Radio signals have been travelling through space since 1906, forming Earth’s radio bubble. Now 119 light years wide, it covers about 75 star systems, the signals fading into noise ...
A legendary signal from deep space, once dismissed by some as statistical noise, has just become even more mysterious.
On Dec. 19, 2025, 3I/ATLAS flew by Earth and did more than just give astronomers something to look at; it brought a piece of ...
Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...
Imagine that you’re an astronomer conducting a radio survey of the heavens. Maybe you’re searching for pulsars, or radio galaxies, or just mapping neutral hydrogen. Then, out of nowhere, you detect a ...
A group of Chinese scientists is diving deep into the cosmos in search of alien radio signals from the TRAPPIST-1 star system ...
Long before scientists discovered that other stars in the universe host their own planetary systems, humanity had ...
The first pulsar was discovered in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Finding these mysterious signals forever changed astronomy.
Mysterious Bright Flashes in the Night Sky Baffle Astronomers Celestial transients shine furiously and briefly. Astronomers ...
For the first time in the history of observations, astronomers have recorded the merger of three galaxies, each of which ...
Scientists have sought out and detected radio emissions from from interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, confirming what most ...
The comet 3I/ATLAS is taking a long holiday journey this year. It’s visiting from another solar system altogether. Those interstellar origins... What to know about the 3I/ATLAS comet and why people ...