A team of astronomers in Australia searching for radio flashes from distant galaxies has found something a lot closer to home. The defunct communications satellite Relay 2, out of commission since ...
A comet from another star system is sweeping through our cosmic backyard and, for the first time, astronomers have picked up ...
Observations by the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope reveal that Starlink’s second-generation (V2-mini) satellites emit significantly elevated levels of unintended electromagnetic radiation ...
While SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are enabling internet access and cell phone communications around the globe, they’re also posing a threat to radio astronomy, a new study suggests. In some ...
Astronomers in Australia picked up a strange radio signal in mid-June — one near our planet and so powerful that, for a moment, it outshined everything else in the sky. The ensuing search for its ...
Could a century-old military communication method be quietly protecting our planet from deadly space radiation? NASA’s Van Allen Probes, launched in 2012 to study Earth’s radiation belts, stumbled ...
Some of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are leaking radio waves that could interfere with astronomy 1. In the last few years, astronomers have warned about light pollution and other unintended ...