Radio Astronomy

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…

2 weeks ago

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…

2 weeks ago

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…

3 weeks ago

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…

1 month ago

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…

1 month ago

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…

2 months ago

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…

3 months ago

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…

3 months ago

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…

4 months ago

The World's Largest Radio Telescope Just Scanned 33 Exoplanets for a Signal From Aliens

Using China's FAST telescope and a new technique, an international team of astronomers scanned 33 exoplanets for signs of extraterrestrial…

4 months ago