From the world's oldest known human fingerprint to genetic discoveries made using 2.2 million-year-old tooth enamel, this week's science news has taught us a lot about our ancient ancestors. But we've ...

Scientists investigating mysterious radio signals coming from outer space have finally uncovered where they might be coming from. For the past decade, these signals have been transmitting radio ...

Reginald Fessenden, transmitting the first radio signal on Christmas Eve 1906, marked a revolutionary moment. Before that, voices and music were never transmitted, and signals were mostly Morse code.

The Earth is constantly receiving space signals that contain vital information about extremely energetic phenomena. Among the most peculiar are brief pulses of extremely high-energy radio waves, known ...

Associate Professor of Physics Jonathan Pober has spent the past 20 years detecting faint astronomical signals in radio waves that can provide information about the early universe. This task can be ...

A brief but extremely powerful radio signal thought to have coming from deep space has now been traced to a dead NASA satellite in Earth orbit. Relay 2 was one of a pair of experimental communications ...

Gabriela Radulescu has received funding from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum as a Guggenheim Postdoctoral Fellow (2024-2025), from the American Institute of Physics for a Grant-in-Aid, ...