NASA is always keen to highlight the space agency’s many successes, and rightly so — those who pay for these...
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On November 8th, 2020 the Sun exploded. Well, that’s a bit dramatic (it explodes a lot) — but a particularly...
An Australian radio telescope picked up unusual signals back in 2019 and thinks they originated from Proxima Centauri, a scant...
Normally we like hearing about old military gear going on the surplus market. But if you encounter some late-model Russian...
Building radio receivers from scratch is still a popular project since it can be done largely with off-the-shelf discrete components...
Today the National Science Foundation released a pair of videos that document the collapse of the Arecibo Observatory with incredible...
A solar eclipse is coming up in just a few weeks, and although with its path of totality near the...
As many a radio amateur will tell you, ham radio is a hobby with as many facets as there are...
Few telescopes will get an emotional response from the general public when it is ultimately announced that they will be...
For the casual breadboard experimenter with a microcontroller and a few peripherals, there’s little concern over interconnects as a set...
The good news is that as of today RadioShack has officially been purchased by Retail Ecommerce Ventures (REV), giving the...
It is with a heavy heart that we must report the National Science Foundation (NSF) has decided to dismantle the...
Today we’re sad to report that one of the primary support cables at the Arecibo Observatory has snapped, nudging the...
The NOAA SWPC has issued a minor geomagnetic storm (G1) watch for this Thursday (22 October) as a high speed...
Ham radio operators love to push the boundaries of their equipment. A new ham may start out by making a...
In the 1850s British railway companies started introducing a single standard time to make their timetables consistent. Before that, every...
Most of us perceive time as an arrow, a one-way trip into the future. And while that’s true, nature has...
Once you move away from the usual software defined radio (SDR) dongles, you have only a few choices unless you...
While M17 might sound like a new kind of automatic rifle (as actually, it is), we were referring to an...
Breaking news today from the Solar Cycle 25 Prediction Panel! It is now official, the solar minimum between Solar Cycle...
Measuring the performance of antennas in absolute terms that can involve a lot of expensive equipment and specialized facilities. For...
There was a time when a ham radio set up sported many dials and switches and probably quite a few...
Nikola Tesla wanted to beam power without wires. NASA talked about building power-generating satellites that would do the same thing....
If you spend enough time trolling eBay for interesting electronic devices to take apart, you’re bound to start seeing suggestions...
There is a long history of spacecraft carrying ham radio gear, as the Space Shuttle, Mir, and the ISS have...
