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An enormous radio telescope may soon be a powerful tool for planetary defense
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 10 months agolarge dish on earth sends waves out to the moon in illustration In Overmatched, we take a close look...
Astronomers used dead stars to detect a new form of ripple in space-time
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 11 months agoTwo giant black holes, in the upper left, collide and distort the bright pulsars around them in this...
Scientists detect fastest-ever fast radio bursts, lasting just 10 millionths of a second
Live Science via Yahoo News· 7 months agoArtist's impression (landscape orientation) of the discovery of microsecond bursts. The foreground...
Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence: The science behind 'Contact'
SYFY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOver a quarter-century ago, famed astrophysicist and science communicator Carl Sagan and his wife...
An Intergalactic Game of Marco Polo Could Point Us to Aliens
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 11 months agoPhoto Illustration by Kelly Caminero / The Daily Beast / GettyFor more than 60 years, scientists...
Machine learning spots 8 potential technosignatures
Space via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAn artist's depiction of the Green Bank Telescope hooked up to a machine learning system. Humans have five new leads in the search to find life beyond...
Radio interference from satellites is threatening astronomy – a proposed zone for testing new...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoRadio observatories like the Green Bank Telescope are in radio quiet zones that protect them from...
Astronomers accidentally discover 'dark' primordial galaxy with no visible stars
Space via Yahoo News· 4 months agoHydrogen gas in the primordial galaxy J0613+52 with red indicating regions turning away from Earth...
Astrophysicists report solid evidence for a background hum of gravitational waves
GeekWire via Yahoo Finance· 11 months agoAstrophysicists have found the best evidence yet for a low-frequency “hum” of gravitational waves...
Scientists have finally 'heard' the chorus of gravitational waves that ripple through the universe
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 11 months agoScientists have observed for the first time the faint ripples caused by the motion of black holes...