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

Astronomers have found compelling evidence that at least some fast radio bursts originate from stars in binary systems rather than from isolated objects. An international group of astronomers, ...

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are intense, short-lived blasts of radio waves hailing from beyond the Milky Way that can emit the same amount of energy in just thousandths of a second that the sun takes ...

Through a systematic, multi-year monitoring with China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), Chinese scientists have, for the first time, witnessed the year-to-year evolution ...

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What is the origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs) and what can this teach us about the galaxies where they reside? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of ...

The discovery doubles the known population of these repeating super-energetic cosmic explosions. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

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