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Astronomers Detect Unusual Radio Signals From Nearby Magnetar That Are ‘Behaving in Complex Ways’

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Astronomers operating the CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope in Australia say they have detected unusual radio signals from Earth’s closest magnetar ...

Astronomers offer an explosive origin theory for giant odd radio circles in space

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Mysterious fast radio bursts in space keep getting stranger

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Record-breaking radio burst could help us find the universe’s missing matter

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An 8 billion-year-old rapid burst of radio waves, stemming from ancient colliding galaxies, could help astronomers solve the mystery of ...

Signatures of alien technology could be how humanity first finds extraterrestrial life

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If an alien were to look at Earth, many human technologies – from cell towers to fluorescent light bulbs – ...