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

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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 ...

Bright flashes of enigmatic radio waves have helped illuminate some of the missing matter in the universe, astronomers say in a new study.

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like the enormous new Vera Rubin Observatory. Here's what it could reveal ...

The colossal black hole lurking at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning almost as fast as its maximum rotation rate ...

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 ...