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Scientists suggest that today might finally bring the long-awaited confirmation of extra-terrestrial life!

In 1983, scientists sent a message from a Stanford University telescope towards a star 16.7 light years away. Experts are hoping a reply will arrive today from aliens on any nearby planets.

NAGANO--Astronomers are anxiously awaiting first contact from intelligent life to a message beamed into the cosmos 40 years ago.

　佐久市の佐久平総合技術高校（佐総(さっそう)）の食品加工部が１０月２７、２８日に兵庫県で開かれる日…

　秋の味覚を先端技術で守ろう――。ほろ苦い「小鮒（ブナ）の甘露煮」は長野県・佐久地域で郷土食として親しまれてきた。だが近年、小ブナは大量死などのため生産量が減り、食卓に上る機会が減っている。原因究明に向け、佐久市はIoT（モノのインターネット）技術を活用して水田の温度などを計測する取り組みを始めた。

夏は天の川が一番よく見える季節。天の川をまたぐようにして、「夏の大三角形」が形作られている＝うすだスタードーム撮影・提供 　今年4月、JAXAが開設した「美笹深宇宙探査用地上局」で新アンテナの運用が始まった。口径は約54メートルと巨大サイズ。同観測所にあるアンテナ（口径約64メートル）が老朽化したため、後継として建設された。「はやぶさ2」と交信�...

Using the NICER telescope on the International Space Station, researchers determined that the pulsar in the Crab Nebula releases millisecond-long pulses of radio waves, called giant radio pulses, that are accompanied by X-ray surges.

Giant radio pulses and X-ray surges are coming from the Crab Nebula The hauntingly beautiful Crab Nebula, located 6,500 light-years away in the Taurus constellation, is releasing an incredible amount of energy. The nebula is six light-years wide, and it’s a growing cloud of debris formed from a supernova explosion. (A light-year is six trillion miles). The light from this supernova first reached Earth in July 1054 and was witnessed by astronomers in Japan and China. When the star exploded, it...

 E-Mail IMAGE: The Crab Nebula, the six-light-year-wide expanding cloud of debris from a supernova explosion, hosts a neutron star spinning 30 times a second that is among the brightest pulsars in the... view more  Credit: Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Hester and A. Loll (Arizona State University) A global science collaboration using data from NASAs Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) telescope on the International Space Station has discovered X-ray surges accompanying radio bu...