Forget the headphones you saw in the Warner Brothers thriller Contact, as well as the guttural throbs emanating from loudspeakers at the Very Large Array in that 1997 movie.

Dr Christopher Carilli, a National Radio Astronomy Observatory astronomer in Socorro, New Mexico, has been chosen to receive the prestigious Max Planck Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Max Planck Society in Germany.

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Very Long Baseline Array radio telescope have tracked the motion of a violent region where the powerful winds of two giant stars slam into each other.

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array radio telescope are taking advantage of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to watch an old star suddenly stir back into new activity after coming to the end of its normal life.

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Very Long Baseline Array have measured the motion across the sky of a galaxy nearly two and a half million light-years from Earth.

Astronomers at Sweet Briar College and the Naval Research Laboratory have detected a powerful new bursting radio source whose unique properties suggest the discovery of a new class of astronomical objects.