New Mexico’s Plains of San Agustin are otherworldly: Silence, sand and sharp plants reign on the valley floor. Knobbly volcanic rock rises above. Pronghorns’ legs and jackrabbits’ ears break up the ...
Astronomers using the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) instruments, the U.S.
May 1, 2023, Mountain View, CA – One of the world’s most powerful radio telescope arrays is joining the hunt for signals from other galactic civilizations. The National Science Foundation’s Karl G.
We now have direct images of two supermassive black holes: M87* and Sag A*. The fact that we can capture such images is ...
Isolation dictates where we go to see into the far reaches of the universe. The Atacama Desert of Chile, the summit of Mauna ...
Scientists have identified a strange cosmic relic called Cloud-9 — a starless, gas-filled object dominated by dark matter.
Radio telescopes let you study the universe by collecting faint radio waves from distant objects. To see extremely small ...
Hubble has revealed a strange cosmic object called Cloud-9, a dark matter–dominated cloud with no stars at all. Scientists believe it is a “failed galaxy,” a leftover building block from the early ...