A Chinese astronomer on Oct. 31 claimed that in 50 years, China would lead the world in space exploration with the expansion of its “Sky Eye” program, a set of telescopic instruments used to observe deep space. “Sky Eye” is a single-dish 500-meter aperture spherical radio telescope (FAST) with a receiving area of around 30…

An astronomical phenomenon called fast radio bursts (FRBs) has been getting a lot of attention, as a new telescope is able to detect them far more often than was previously possible. These fast pulses of radio signals last only one to a few milliseconds, but on average they can release as much energy as our…