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

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

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

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

Space is a vast, weird place, and even our brightest minds are still only just scratching the surface of all it has to tell ...

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

Astronomers in Australia picked up a strange radio signal in June 2024 — one near our planet and so powerful that, for a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Once scientists had worked out the exact origin position of the signal, they realized that it was actually so close to Earth that it might well be a satellite, per New Scientist.They cross ...