Radio Astronomy
China’s 500-Meter FAST Radio Telescope is Now Operational
The world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope is officially open for business according to Xinhua, China's official state-run media.…
Astronomers Are About to Detect the Light from the Very First Stars in the Universe
A team of scientists working with the Murchison Widefield Array (WMA) radio telescope are trying to find the signal from…
China’s FAST Telescope, the World’s Largest Single Radio Dish Telescope, is Now Fully Operational
After years of construction, China's new radio telescope is in action. The telescope, called FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope)…
Dead Planets Around White Dwarfs Could Emit Radio Waves We Can Detect, Sending Out Signals for Billions of Years
A new study by a pair of astronomers has shown that planets orbiting white dwarfs will still be emitting radio…
Want to Find Aliens? The Largest Dataset in the History of SETI has Been Released to the Public
Breakthrough Listen has just released their latest analysis of the past three years of their SETI research, as well as…
Astronomers are Using NASA’s Deep Space Network to Hunt for Magnetars
Right, magnetars. Perhaps one of the most ferocious beasts to inhabit the cosmos. Loud, unruly, and temperamental, they blast their…
Australian astronomers have been able to double the number of mysterious fast radio bursts discovered so far
Using the Australia Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder in western Australia, a team of researchers almost doubled the number of FRBs…
New Canadian Radio Telescope is Detecting Fast Radio Bursts
The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), a revolutionary new radio telescope, recently made its first-ever detection of a possible…
Language in the Cosmos II: Hello There GJ273b
The ‘Language in the Cosmos’ symposium Three times in October, 2017 researchers turned a powerful radar telescope near Tromsø, Norway…
If We Receive a Message From Aliens, Should We Delete it Without Reading it?
A new study considers how messages from extra-terrestrial civilizations could pose an existential threat, and what humanity should do about…