Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advances and more. When NASA scientists tracked the orbits of two space rocks that recently approached Earth, they made a surprising discovery: One of the asteroids has a small moon. Astronomers regularly track the orbits of asteroids to… Read More »
Fast radio bursts shine in the sky above Earth. | Credit: NRAO Outreach/T. Jarrett (IPAC/Caltech); B. Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are intense, short-lived bursts of radio waves from beyond the Milky Way and can emit in a thousandth of a second the same energy that it takes the sun three days to emit.… Read More »
Astronomers have discovered the slowest spinning radio-emitting neutron star ever seen; It takes almost an hour to complete a full rotation. That might sound pretty fast, but these dead stars are known to spin so fast that some make 700 full rotations each. second. Even the slowest of the nearly 3,000 radio-emitting neutron stars, or… Read More »
There is a growing and passionate call for radio silence to be maintained on the far side of the moon. A first-of-its-kind international symposium is being held this week, turning up the volume to ponder the possibility of preserving real estate on the far side of the moon for exclusive scientific purposes. Even though the… Read More »
Late last year astronomers discovered a fascinating star system only 100 light years away from us. Neptune’s six subplanets orbit very close to their host star in mathematically perfect orbits, attracting the attention of scientists searching for alien technology or technosignatures, which they claim would provide convincing evidence of advanced life beyond them. Soil. To… Read More »
Scientists may have finally solved the mystery of cosmic ORCs, or “strange radio circles” as they are officially known, that are 10 times as wide as the Milky Way and large enough to encompass entire galaxies. A team of astronomers led by University of California San Diego Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics Alison Coil pointed… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Strange radio rings in space have been puzzling astronomers since the cosmic objects were first discovered in 2019. Now scientists think they may be able to understand what makes up these mysterious celestial structures, and… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Strange radio rings in space have been puzzling astronomers since the cosmic objects were first discovered in 2019. Now scientists think they may be able to understand what makes up these mysterious celestial structures, and… Read More »
In the 1930s, physicist and engineer Karl Jansky detected a continuous source of radio waves when he pointed his radio antenna at the center of our galaxy. After some analysis, scientists realized that these radio waves were emitted by something much farther away than our planet. Sun – but oddly enough, they were comparable in… Read More »