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Astronomers detected a mysterious radio burst that traveled across 10 billion light years, originating when the universe was just three billion years old. The ancient signal could unlock secrets about how our cosmos evolved.
A backyard radio telescope built for $70 proves anyone can measure the invisible force holding our galaxy together. Amateur astronomers are now confirming dark matter's existence from their own homes.
A Bell Labs engineer investigating phone static accidentally discovered that the Milky Way emits radio waves, birthing an entirely new field of astronomy. Karl Jansky's curious pursuit of a mysterious hiss opened our eyes to an invisible universe we never knew existed.
Astronomers just completed the largest radio survey of the universe ever, revealing 13.7 million previously hidden cosmic wonders including black hole jets, colliding galaxies, and exploding stars. The breakthrough could transform our understanding of how supermassive black holes shape entire galaxies.
Scientists are racing to land a revolutionary telescope on the moon's far side while it's still quiet enough to detect signals from the universe's first 400 million years. The window for this cosmic discovery is closing fast.
A radio telescope designed to observe the universe's earliest moments will launch to the moon's far side early next year, fulfilling a scientist's four-decade dream. The groundbreaking instrument could reveal secrets from 13 billion years ago that Earth-based telescopes simply cannot detect.