Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are notoriously difficult to study. They are flashes of radio light that can outshine a galaxy but ...

Fast radio bursts are brief and brilliant explosions of radio waves emitted by extremely compact objects such as neutron ...

Astronomers have detected thousands of these bursts, but how they are born has been a hotly debated topic. Some theories ...

Astronomers finally discovered the origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs)–mysterious and powerful bursts from outer space first ...

Scientists from an international team have used data from the German-British GEO600 detector to study a nearby neutron star ...

The fleeting cosmic firework likely originated within the turbulent magnetosphere surrounding a distant neutron star. Fast ...

But now, a rare burst has provided indications that FRBs likely originate near the star and that they share a feature with ...

Learn how researchers have interpreted the story of one particular fast radio burst that emerged from a neutron star 200 ...

Deep beneath Yellowstone National Park is an enormous volcanic crater hundreds of thousands of years old. Researchers have ...

Now scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have pinpointed the origins of one FRB and found it to be ...

Since the first fast radio burst (FRB) was discovered in 2007, astronomers have detected thousands of FRBs, whose locations range from within our own galaxy to as far as 8 billion light-years away ...