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 ...

A NASA satellite that’s been orbiting as space junk since 1967, Relay 2, emitted an unexpected, powerful radio burst that astronomers initially struggled to explain.

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.

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.

Astronomers have finally solved a year-long mystery that had them baffled after discovering a mysterious signal. Australian scientists have traced a radio burst detected last year to a defunct ...

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

A NASA satellite that’s been orbiting as space junk since 1967, Relay 2, emitted an unexpected, powerful radio burst that ...