A routine check for deep space anomalies turned into a rare find much closer to home.

The ALMA radio telescope array in the Atacama Desert temporarily halted operations after a rare snowfall blanketed the base ...

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

Texas astronomers are part of the effort to construct the Giant Magellan Telescope – an effort that will bring a new level of ...

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

In the vast expanse of space, mysterious phenomena often leave even the most seasoned astronomers scratching their heads. One ...

Radio telescopes saw a strange burst of unknown energy in June 2024. Now we know it was from Relay 2, an early ...

How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a ...

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

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

Guided by fast radio bursts, astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics have mapped how ordinary matter is distributed in the ...

Everything seemed to indicate that it was a phenomenon from deep space. An ultra-fast radio signal, detected in Australia, had all the hallmarks of a fast radio burst—those enigmatic flashes ...