Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...

Astronomers have detected rare radio waves from a binary star system, challenging previous ideas about their origins. These ...

Most of them flare just once, randomly, making them impossible to predict, and very difficult to trace back to a source. Some ...

Astronomers have traced a starnge blast of radiowaves that repeats every 2 hours back to a dead star white dwarf magnetically ...

A blast of radio waves from the outskirts of an ancient galaxy challenges theories about what creates such bursts.

"This new fast radio burst shows us that just when you think you understand an astrophysical phenomenon, the universe turns around and surprises us." Astronomers have been forced to reassess the ...

Small stars that are far away tend to be faint and hard to see. De Ruiter and her colleagues used the Multiple Mirror ...

(CNN) — Mysterious fast radio bursts, or millisecond-long bright flashes of radio waves from space, have intrigued astronomers since the first detection of the phenomenon in 2007. The enigmatic ...

Scientists believe the two stars – a red dwarf and a white dwarf – are in orbit around each other so tightly that their ...

Scientists have traced a repeating fast radio burst (FRB) to the edge of an ancient galaxy where star formation has drastically dropped. Researchers are struggling to explain what caused it.

Scientists have detected mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs) from the outskirts of an 11 billion-year-old dead galaxy. This discovery challenges the belief that FRBs primarily originate from young ...