This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. As deep space probes continue to explore throughout the solar system and beyond, scientists on the ...

Astronomers believe they’ve uncovered the source behind mysterious cosmic signals known as fast X-ray transients (FXTs) — and it adds a grim twist to our understanding of the death of stars. Right as ...

In 1977, a mysterious 72-second space signal was detected. Was it aliens? Explore the Wow! Signal. In 1977, astronomers detected the Wow! Signal, a mysterious 72-second radio burst from deep space ...

NASA has sent test data nearly 10 million miles (16 million kilometers), encoded on a near-infrared laser. The Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment sent data to Earth from the Psyche ...

A strange sound from deep space was picked up by astronomers here on Earth the other day. And it apparently took them about eight million years to reach us. According to Earth.com, astronomers from ...

On March 19, one of NASA's Deep Space Network facilities — located in Canberra, Australia — entered its 60th year of relaying priceless information between scientists on Earth and the spacecraft they ...

NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications technology has successfully showed that data encoded in lasers could be reliably transmitted, received, and decoded after traveling millions of miles from ...