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Language in the Cosmos II: Hello There GJ273b

5 Jun , 2018 by Paul Patton

The ‘Language in the Cosmos’ symposium Three times in October, 2017 researchers turned a powerful radar telescope near Tromsø, Norway towards an invisibly faint star in the constellation Canis Minor (the small dog) and beamed a coded message into space in an attempt to signal an alien civilization. This new attempt to find other intelligent […]

If We Receive a Message From Aliens, Should We Delete it Without Reading it?

12 Feb , 2018 by Matt Williams

A new study considers how messages from extra-terrestrial civilizations could pose an existential threat, and what humanity should do about it.

The FUGIN project used the 45 meter Nobeyama radio telescope in Japan to produce the most detailed radio wave map yet of the Milky Way. Image: NAOJ/NASA/JPL-Caltech

The Most Detailed Map Ever Made of the Milky Way in Radio Waves

29 Jan , 2018 by Evan Gough

A new radio wave map of the Milky Way Galaxy is our most detailed yet and will be the basis for further study of the Milky Way for years to come.

Astronomers Start Mapping the Structure of the Far Side of the Milky Way

27 Oct , 2017 by Matt Williams

Thanks to a new study by an international team of astronomers, we now have the tools we need to map the far side of our galaxy.

New Study Says a Fast Radio Burst Happens Every Second in the Universe

21 Sep , 2017 by Matt Williams

A new study by a team of researchers from the CfA argues that a Fast Radio Burst happens with every passing second in the observable Universe

Strange Radio Signals Detected from a Nearby Star

18 Jul , 2017 by Matt Williams

A recent survey conducted by the Arecibo Observatory detected a strange radio signal coming from Ross 128, a star system just 11 light-year from Earth.

The Sun Probably Lost a Binary Twin Billions of Years Ago

14 Jun , 2017 by Matt Williams

According to a new study by a research team from UC Berkeley and Harvard, our Sun may have had a binary twin that it lost billions of years ago.

The WOW Signal Probably Didn’t Come from Aliens, or Comets as You Recently Heard

13 Jun , 2017 by Matt Williams

A new study has indicated that the famous Wow! signal may have been caused by a comet, though not all are convinced with its findings

Illustration of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF

Black Hole Imaged For First Time By Event Horizon Telescope

15 Apr , 2017 by Matt Williams

Thanks to an international effort and multiple radio telescopes, astronomers have visualized an event horizon for the first time.

Are Fast Radio Bursts Evidence Of Alien Activity?

9 Mar , 2017 by Evan Gough

Could Fast Radio Bursts from distant sources be artifacts of an alien propulsion system?

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