12 September 2018
Birth of new star from a supernova seen for first time
With beams of energetic radiation that shoot out from a fast spinning, incredibly dense but compact body, pulsars are ...
15 October 2018
SETI partners with MeerKAT to search for alien life
... in any previous search – for signs of extraterrestrial technology. "With this new instrument we'll be able to form many beams at the same time, obtaining high resolution data for multiple objects simultaneously," said Listen’s Principal Investigator...
19 July 2019
The day humanity walked on the Moon
..., which had a power output of just 20 watts – about the same as a refrigerator light bulb, to pick up the signal beamed from a quarter of a million miles away as planned (or nearly as planned). What happened next was a feat of human endeavour...
09 August 2019
Is the Milky Way's black hole waking up?
... been extensively studied across many wavelengths of light, from gamma waves down to radio waves. In fact it was a beam of radio wave emission in 1931 that first drew astronomers attention to the invisible void that sits in the...
12 August 2019
Communicating water-powered CubeSats tested in space by NASA
... downlinks have now become popular. However, not only must the onboard laser need to point its beam with sufficient accuracy and precision so that the target can receive as many photons as possible into the...
18 November 2019
First global geological map of Titan unveiled
Saturn’s Moon Titan captured the imagination of enthusiasts everywhere when Cassini and the Huygens probe beamed back pictures of a world littered with mountains and lakes due to its active methane-based hydrologic cycle. ...
