An upgrade to one of Australia's most capable radio telescopes is allowing astronomers to hunt for fast radio bursts (FRBs) ...

Astronomers tracking mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs) stumbled upon an unexpected cosmic puzzle. A burst was detected from ...

Last summer, astronomer Calvin Leung was excited to analyze data from a newly built radio telescope. His goal was to pinpoint ...

Project Phoenix’ was initiated by small research organisation known as the SETI Institute. But it was lucky to get off the ...

Definition: Radio astronomy is a subfield of astronomy that studies celestial objects at radio frequencies. The initial detection of radio waves from the astronomical object was created in the 1930s ...

When astronomers detected the first long-predicted gravitational waves in 2015, it opened a whole new window into the ...

Abstract: Large deployable antennas with a mesh surface woven by fine metal wires are an important technology for communications satellites and space radio telescopes. However, it is difficult to make ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

In this series, we cover provocative questions in astronomy. This week: the mysterious extragalactic signals known as Fast ...

In the more than 60 years in which scientists have engaged in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), several ...

The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more ...