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Every broadcast Earth has sent into deep space
Thursday, May 21, 2026 by Ben Conway
Right now, at this exact moment, an invisible sphere of human noise is expanding outward from Earth at the speed of light. Inside that growing shell are fragments of nearly everything modern civilization has ever broadcast into the air. Old television stations. Cold War radar sweeps. Military tra...
Supernova light echo captured by Hubble
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 by Richard Harris
It’s not every day that a telescope 340 miles above Earth drops a view that feels more like science fiction than astrophysics, but when Hubble turned its attention toward a stellar explosion that happened ten million years ago, it gave the world something close to time travel. Not the shiny, w...
Dwingeloo telescope captures signals from Voyager 1
Wednesday, December 25, 2024 by Richard Harris
The Dwingeloo Radio Telescope, a historic facility in the Netherlands, has successfully detected faint signals from NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft. This achievement underscores the vital role amateur astronomers and specialized equipment can play in supporting space missions during unexpected tec...
NASA Fermi telescope finds BOAT gamma-ray burst
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 by Richard Harris
In October 2022, astronomers were stunned by what was quickly dubbed the BOAT - the brightest-of-all-time gamma-ray burst (GRB). Now an international science team reports that data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope reveals a feature never seen before. "A few minutes afte...