Radio Astronomy
Want to Find Aliens? The Largest Dataset in the History of SETI has Been Released to the Public
Breakthrough Listen has just released their latest analysis of the past three years of their SETI research, as well as…
Astronomers are Using NASA’s Deep Space Network to Hunt for Magnetars
Right, magnetars. Perhaps one of the most ferocious beasts to inhabit the cosmos. Loud, unruly, and temperamental, they blast their…
Australian astronomers have been able to double the number of mysterious fast radio bursts discovered so far
Using the Australia Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder in western Australia, a team of researchers almost doubled the number of FRBs…
New Canadian Radio Telescope is Detecting Fast Radio Bursts
The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), a revolutionary new radio telescope, recently made its first-ever detection of a possible…
Language in the Cosmos II: Hello There GJ273b
The ‘Language in the Cosmos’ symposium Three times in October, 2017 researchers turned a powerful radar telescope near Tromsø, Norway…
If We Receive a Message From Aliens, Should We Delete it Without Reading it?
A new study considers how messages from extra-terrestrial civilizations could pose an existential threat, and what humanity should do about…
The Most Detailed Map Ever Made of the Milky Way in Radio Waves
A new radio wave map of the Milky Way Galaxy is our most detailed yet and will be the basis…
Astronomers Start Mapping the Structure of the Far Side of the Milky Way
Thanks to a new study by an international team of astronomers, we now have the tools we need to map…
New Study Says a Fast Radio Burst Happens Every Second in the Universe
A new study by a team of researchers from the CfA argues that a Fast Radio Burst happens with every…
Strange Radio Signals Detected from a Nearby Star
A recent survey conducted by the Arecibo Observatory detected a strange radio signal coming from Ross 128, a star system…