Using emerging radio techniques refined during and after the Second World War, the astronomers detected a powerful radio ...
It catches very low frequency radio waves made by lightning, solar storms and charged particles moving through Earth’s ...
The findings of a new study may help "explain some of the radio silence we’ve seen in technosignature searches" for alien signals, an astronomer said.
Near the center of the Milky Way, a naturally occurring sugar was found floating through a cloud of gas and dust, giving ...
The space between stars just got a little sweeter. Astronomers have detected a type of sugar in space that’s also found in ...
Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously large black holes” might be used by alien civilisations, and what makes the ...
In July 2025, astronomers spotted something remarkable passing through our Solar System, an object that had not come from anywhere nearby. Called 3I/ATLAS, it was travelling so fast and on such an ...
Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...
Eventually, we'll launch a mission dedicated solely to studying an interstellar object. When that day comes, which one should ...
On a clear night, the sky may seem peaceful and empty. Yet beyond the stars visible to our eyes lies a universe so vast that it is difficult to imagine. Our gal ...
Since the 1960s, scientists working with SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) have been monitoring the universe ...