Astronomers have traced two mysterious fast radio bursts from space to wildly different places, which suggests the phenomenon ...

In this series, we cover provocative questions in astronomy. This week: the mysterious extragalactic signals known as Fast ...

A fast radio burst, or a strong pulse of energy, was tracked to a distant long-dead galaxy that astronomers never thought ...

Astronomers tracking mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs) stumbled upon an unexpected cosmic puzzle. A burst was detected from ...

The first trial of an Australian-developed technology has detected mysterious objects by sifting through signals from space ...

An upgrade to one of Australia's most capable radio telescopes is allowing astronomers to hunt for fast radio bursts (FRBs) ...

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the greater mysteries facing astronomers today, rivaled only by gravitational waves (GWs) ...

Astronomers have observed over a thousand of them to date; some come from sources that repeatedly emit FRBs, while others ...

Based on what scientists thought they knew about fast radio bursts, referred to in astronomy as FRBs, this type of galaxy should not contain the kind of star long thought to produce such bursts.