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NASA has made the first radio telescope observations on the moon
The Odysseus spacecraft made a rough landing on the moon last year, toppling over and rendering much of its equipment ...
Less than 1% of the world’s biggest radio telescope is complete – but its first image reveals a sky dotted with ancient galaxies
The SKA-Low radio telescope in Western Australia is slowly coming online. It will probe the shape of the universe and study ...
A terrifying fate may lurk inside the Milky Way
The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...
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China plans moon telescope on far side with 7,200 antennas to explore early universe
The South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that the proposed lunar radio telescope array would feature 7,200 ...
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Mysterious radio pulses from the Milky Way ‘are unlike anything we knew before’
To solve the Milky Way mystery, de Ruiter devised a method to identify radio pulses lasting seconds to minutes within the archives of the Low-Frequency Array telescope, or LOFAR, a network of ...
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Astronomers crack the case of a mysterious deep space radio signal that repeats every 2 hours
LOFAR is the largest radio telescope operating at the lowest frequencies that can be detected from Earth. The pulse first appeared in LOFAR data in 2015, and after finding its first instance ...
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Humanity May Find Clues of Alien Life in the Next 20 Years, Scientist Says—And That Will ‘Change Everything’
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 ...