Astronomers detected a powerful radio signal from near Earth, initially believed to be from a new space object. Check what ...

A NASA satellite that’s been orbiting as space junk since 1967, Relay 2, emitted an unexpected, powerful radio burst that ...

Everything seemed to indicate that it was a phenomenon from deep space. An ultra-fast radio signal, detected in Australia, ...

Astronomers studying a distant galaxy cluster stumbled upon ancient radio signals that might hold clues to the formation of ...

First thought to have originated from a distant cosmic object, the short and intense signal was actually coming from much ...

Around midday on June 13 last year, my colleagues and I were scanning the skies when we thought we had discovered a strange ...

A communications satellite out of commission since 1965 is chirping at the Earth in radio frequencies. What is happening? We ...

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Some theories suggest they are produced by “magnetars” – the highly magnetised cores of massive, dead stars – or arise from ...

A faint radio glow reveals a million-light-year halo enveloping one of the earliest galaxy clusters, hinting that energetic ...

A powerful radio burst detected in 2024 from within our galaxy may have come from NASAs Relay 2 satellite, launched in 1964.

Astronomers are puzzled by a strong burst of radio waves traced back to a NASA satellite that had been inactive since the ...