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A communications satellite out of commission since 1965 is chirping at the Earth in radio frequencies. What is happening? We ...

Astronomers have finally deciphered the mystery of a peculiar bright burst in space, initially spotted using a large radio ...

Guided by fast radio bursts, astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics have mapped how ordinary matter is distributed in the ...

A NASA satellite that’s been orbiting as space junk since 1967, Relay 2, emitted an unexpected, powerful radio burst that ...

Scientists say that the construction of a vast new radio telescope array in the Utah desert — known as the Deep Synoptic ...

A fast radio burst (FRB) was detected coming from a satellite that had been decommissioned in the late 1960s after its ...

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

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Astronomers detected a powerful radio signal from near Earth, initially believed to be from a new space object. Check what ...

Source of the radio waves was tracked to a location that matches that of NASA’s defunct Relay 2 spacecraft, which launched in 1964 from Cape Canaveral ...