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

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

Astronomers in Australia picked up a strange radio signal in June 2024 — one near our planet and so powerful that, for a ...

In the vast expanse of space, mysterious phenomena often leave even the most seasoned astronomers scratching their heads. One ...

Around midday on June 13 last year, my colleagues and I were scanning the skies when we thought we had discovered a strange ...

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

A communications satellite out of commission since 1965 is chirping at the Earth in radio frequencies. What is happening? We ...

Space is a vast, weird place, and even our brightest minds are still only just scratching the surface of all it has to tell us.

A NASA satellite that had been inactive for almost sixty years surprised astronomers by sending a signal in June 2024.

Some theories suggest they are produced by “magnetars” – the highly magnetised cores of massive, dead stars – or arise from ...

An object astronomers initially thought to be a high-speed burst of radio waves from deep space last year has been revealed ...