...

An investigation by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine found Hurricane Maria worsened a slow decay ...