A distant pulsar’s radio signal flickers as it passes through space, much like stars twinkle in Earth’s atmosphere. By ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

Scientists discovered 3I/ATLAS on July 1, 2025, making it the third interstellar object ever detected passing through our ...

What happens behind the scenes of a dinosaur exhibit? Short Wave host Regina Barber got to find out … by taking a trip to the ...

Check one, two; check one, two; is this thing on? Over on The Public Domain Review [Lucas Thompson] takes us for a spin through sound, as it was in Britain around and through the 1800s. The ...

Across the observable universe, galaxies advertise themselves in radio waves for familiar reasons-magnetic fields, cosmic ...

Recognizing the format's inherent strengths, such as its fast-paced and high-density content, low-cost and agile production, ...

Abstract: Internet big data provides increasingly rich technical means for science popularization, which has brought about a great change in the consumption mode of popular science books. The ...

NASA detected the most intense gamma-ray burst (GRB) in July 2025. While most such deep space signals last only a few seconds, this one went on for hours. Researchers have been able to figure out the ...

Radio astronomy has a pollution problem. Satellites thousands of kilometers overhead, designed to broadcast communications or relay data, are increasingly contaminating the frequencies astronomers use ...

The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission is currently on its way to Mercury, aiming to unveil the secrets held by the innermost planet of the Solar System. The radio tracking measurements, in combination with ...