Statistics tools support the idea that all radio bursts may repeat if observed long enough.
Earth will meet a similar fate in 5 billion years.
The event was spotted in infrared data — also a first — suggesting further searches in this band could turn up more such bursts.
Robotic parts could be assembled into nimble spider bots for exploring lava tubes or heavy-duty elephant bots for transporting solar panels.
Saverio Cambioni discusses new results revealing the redirected asteroid Dimorphos to be a dust-trailing rubble-pile.
Current measurements of black holes are not enough to nail down how the invisible giants form in the universe, researchers say.
The observations could illuminate how supermassive black holes feed and grow.
New observations show the deepest parts of the quasar's plasma jet in a project led by MIT Haystack Observatory.
Astronomers have found a way to determine an asteroid’s interior structure based on how its spin changes during a close encounter with Earth.
The stars circle each other every 51 minutes, confirming a decades-old prediction.
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