Radio Astronomy
Star Birth and Death Seen Near the Beginning of Time
Until recently, astronomers could not observe the first stars and galaxies that formed in the Universe. This occurred during what…
An Astronomical First! A Radiation Belt Seen Outside the Solar System
For the first time, a team of astronomers has imaged the radiation belt of an object from beyond the Solar…
Astronomers Want to Build the Next Generation Arecibo Telescope
When the Arecibo Telescope collapsed in 2020, astronomers lost one of the world's most powerful radio telescopes. A team of…
NASA Uses Powerful Transmitters to Talk to Deep Space Spacecraft. Will Other Civilizations Receive Those Signals?
In a recent study submitted to the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, a pair of researchers from…
Aliens Could Map Earth From its Mobile Phone Towers
Mobile phones are so ubiquitous that we typically don't think about how they work. They just do, much to our…
Three Fast Radio Bursts Punched Right Through a Nearby Galaxy
Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are cosmic mysteries that are slowly but surely revealing their secrets. These bright flashes of light…
Machine Learning Finds 140,000 Future Star Forming Regions in the Milky Way
Our galaxy is still actively making stars. We've known that for a while, but sometimes it's hard to understand the…
Humanity has Never Seen the sky in the Longest Wavelengths. That Could Change With a new Space Telescope
Technological revolutions can bring about dramatic changes in various fields, some of which are only tangentially related to the field…
A 500-Meter-Long Asteroid Flew Past Earth, and Astronomers Were Watching
An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building flew past Earth in early February, coming within 1.8 million km…
More Data and Machine Learning has Kicked SETI Into High Gear
An international team of SETI researchers used a new algorithm to look for technosignatures in GBT data. They found 8…