Radio Astronomy
A Repeating Fast Radio Burst Has Been Found. It Flares for 4 Days and then Remains Silent for 12 Days
Five hundred million light-years from Earth, there is a deeply unusual object. It is radio silent for 12 days, then…
Searching for the End of the Universe’s “Dark Age”
According to the most widely accepted cosmological theories, the first stars in the Universe formed a few hundred million years…
Seti@home is on Pause. Unfortunately, it’s not Because They’ve Discovered Aliens
After 20 years in operation, SETI@home program recently announced that it is taking a hiatus to sort through the mountain…
Astronomers Have Recorded the Biggest Explosion Ever Seen in the Universe
Hundreds of millions of light years away, a supermassive black hole sits in the center of a galaxy cluster named…
Detecting Exoplanets Through Their Exoauroras
A team of scientists from the Netherlands have proposed an exciting new approach for finding exoplanets: look for signs of…
A Rare Fast Radio Burst has been Found that Actually Repeats Every 16 Days
A team of scientists in Canada have found a Fast Radio Burst (FRB) that repeats every 16 days. This is…
China’s 500-Meter FAST Radio Telescope is Now Operational
The world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope is officially open for business according to Xinhua, China's official state-run media.…
Astronomers Are About to Detect the Light from the Very First Stars in the Universe
A team of scientists working with the Murchison Widefield Array (WMA) radio telescope are trying to find the signal from…
China’s FAST Telescope, the World’s Largest Single Radio Dish Telescope, is Now Fully Operational
After years of construction, China's new radio telescope is in action. The telescope, called FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope)…
Dead Planets Around White Dwarfs Could Emit Radio Waves We Can Detect, Sending Out Signals for Billions of Years
A new study by a pair of astronomers has shown that planets orbiting white dwarfs will still be emitting radio…