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

More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its ...

Radio telescopes saw a strange burst of unknown energy in June 2024. Now we know it was from Relay 2, an early ...

A team from the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering (IOF), local spin-off company Spaceoptix, ...

We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...

Orbiting its star in an elliptical path at less than half the distance between Earth and the Sun, this exoplanet offers a ...

A powerful new telescope in Chile has released its first images ... or its graveyard of stars destroyed over time, as well as ...

An exoplanet is any planet beyond our solar system. Most of them orbit other stars, but some free-floating exoplanets, called ...

The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...

After taking a closer look, however, the team realized that the only viable source for the burst was NASA’s dead Relay 2, a ...

Learn how a deactivated satellite sends signals from beyond, not by reviving its systems, but by inadvertently setting off ...

The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about ...