The Golden Dome program, which envisions space-based interceptors to defend the U.S. homeland from missile threats, depends on constant updates from sensors in orbit. Those updates must be transmitted ...

In the past three years, astronomers have discovered a mysterious new type of radio source. We call these long-period transients. These objects emit bright radio signals that repeat every few minutes ...

Cosmic radio pulses repeating every few minutes or hours, known as long-period transients, have puzzled astronomers since their discovery in 2022. Our new study, published in Nature Astronomy today, ...

For decades, satellites have been beaming data from Earth to space and back via radio waves. But with the growing number of spacecraft in orbit and the increasing quantities of data beaming back to ...

NASA’s latestCubeSat mission, CANVAS, has begun studying how radio waves, generated by lightning and human-made transmitters, travel from Earth’s surface into the vast expanse of space. This mission, ...