Radio telescopes have long scanned quiet patches of sky for a lone, artificial-sounding ping, but a growing body of research is pushing astronomers to look instead at the loudest neighborhoods in the ...

What does it take to detect a radio signal sent by extraterrestrial life to Earth? Two decades of work involving radio telescopes stationed on opposite sides of the world, a supercomputer in Germany, ...

Scientists have detected a powerful radio signal originating from a galaxy 8 billion light-years away, marking a significant milestone in our understanding of the universe. This discovery not only ...

Very-long baseline interferometry (VLBI) is a technique in radio astronomy whereby multiple radio telescopes cooperate to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ASKAP radio telescope in Western Australia picked up a powerful radio signal from a NASA satellite that stopped working in ...

The Allen Telescope Array, Hat Creek Radio Observatory. Credit: Alexander Pollak. Radio interferometry is a technique in radio astronomy where signals from two or more radio telescopes are combined to ...

Astronomers have captured the first radio waves ever detected from a rare class of exploding star, a discovery that has given them an unprecedented look into the final years of a massive star before ...

(CNN) — 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 ...