By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - In ancient mythology, the phoenix was a miraculous bird with a cyclical pattern of life and death, perishing in flames only to rise again from the ashes.

Researchers earlier this month said they used the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa to detect radio waves on Beta ...

Beta Pictoris b appears to have an aurora caused by a powerful magnetic field. If confirmed, it would be the first such field ...

Space is full of electromagnetic radiation like radio signals, but those signals are usually coming from stars or black holes ...

This summer, exoplanet science—the study of planets orbiting stars beyond our sun—took a big step forward. Reports of helium ...

While long-fabled technologies like Smell-O-Vision are still a long way off from ever being a reality, astronomers can still technically smell stuff deep in space without actually having to get a ...

When/if alien life ever cruises toward Earth in big spaceships, we’re probably not just going to see it; we’re going to hear it via narrow radio signals. If an extraterrestrial civilization wanted to ...

The Very Large Array is a collection of 27 radio antennas located near Socorro, New Mexico. Each antenna in the array measures 82 feet (25 m) in diameter and weighs about 507,000 pounds (230 metric ...

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