One late night in the summer of 1977, a large radio telescope near Delaware, Ohio, captured something that, for a fleeting ...

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 uncover ...

On August 15, 1977, the Big Ear observatory in Ohio picked up an unusually intense radio signal. The signal was so unique that it prompted astronomer Jerry Ehman to draw a red circle around it and ...

One of the most enduring mysteries in astronomy may have just been solved — and sorry folks, it’s not aliens. In a paper posted last month to the arXiv preprint server, a team of astronomers report ...

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 seconds and was ...

For researchers seeking answers to the question of whether we are alone in the universe, one event nearly half a century ago lingers even today — the so-called "Wow! Signal" detected back in 1977.

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Recap: Back in 1977, a unique radio signal from deep space got astronomers all riled up about the possibility of first contact with intelligent aliens. It all began when astronomer Jerry Ehman ...