Large stars have cosmically short lifetimes, so the fact that this FRB occurred in an old, long-dead galaxy means that the ...

Fast radio bursts are mysterious and brief flashes of radio emissions that were thought to be produced by magnetars, highly ...

Instead of finding the radio burst in a region of young stars, researchers traced its origin to the outskirts of a “dead” ...

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New ...

Astronomers previously thought all FRBs were generated by magnetars formed through the explosions of very young, massive ...

Beyond our solar system, a bizarre world is raging with unimaginable winds. WASP-127b is a gas giant located over 500 ...

Astronomers have traced a mysterious fast radio burst to an unexpected place — an ancient, massive galaxy far removed from ...

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

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...

While neutron stars typically rotate in milliseconds or seconds, ASKAP J1839-075 takes an astonishing 6.45 hours to complete ...

The Universe really seems to be expanding fast. Too fast, even. A new measurement confirms what previous — and highly debated ...

Measurements of the distance to the Coma Cluster of galaxies find that it is millions of light years closer than the standard ...