Astronomers are now using AI (artificial intelligence) to detect mysterious fast radio bursts coming from outer space. The technology was developed by Wael Farah, a doctoral student at Australia’s Swinburne University of Technology. Fast radio bursts (FRB) are brief pulses of radio waves coming from far outside our Milky Way galaxy, flaring with the power […]
Astronomers Reveal 1st Image of a Planet Being Formed Astronomers say they captured the 1st confirmed image of a planet forming in the dust swirling around a young star. Scientists said Monday the planet appears as a bright spot in the snapshot taken using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. Miriam Kepler […]
US and Russian Astronomers Listening for “ET” Radio Signals A curious radio signal picked up by a Russian telescope is probably not a transmission from an extraterrestrial civilization, but astronomers in California are taking a 2nd look anyway, the SETI Institute said Tuesday. A group of Russian astronomers last year detected what appeared to be […]