MeerKAT’s Pulsar Timing Array has revealed a surprising gravitational wave background, offering new insights into cosmic events.
A new effort to map the rumblings in spacetime caused by enormous black hole collisions paints a surprisingly loud and ...
Recent discoveries reveal that bursts of slow pulsing radio waves originate from a binary star system consisting of a red ...
Breakthrough Listen will scan the the skies with the aid of the MeerKAT Telescope. They are targeting a million nearby stars. [NASA's Planet-Hunting Probe Joins the Search for Intelligent Aliens] Cred ...
Over the last few years, though, radio astronomers discovered exactly 10 of these extremely slow signals. The most recent and ...
The Square Kilometer Array Observatory is destined to make waves (and measure some too!) so IFLScience hopped over to South ...
Astronomers have discovered a strange celestial object named GLEAM-X J162759.5−523504.3, which is sending out bursts of radio waves at regular intervals. The discovery was made using older data ...
A rare binary star system 5,000 light-years away emits puzzling 30-60 second radio pulses every 2.9 hours, challenging ...
A few years ago, a radio telescope operating out of the desert of Western Australia observed something very weird.
Radio pulsars —rapidly spinning neutron stars —are well-studied objects. They typically spin many times a second to a few ...
The event featured exciting guest speakers and hands-on learning experiences, making it an unforgettable night for the young participants. The 1st Edenvale Meerkats recently welcomed their friends ...