When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) is currently in the planning phase but could soon become ...
For 10 months, a SETI Institute-led team watched pulsar PSR J0332+5434 (also called B0329+54) to study how its radio signal ...
When Cornell built the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico more than 60 years ago, it was the world's largest. Now, ...
Astronomers have spotted the brightest fast radio burst yet coming from a nearby galaxy. Observations of this phenomenon, a powerful flash of radio waves that lasts only about a millisecond, could ...
The 230-foot antenna dish, located in Crimea, was among the largest in the world. Scientists even figured out where it came from, thanks to a new telescope array. If intelligent life exists beyond ...
For decades, astronomers have mapped the Milky Way using visible light, but much of our galaxy has remained hidden behind ...
With their extremely strong magnetic fields, magnetars have long been considered the prime culprit capable of producing the powerful bursts of energy known as fast radio bursts. The recent burst, ...
The secret Cold War role played by a giant radio telescope in the middle of the Cheshire countryside has been revealed. Jodrell Bank Observatory monitored Soviet missiles as nuclear tensions between ...