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Periodic radio emissions have been discovered in a binary system of white and red dwarf stars with an orbit time of 125 ...

Astronomers have employed the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and the Neutron Star Interior Composition ...

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SETI combines cutting-edge radio astronomy, data science, and planetary research in a global effort to detect signs of ...

Relic Gravitons, by Massimo Giovannini of INFN Milan Bicocca, offers a timely and authoritative guide to one of the most ...

If you thought space was a quiet place, NASA just proved otherwise. The agency recently received a laser signal sent from 460 ...

Astronomers have discovered an unusually perfect spherical object within the Milky Way, puzzling researchers about its origin ...

Hubble is still going strong 35 years after it was launched into space. Celebrate its anniversary with some out-of-this-world images.

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In a radio signal, for example ... Every photon is characterized by wavelength (the distance from the crest of one wave to the crest of the next wave), by frequency (the number of wave cycles ...

Nuria Catalan Lasheras and Igor Syratchev explain why klystrons are strategically important to the future of the field – and ...