radio telescope

Around midday on June 13, 2024, my colleagues and I were scanning the skies when we thought we …

In February 1995, a small research organization known as the SETI Institute launched what was then the most …

When we turn our radio telescopes out toward space, we sometimes detect sporadic bursts of radio waves originating …

When I was a child in the 1970s, seeing satellites pass overhead in the night sky was a …

Every day and night, hundreds of thousands of intense, brief flashes of radiation suddenly flicker on and then …

Astronomers have been working to better understand the galactic environments of fast radio bursts (FRBs) — intense, momentary …

In the 1997 movie Contact, Ellie Arroway is a young radio astronomy scientist played by Jodie Foster. Ellie’s on …

The Breakthrough Listen Initiative released data from the most comprehensive survey yet of radio emissions from the plane …

We’ve been staring at the stars and wondering what was up there for centuries. We’ve been using mirrors …