More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its ...

The Dwarf 3 is a genuine leap forward in user-friendly optics, opening up astronomy and nature photography to beginners ...

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 the vast expanse of space, mysterious phenomena often leave even the most seasoned astronomers scratching their heads. One ...

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 ...

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 ...

An object astronomers initially thought to be a high-speed burst of radio waves from deep space last year has been revealed ...

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