The question “are we alone in the universe?” has fascinated people for centuries. In 1959 two Cornell University physicists described how we might answer that question through interstellar ...

When the New York Times first wrote about "mysterious radio waves" from the cosmos in 1933, they made sure to note one fundamental caveat: "No Evidence of Interstellar Signaling." Indeed ...

“When the wind hits the white dwarf’s magnetic field, it would be accelerated, producing radio waves.” She compared it to how solar winds interact with the Earth’s magnetic fields to ...

But a team of scientists has made a big stride toward this goal, a complete wiring diagram of a teeny ... talks over the new findings with Short Wave co-host Emily Kwong, and explains why we ...

Astronomers from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), in collaboration with international teams, ...

In those moments, it became the brightest source of radio waves viewable from Earth through radio telescopes, acting like a celestial lighthouse. Researchers thought the phenomenon might be a ...

The object, designated ASKAP J1832-0911, is located 15,000 light-years away and its nature is currently unknown, though it could be a highly magnetized dead star or something entirely new.

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Researchers using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope in Europe have discovered the second generation of Starlink satellites emit higher levels of radio waves that could pose a serious ...