New insights are emerging into one of astronomy’s most perplexing signals. An international research team led in part by ...

An artist's illustration depicts the CHIME's Outrigger array tracing RBFLOAT to its host galaxy. - Daniëlle Futselaar/MMT Observatory Astronomers have spotted the brightest fast radio burst yet coming ...

(CNN) — Astronomers have used mysterious fast radio bursts, or millisecond-long bright flashes of radio waves from space, to help them track down some of the missing matter in the universe. But the ...

China’s FAST telescope is the largest and most sensitive radio observatory ever built, capable of detecting signals other instruments could never hear. This video explores how it was engineered, what ...

Long-term observations reveal that at least some fast radio bursts are linked to magnetars orbiting companion stars.

Fast radio bursts, or bright, millisecond-long flashes of radio waves in space, are one of the most enduring mysteries of the cosmos - and they just became a little stranger. The video in the media ...

A repeating fast radio burst has just given up one of its biggest secrets. Long-term observations revealed a rare signal ...

For almost two decades, astronomers have detected extremely powerful, millisecond-long flashes of radio waves known as fast radio bursts (FRBs) from beyond our galaxy—and had no clue where they came ...

(CNN) — Astronomers have spotted the brightest fast radio burst yet coming from a nearby galaxy. Observations of this phenomenon, a powerful flash of radio waves that lasts only about a millisecond, ...

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