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

Satellites that retire are deorbited into a graveyard orbit within 25 years of their missions ending. This is the case with ...

Satellite footage has revealed that giant mega-tsunamis were the cause of seismic vibrations that rocked the planet for nine days, per a "Nature Communications" study making waves online.

Astronomers have finally solved a year-long mystery that had them baffled after discovering a mysterious signal. Australian ...

A relic from the dawn of the space age has suddenly—and unexpectedly—sprung back to life, catching the global scientific ...

A powerful and mysterious blast of radio waves that astronomers believed was a fast radio burst (FRB) from far beyond the ...

As fascinating as bizarre signals from other planets can be—teaching us about earthquakes on Mars or auroras in the skies of Jupiter —sometimes even weirder signals come from weather extremes ...

The study went on to note that a cause for the pulse could have been that it was struck by a small piece of space rock, known ...

Astronomers have finally deciphered the mystery of a peculiar bright burst in space, initially spotted using a large radio ...

As to why Relay-2 suddenly emitted this signal, that’s a mystery. The scientists behind the detection believe that the satellite may have built up electricity over the years and then suddenly ...

Source of the radio waves was tracked to a location that matches that of NASA’s defunct Relay 2 spacecraft, which launched in ...