On October 24, 2025, astronomers using South Africa's MeerKAT radio telescope made a historic breakthrough: they detected the first-ever radio signal from an object originating outside our solar ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. As "Die with a Smile" soars to the summit, Lady Gaga scores her ...

Reginald Fessenden, transmitting the first radio signal on Christmas Eve 1906, marked a revolutionary moment. Before that, voices and music were never transmitted, and signals were mostly Morse code.

Researchers propose that hydrogen gas from the early Universe emitted detectable radio waves influenced by dark matter. Studying these signals, especially from the Moon’s radio-quiet environment, ...

The audio of the first radio broadcast from the Kentucky Derby in 1925 has been lost to time, but The Courier Journal printed a word-for-word transcript of it in the newspaper. Radio as we think of it ...

Astronomers have characterized the largest-ever early-Universe radio jet. Historically, such large radio jets have remained elusive in the distant Universe. With these observations, astronomers have ...

The tragic death of 19-year-old Homewood resident Lester J. Wolf in 1926 has gone national as an episode of the radio show and podcast “Our American Stories,” hosted by Lee Habeeb. At the time of his ...