Radio telescopes saw a strange burst of unknown energy in June 2024. Now we know it was from Relay 2, an early ...

Around midday on June 13 last year, my colleagues and I were scanning the skies when we thought we had discovered a strange ...

A NASA satellite that’s been orbiting as space junk since 1967, Relay 2, emitted an unexpected, powerful radio burst that ...

Astronomers in Western Australia detected a powerful radio burst, initially mistaking it for a new astronomical object or a ...

In its first year alone, it will double the amount of data collected so far by every other instrument in the history of optical astronomy ...

Guided by fast radio bursts, astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics have mapped how ordinary matter is distributed in the ...

Scientists have revealed the first images from the world's largest digital camera, the Vera C Rubin Observatory.

For decades, scientists have struggled to see the outermost layer of the Sun, called the corona, with enough detail to unlock ...

Source of the radio waves was tracked to a location that matches that of NASA’s defunct Relay 2 spacecraft, which launched in ...