A mysterious and powerful burst of radio waves reached Earth after traveling through space for 8 billion years dubbed FRB ...

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NASA’s two-for-one launch of its newest space telescope, SPHEREx — designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way — alongside a sun-focused mission called PUNCH is facing ...

Radio astronomers see what the naked eye can't. As we study the sky with telescopes that record radio signals rather than light, we end up seeing a lot of circles. The newest generation of radio ...

An illustration of a magnetar's magnetic field lines causing energy to flow away from the object itself. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) ...

A recent study utilizing the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) has confirmed the "radio-quiet" characteristics of four magnetars and one magnetar-like pulsar.

Radio astronomers see what the naked eye can't. As we study the sky with telescopes that record radio signals rather than light, we end up seeing a lot of circles. The newest generation of radio ...

What are you, SIMP 0136? Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to peer into this object flying by itself through our Milky Way galaxy. It's rapidly spinning, and at some 13 ...

Thanks to the burgeoning field of radio astronomy, which wields massive antennas on telescopes to collect and send radio waves to and from space, we made our first attempts to communicate with ...

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Fast radio bursts are an intriguing cosmic conundrum. They are huge spikes of radio waves that appear in radio telescope observations, lasting just milliseconds, but discharging in that time as much ...

Menon’s solution is focused on larger-scale lenses used in telescopes and astrophotography, ensuring flat lenses can match the color preservation and light-focusing capabilities of curved ones. By ...