A giant single-dish telescope enters testing

The publication examines how celestial motion, songlines and landscape knowledge support travel and orientation.

Routes can be encoded through sequences of places, stories and sky references rather than written charts.

Eclipses, meteors and other striking phenomena may be remembered through narratives that preserve observational details.

The review argues that Indigenous knowledge should be engaged respectfully in teaching rather than appended as folklore.

The 500-metre Chinese radio telescope in Guizhou took its first astronomical data.

The instrument’s great collecting area promised sensitivity to faint radio sources.

First light marked a milestone for the observatory built by Chinese scientific teams.

LIGO and Virgo detected a signal from two merging neutron stars.

The merger was also observed with electromagnetic instruments, launching a coordinated campaign.

A brief gamma-ray signal arrived shortly after the gravitational waves, linking two forms of observation.