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 its ...

A team of astronomers in Australia searching for radio flashes from distant galaxies has found something a lot closer to home. The defunct communications satellite Relay 2, out of commission since ...

A scientific paper was recently published on Cornell University's arXiv describing a radio burst that lasted for a mere 30 nanoseconds. Maybe that doesn't sound too exciting, except that the signal ...