The CSIRO’s 64-meter (210-foot) Parkes Radio Telescope was commissioned on October 31, 1961. At the time it was the most advanced radio telescope in the…
A team of astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has detected chiral molecules in interstellar space. Life on Earth is based on chiral molecules….
An international team of astronomers used a combination of radio and optical telescopes to identify the precise location of a fast radio burst (FRB) in…
After monitoring 24 pulsars with the Parkes Radio Telescope for 11 years, new research casts doubt on our understanding of galaxies and black holes. For…