Unprecedented discovery of fast radio bursts challenges existing theories. Astronomers detect repeated signals from an ...

New research suggests that a massive, unidentified object might have passed through our Solar System billions of years ago, ...

For years, high-energy energy flashes have kept astronomers guessing, with one theory emerging most recently. A discovery now ...

The result is an impressive panorama, revealing approximately 200 million stars and extending six times the apparent diameter ...

Panorama of Nearest Galaxy Unveils Hundreds of Millions of Stars On a crisp, clear autumn night, you can see the most distant object visible to the naked eye — the stunning Andromeda Galaxy, our Milky ...

Just when you think you understand an astrophysical phenomenon, the universe turns around and surprises us,’ says scientist ...

The Andromeda galaxy is our closest galactic neighbour, barring dwarf galaxies that are gravitationally bound to the Milky ...

Fast radio bursts are mysterious and brief flashes of radio emissions that were thought to be produced by magnetars, highly magnetized rotating neutron stars. Yet magnetars appear primarily in young ...

The location of the fast radio burst, indicated by the oval outlines, is on the outskirts of a massive elliptical galaxy, the yellow oval at right.

Astronomer Calvin Leung was excited last summer to crunch data from a newly commissioned radio telescope to precisely pinpoint the origin of ...

The mystery of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) is more diverse than previously known after rapid emissions unexpectedly come from an ...

For the first time, astronomers have traced a fast radio burst (FRB) to the outskirts of an ancient, dead, elliptical galaxy — an unprecedented home ...