A mysterious burst of radiowaves with more energy than the sun emits in a year has been traced back to a cosmic graveyard dead galaxy filled with ancient stars.

Most of them flare just once, randomly, making them impossible to predict, and very difficult to trace back to a source. Some ...

Fast radio bursts, strong pulses of energy detected in radio-wave frequencies, may be a common phenomenon in the cosmos, but their enigmatic origins are something astronomers are only beginning to ...

The burst's host galaxy is more than halfway across the observable universe and up to 100 times fainter than other host ...

A blast of radio waves from the outskirts of an ancient galaxy challenges theories about what creates such bursts.

"This new fast radio burst shows us that just when you think you understand an astrophysical phenomenon, the universe turns around and surprises us." Astronomers have been forced to reassess the ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Astronomers have traced a fast radio burst (FRB) back to its origin, and what they've found is unlike any other FRB host previously discovered. The signal appears to have ...