"Fast radio bursts shine through the fog of the intergalactic medium, and by precisely measuring how the light slows down, we can weigh that fog, even when it's too faint to see." ...

Radio telescopes saw a strange burst of unknown energy in June 2024. Now we know it was from Relay 2, an early ...

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists affiliated with several institutions in Australia has found that a mysterious fast ...

Satellites that retire are deorbited into a graveyard orbit within 25 years of their missions ending. This is the case with ...

Scientists use fast radio bursts to locate half of the universe's ordinary matter dispersed in intergalactic space, solving a ...

Although most of these radio signals emanate from deep space and are not thought to be technological in origin, the burst of ...

Guided by fast radio bursts, astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics have mapped how ordinary matter is distributed in the ...

After taking a closer look, however, the team realized that the only viable source for the burst was NASA’s dead Relay 2, a ...

Fast radio bursts also may be able to help map the cosmic web in detail, Ravi said. This structure, largely made of dark matter, serves as the backbone of the universe, according to NASA.

Astronomers have finally deciphered the mystery of a peculiar bright burst in space, initially spotted using a large radio ...

Astronomers detected a powerful radio signal from near Earth, initially believed to be from a new space object. Check what ...

A NASA satellite believed to be inactive since the 1960s has shocked astronomers. It's not uncommon to have such missions go astray, but NASA workers were shocked when the satellit ...