NASA awards funds to study deep-space interferometer and other far-out ideas A proposal to build a far-flung set of radio antennas to measure the cosmos is one of 13 far-out concepts… Read More
Radio astronomers are looking to the future as satellite mega-constellations light up the sky There are plenty of astronomers who worry that the thousands of satellites that are being launched into low Earth orbit… Read More
SETI and other alien-hunting strategies are dealing with new tools — and new troubles The search for extraterrestrial intelligence, better known as SETI, is taking advantage of a widening array of strategies — ranging… Read More
Scientists unveil Event Horizon Telescope’s first image of a galaxy’s monster black hole WASHINGTON, D.C. — Scientists today shared the first picture to show the immediate surroundings of a galaxy’s supermassive black hole,… Read More
Canadian radio telescope takes the search for puzzling fast radio bursts into a new era A new radio telescope in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley has detected 13 new sources of mysterious extragalactic phenomena known as… Read More
44 years after its first message to aliens, Arecibo Observatory calls for follow-up The Arecibo Observatory today kicked off a student-focused competition to design a new message to beam to extraterrestrials, 44 years… Read More
University of Central Florida is taking charge of gigantic Arecibo radio telescope The 1,000-foot Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, made famous by such movies as “Contact” and the James Bond thriller… Read More
Astronomers now think they know what that ‘weird’ radio signal from space was A week ago, astronomers using the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico were intrigued about a radio signal they picked… Read More
Seemingly strange radio signals from a red dwarf star spark interest at Arecibo The 1,000-foot-wide radio telescope at Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory will take a closer look at a red dwarf star known… Read More
Still no aliens in the SETI quest: Lessons learned from that strange radio signal Fifteen months after an intriguing radio signal was picked up from a sunlike star in the constellation Hercules, follow-up observations… Read More
