Remote, freezing, and wrapped in mystery, Antarctica was the last continent to be explored and remains one of the most difficult environments on Earth to access. Its landscape of endless white, broken ...

Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes to show that a very distant galaxy is undergoing an extraordinary boom of stellar construction. The galaxy is 12.7 billion ...

The South Pole Telescope, located in Antarctica, was constructed in 2006. It is the largest telescope ever positioned at the South Pole. It operates at millimeter wavelengths creating high-resolution ...

South African researchers have discovered the most distant ultra-steep-spectrum radio halo ever observed. According to a statement issued by the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO), a ...