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

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

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

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

Fast radio bursts originate near neutron stars, revealing their magnetically chaotic environments and scintillation patterns.

Detections of fast radio bursts have ramped up in recent years, due to the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME). The radio telescope array comprises four large, stationary ...

Discover how astronomers are using innovative methods to unravel the origins of these fascinating cosmic phenomena.

The origin of a sparkling Fast Radio Burst (FRB) has been discovered in a galaxy 200 million light years away through the ...

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

MIT astronomers pinned down the origins of at least one fast radio burst, a brief and brilliant explosion of radio waves emitted by an extremely compact object. The team’s novel technique might also ...