On a balmy August evening in 1977, an enormous radio telescope in a field in the middle of Ohio sat silently listening to the radio universe. Shortly after 10:00 PM, the Earth’s rotation slewed ...
As far as interesting problems go, few can really compete with the perennial question: “Are we alone?” The need to know if there are other forms of intelligent life out there in the galaxy is ...
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Astronomers may have finally solved the mystery of the “Wow! signal” — the closest we’ve ever come to finding extraterrestrial lifeOne late night in the summer of 1977, a large radio telescope near Delaware, Ohio, captured something that, for a fleeting ...
A few decades after the first wireless radio was invented, Guglielmo Marconi said Mars was trying to talk to Earth after he had detected radio wavelengths that seemed to long to be explained by ...
The Wow! signal was first detected in 1977 by astronomer Jerry Ehman using Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope. It was an extraordinarily strong radio signal lasting 72 ...
The source of the iconic Wow! signal has been a mystery to science for nearly 50 years. A group of researchers has been studying signals captured by the Arecibo telescope in order to finally ...
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