The scientists originally assumed that the signal came from a distant object in the cosmos, but further analysis revealed that the long-dead Relay-2 was in fact the culprit behind the mysterious pulse ...

Satellites that retire are deorbited into a graveyard orbit within 25 years of their missions ending. This is the case with ...

A relic from the dawn of the space age has suddenly—and unexpectedly—sprung back to life, catching the global scientific ...

A powerful and mysterious blast of radio waves that astronomers believed was a fast radio burst (FRB) from far beyond the limits of the Milky Way has turned out to be an emission from a long-dead NASA ...

Astronomers linked a powerful radio signal to a dead 1960s satellite. A powerful radio signal detected in 2024 was traced to a defunct 1960s satellite. Skip to content. NOWCAST 40/29 News Sunrise.

Astronomers have finally solved a year-long mystery that had them baffled after discovering a mysterious signal. Australian ...

Nearly a week after launch, space tracking systems were able to locate a mysterious satellite parked in an unusually low ...

As the satellite has been dead for nearly six decades, scientists believe that the signal must have come from an external factor, such as an electrostatic discharge or a micrometeorite.

The study went on to note that a cause for the pulse could have been that it was struck by a small piece of space rock, known as micrometeoroid. This can be between the sizes of millimetres or ...

Source of the radio waves was tracked to a location that matches that of NASA’s defunct Relay 2 spacecraft, which launched in ...