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Scientists say that the construction of a vast new radio telescope array in the Utah desert — known as the Deep Synoptic ...
A NASA satellite that’s been orbiting as space junk since 1967, Relay 2, emitted an unexpected, powerful radio burst that ...
A powerful and mysterious blast of radio waves that astronomers believed was a fast radio burst (FRB) from far beyond the ...
The ALMA radio telescope array in the Atacama Desert temporarily halted operations after a rare snowfall blanketed the base ...
Our ability to study faint radio signals from when the first stars began to form is being threatened by SpaceX's Starlink ...
Tributes have been paid to a "towering figure in British astronomy" who has died aged 102. Sir Francis Graham-Smith was ...
Radio telescopes saw a strange burst of unknown energy in June 2024. Now we know it was from Relay 2, an early telecommunications satellite.
A study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics by a researcher from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese ...
Starlink already dims its spacecraft in visible light by tipping solar panels away from Sun reflections. A similar hardware tweak, better shielding around onboard avionics, could muffle stray radio ...
Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to light with the formation of the first stars and galaxies is a ...
Astronomers have finally deciphered the mystery of a peculiar bright burst in space, initially spotted using a large radio ...
Although most of these radio signals emanate from deep space and are not thought to be technological in origin, the burst of ...