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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LOFAR is a massive radio telescope that comprises 100,000 antennas spread across eight European countries. The researchers ...

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

A NASA satellite that had been inactive for almost sixty years surprised astronomers by sending a signal in June 2024.

LOFAR detects a faint radio 'mini-halo' from 3.8 billion years ago, revealing how galaxy clusters evolved in the early ...