Scientists are starting to hear a new kind of message from far across the universe, the question is what (or who) is sending it? In 2001, the Parkes Observatory, a massive 210-foot radio telescope in ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. First discovered by a stroke of sheer luck while combing ...

In spring 2007, David Narkevic, a physics student at West Virginia University, was sifting through reams of data churned out by the Parkes telescope—a dish in Australia that had been tracking pulsars, ...